Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Oct 10, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Ken Iisaka wrote: >> On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Afterswift@aol.com wrote: >> > In a message dated 10/10/2007 6:40:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >> > lug-request@leica-users.org writes: >> > >> > Any serious student of piano music knows that Alkan was hardly >> > obscure! >> > >> > And what does his religion have to do with any appreciation of >> > his works? >> >> it's important... >> >> he could only play with one hand... >> >> he had a Kosher pickle in the other... >> >> Steve > > I believe that the Grandes Etudes, Op. 76 was composed over > lunch. While writing the first etude for left hand, he had a dill > pickle in the right hand. He ate his sandwich with his left hand > while writing the second etude for the right hand. After finishing > lunch, furious that his lunch wasn't big enough, he wrote the third > etude for both hands. > > http://imslp.net/images/c/c2/Alkan-Trois_grandes_%C3%A9tudes.pdf that's a riot Ken... I write my little note above ...not out of disrespect, but to be facetious, forgot the smiley, but didn't know about what you say... I take it you are a pro musician, ? performer.. I have been listening to some of the Alkan music...may buy one or to of the M-A Hamelin discs... Steve > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information