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In Reply to: RE: Did you mean Schubert, rather than Schumann? posted by rbolaw on September 11, 2014 at 19:21:50
"Too easy for amateurs, too hard for professionals."
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I will be shocked--SHOCKED! if it turns out not to be original to him.
Maestro Goldovsky was as far as I know the only Schnabel student who would every now and then play the piano using a grapefruit held in his left hand.
It can be done, as long as what you want is boogie-woogie.
ATB,
jm
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"Too easy for children, too difficult for adults" is the way I remember that line, though your version works just as well. Funny, a quick google search, which is definitive scholarly research (not), shows an attribution to Schnabel himself.
It's just too easy to put great lines and famous people together. Even Yogi Berra had to concede (and he actually did say this, I saw him interviewed), "I never really said most of the things I said."
Boris Goldovsky had dreams of piano stardom but when he knocked on the door of the Curtis Institute as a refugee from Hitler, he was told that the only opening was for an opera coach, and so he assured them that opera was his first love, and promptly went back to his new digs and asked his mother to tell him all he needed to know about opera.
He went on to put on the US premieres of Peter Grimes and of Idomeneo.
ATB,
jm
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