{"id":4932,"date":"2013-01-04T18:49:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2013-01-04T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:49:12","slug":"feats-of-memorization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/feats-of-memorization\/","title":{"rendered":"Feats of memorization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/02\/recent-listening-5-hungarian-modern-jazz\/szabo-daniel-hands\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2876\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2876\" alt=\"Szabo-Daniel-hands\" src=\"https:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Szabo-Daniel-hands-300x205.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnthony Tommasini <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/01\/arts\/music\/memorizations-loosening-hold-on-concert-tradition.html\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a> in the IHT on the trend to allow concert pianists to play from music, instead of playing recital solos and concertos from memory.\u00a0 A good thing too!\u00a0 While playing from memory is an impressive feat to watch, it certainly takes additional\u00a0 practice effort to achieve:\u00a0 I would rather good performers played more different music than that they played a smaller collection from memory.<br \/>\nI saw Angela Hewitt play the Bach 48 from memory in Cottonopolis a few years ago.\u00a0\u00a0 At the first concert, a woman\u00a0 in the front row was reading from a miniature score.\u00a0 After the first few preludes and fugues, Ms Hewitt quietly asked the woman to put her score away, as the page turning was distracting.\u00a0 My guess is that the page-breaks were happening at places other than where Ms Hewitt had memorized.\u00a0\u00a0 (As an aside, her performance was very good but her interpretations undermined by <em>rubato<\/em>.\u00a0 I prefer my Bach straight, not with flavoured mixers.)<br \/>\n<em>Note:\u00a0<\/em> The hands shown are those of <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/02\/recent-listening-5-hungarian-modern-jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Szabo Daniel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Tommasini writes in the IHT on the trend to allow concert pianists to play from music, instead of playing recital solos and concertos from memory.\u00a0 A good thing too!\u00a0 While playing from memory is an impressive feat to watch, it certainly takes additional\u00a0 practice effort to achieve:\u00a0 I would rather good performers played more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,33,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts","category-hands","category-music","p1","y2013","m01","d04","h18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}