{"id":1880,"date":"2015-03-26T18:06:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T01:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2018-03-07T18:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T02:08:58","slug":"why-piano-students-should-know-jacqueline-du-pres-playing-of-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1880","title":{"rendered":"Why Piano Students Should Know Jacqueline Du Pre\u2019s Playing of\u2014Piano!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrad.com\/cpt-latests\/jacqueline-du-pre-daniel-barenboim-prepare-recording\/\"> Because it\u2019s a delight<\/a>. The Curmudgeon comments, \u201cPlaying the cello, she sometimes seemed to be playing a different instrument from others. It\u2019s interesting, though, that her piano-playing showed <!--more--> the same musicality as her cello playing, including the long line, the uninterrupted continuity, the authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe played the piano darned well, but could not possibly have put the time into it that she devoted to the cello, so not a fully developed technique. Still, the music comes through; and it\u2019s memorized; and she\u2019s talking to Barenboim while playing. She was a one-in-a-bazillion talent. At one point, she auditioned for Rostropovich, the objective being to study with him. He told her, \u2018You already play better than I do; I have nothing to teach you.\u2019 Maybe an over-statement, but it\u2019s known how much he thought of her. That this genius died so young is hard to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like all enthusiasts, I had to get in my two cents worth; and I wrote, \u201cAw, come on, Curmudge! Her piano-playing does more than just \u2018come through.\u2019 It\u2019s superbly musical and effortlessly pianistic\u2026 It sings, it dances; one isn\u2019t used to hearing Kuhlau played so well. Be honest: Don\u2019t you think any teacher would leap to have her as a student, unless the teacher felt unworthy of such a student, or incompetent to teach such a gigantic gift? How seldom does any music-making convey such direct pleasure!\u201d<span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it\u2019s a delight. The Curmudgeon comments, \u201cPlaying the cello, she sometimes seemed to be playing a different instrument from others. It\u2019s interesting, though, that her piano-playing showed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}