30 Friday Apr 2010
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Valentina Lisitsa.
I was thinking last night that if I were to have
dinner with pianist Valentina Lisitsa and she pulled
up a knife to cut her steak that I would like totally
freak out. I would have no choice, I would have to
ask to cut it for her. I mean, what would happen if
she accidentally cut one of her fingers?
I just couldn't stand it.
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Piano lids?:D
:doh: Brilliant! We'll add that to the list. And we'll have one of our Society members volunteer to go around with her and open and close the lids. :up:
PS.The Society also covers can lids, pop tops, fingernail clippers, hammers, and other instruments of digital destruction.:wizard:
I have a feeling I know who will volunteer for that job.:D
@ Star.Ah, I must stay home and take care of my No. 1 girl — Sasha. :love: Or, by her Russian name, Sasha Fartina Gottataluvya. :p Besides, she has a husband. So basically what I'd be doing is just opening and closing the lids. :cry:I will sincerely cut her steak for her at dinner, though. 🙂
He boxed while he played the piano? Wow, that's amazing! :pNo that is interesting. Never knew. :up:
Roger Williams was a pianist and he was also a boxer. Did both at the same time. Go figure.
😆 :lol:Delicate. Right. :p
delicate girls with delicate hands, shouldn't do any manual work 😀 :devil:
Did you ever hear about Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's knife accident? :yikes:
No, tell me all about it! Hope you are well, Naomi.
I heard an interview with Nadja several years ago on NPR about how she was cutting veggies or something & sliced part of a finger off! They rushed her to the hospital & re-attached it. :yikes: From wikipedia: "In 1994, Solerno-Sonnenberg badly injured one of her fingers in a kitchen accident, a potentially career-ending injury. Her fingertip was surgically re-attached, and by 1996 she returned to performing."I'm doing ok & hope you are as well. Not sure why but I no longer receive updates on your blog even though you are a friend. Opera's consipring against me. 😆
Thanks Naomi. A harrowing story. I admit I had to look up Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg as I had never listened to her. Listened to her performance of Rachmaninov's "Vocalise" on youTube. Also read through the comments. :p The thing with these concert performers at that level is only a narrow margin separates them from each other, subtle differences. At least in most cases. You have artists jump out from the pack, and there's always somebody at the top of the pack. There the differences could be obvious (to most). As for Nadia she reminds me a lot of Perlman. That's about all I can say as I don't keep up with the concerts violinists anymore. In any case, I enjoyed the piece.
Glad to have accidentally "introduced" you to her. I :heart: Baroque music, but don't follow individual classical performers.