Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information