OMG they shrunk the Maestro! WTF Carnegie? Look at the little baby piano I will play for yoooouuuuu!
Daniel Barenboim played Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I & II at NYC's Carnegie Hall, each one a successive night of Saturday, January 20 and Sunday January 21, 2007. He reflected on his earliest musical impressions of Bach's WTC:
"At the age of 12 I moved to Paris to study harmony and counterpoint with Nadia Boulanger. When I arrived for my first lesson, The Well-Tempered Clavier was on the music stand of the grand piano. She turned the pages forward and back; finally she settled on the Prelude in E minor from Book One and said: 'Right, my boy, now play it for me in A minor.' She held a wooden ruler in her hand and every time my fingers played a wrong note she tapped them with it. Thus, The Well-Tempered Clavier became the foundation for everything."
Happy 50th anniversary at Carnegie Hall, Maestro; may you play and conduct for 50 more. The Opera Chic "Barenboim Plays Carnegie" Flickr set is here.
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cya in meeeylan 4 caffe' @same table @teh principe di savoia bar ok? hugs OC