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Subject: [Leica] Alkan
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu Oct 11 12:43:01 2007
References: <W47798644187471192048458@webmail28> <A0F1FBA3-E2A8-4128-823B-618FA33A5127@pandora.be>

On Oct 11, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Philippe Orlent wrote:

> 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.



as I recall Ken the VC competition is every 4 years, so I assume you  
competed in 2005, correct?


Do you plan to compete again in 2009 ?


What repertoire will you prepare?

thanks,

Steve



>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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In reply to: Message from ken at iisaka.org (Ken Iisaka) ([Leica] Re: Alkan)
Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] Re: Alkan)