Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ken, (Bad) Juries can be very snobbish ;-) BTW, looking at your photos this seens to be a very interesting bunch of people you're in. Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 10-okt-07, om 22:34 heeft Ken Iisaka het volgende geschreven: > To help bring things back to topic, I dumped the pictures from the > week in Fort Worth at: > > http://picasaweb.google.com/kiisaka/Cliburn2007 > > This was just a straight dump of all photographs I took for > participants to download for themselves. No editing, no > corrections, no cropping, nada. They were just exported from > Capture One as JPEGs. The majority of them were taken using my M8 > and Summilux-M 35mm ASPH, but also used Elmarit-M 28mm, Biogon-ZM > 21mm, Summicron-M 50mm, and Noctilux-M 50mm. > > My most triumphant moment came, after the winners were announced > then one of the jury members, a professor of piano at a very > prestigious conservatory came to me later in fury, saying, "Who is > Alkan? I don't know zee composer. Why on earth did you play > Alkan? Zee rest of your programme vas vonderful, but why did you > play Alkan?" > > I guess what she was trying to say was that I could have had a > crack at placing in the top 3, but ruined my chance by playing > Alkan. At that moment, I realised that my world of music as an > amateur was far greater and bigger than hers. I wish I told her > that "I play Alkan because he is the most important and neglected > Jewish composer of all times." > > > On Wednesday, October 10, 2007, at 01:04PM, "Steve Unsworth" > <lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> wrote: >> It explains why Ken looked a little, shall I say 'nervous', before >> he began >> <grin> >> >> Steve >> >> >> On 10/10/07 20:53, "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Philippe Orlent wrote: >>> >>>> LOL. >>>> >>>> >>>> And about Ken: >>>> >>>> <dabble.com/node/12693324> >>>> >>>> <http://vancliburn.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/he-played-brilliantly- >>>> with-fishy-fingers/> >>> >>> >>> wonderful fascinating.. >>> >>> >>> you go Ken...! >>> >>> Good luck, >>> Steve >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >