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RE: OK - I was giving Paul a bad time, but. . .

"Of course, as always in music, we're reduced to an inadequate linguistic shorthand when we all try to describe our musical experiences."

I think that pretty much sums it up. I know what I hear, but I can only describe it in the vaguest terms. A critic or musicologist could no doubt do better. For what it's worth, when I heard her play this, my reaction was "What is this, some kind of waltz?" Her interpretation is, to my ears, just plain wrong.

I think that you have to have some familiarity with a genre to sense when the style is right or not, and fully judge the skill of a performer. I find it's just like audio in that respect: the more you listen, the more you hear.

How's this for turnabout? Tatum's version of Massenet's Elegy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_lCL04CT_Q

A garden variety virtuoso can't hope to equal that technique, it would take a Hofmann or Horowitz to do so. Hence my remark about masochism.

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