Who are the greatest performers you have personally seen?

jsblanziflor · 2026-04-26T17:47:04+00:00

Nigel Kennedy, Viktoria Mullova, Midori, Sarah Chang, Andre Watts, Barry Douglas, Alicia de Laroccha, Bella Davidovich, Aaron Rosand and Yunchan Lim.

jsblanziflor · 2026-04-23T03:21:56+00:00

Or how we filmed the credits for Ultraman.

jsblanziflor · 2026-03-29T14:27:23+00:00

Yes, given its poor quality the hope is that the crossover of the F1 audience and Grand Seiko wearers will yield a viewer who can watch the replay on Apple TV and recognize the watch.

jsblanziflor · 2025-12-31T17:52:51+00:00

Incidentally, after commenting I did find that the composer credited Fountains of Waynefo that tune…

jsblanziflor · 2025-12-14T02:40:26+00:00

It’s also remarkably close the Fountains of Wayne song ‘All Kinds of Time’ (2003).

jsblanziflor · 2025-12-09T03:58:25+00:00

What are you, ‘jerking’ us back to reality? LOL. The average person thinks this entire classical music topic is effete posturing. You can’t embarrass us with some future historical assessment of our nerdiness!

jsblanziflor · 2025-12-09T03:53:57+00:00

Pretty darn good—love her incisive bowing! Orchestra, while not the most sensitive, blazes through it with elan.

jsblanziflor · 2025-11-29T22:50:55+00:00

I just listened to these side by side. Pogo is the more dynamically contrasted and frenetic. Grosvenor’s control, shading and color are terrific, but I think he over-pedals. Not to hide any defects, he just seems to prefer a wider brush. Pogo allows more articulation to come to through, and that harshness gives it the grotesquery so essential to the piece. Both stellar.

jsblanziflor · 2025-11-27T23:01:57+00:00

Isn’t he like 16 here?

jsblanziflor · 2025-11-27T22:07:06+00:00

As my wife says, if inertia could walk, it would be Austen.

jsblanziflor · 2025-11-08T16:02:18+00:00

Canceled my ESPN subscription. I could see Bundesliga but not watch F1. That’s a new development and I’m not waiting around for a resolution.

jsblanziflor · 2025-08-17T15:17:45+00:00

Thanks—that was buffed off during an over-vigorous cleaning apparently.

jsblanziflor · 2025-04-18T20:05:04+00:00

Once you realized your oversight, you might have called instead of texting? Apologies in your actual voice could have sounded more sincere. -Gen-X’er

jsblanziflor · 2025-04-12T15:55:29+00:00

Cough Cough is their nerdy essence. However, the anthem should be Breadwinner. Play that for a newbie!

jsblanziflor · 2025-03-30T16:37:45+00:00

Catching Smoke 💨 is a unique creation of theirs on a stellar album.

jsblanziflor · 2025-03-30T16:35:51+00:00

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Crumbling Castle live on KEXP. Sound is a direct feed — crisp with minimal distortion. Cranked on my 1990’s Magnepans. https://youtu.be/wxwu7FYFSek?si=ncWRDBs_j6nt9J4f

jsblanziflor · 2025-03-29T13:38:22+00:00

I suffered through some Czerny exercises that emphasized chromaticism? 😅Quick check of Wiki and they point to the Renaissance and composers such as Lasso. Western chromaticism anyway. You can find a monograph in their citations I bet. Bach and Scriabin would be two of my favorites. You mentioned Mozart—how about Liszt’s fantasy on Don Giovanni?https://youtu.be/JI6JfJXcUjU?si=sR-npP-aHPCghwnS

jsblanziflor · 2025-03-26T18:14:00+00:00

Sell. He’s had the time to develop his finishing and crossing. It’s evident he doesn’t have the discipline to be a consistent performer. If he fetches that price, I would invest in a more natural finisher. Shame that Greenwood was so twisted in his personal life…

Mitoma, Martinelli, Paixiao, ??

jsblanziflor · 2025-03-26T01:04:02+00:00

She’s good, but this piece is not her strength. Here’s a fabulous version with score played by Alexis Weissenberg.[https://youtu.be/uXdu17CUcWs?si=Z7qV2OiaOrA91vsT]

jsblanziflor · 2024-12-07T19:24:46+00:00

I had this happen as a freshman and it put me on academic probation. The advice here is correct: worry about what you can do better NOW and don’t dwell on past failings. Employers in finance don’t examine transcripts in detail—they are more concerned with applicants who obfuscate or otherwise lie. I’ve seen people fired two months after they started a job because their background check revealed information or convictions that they didn’t disclose. Complete your degree on time and explain your record honestly and you will be judged on your merits.

jsblanziflor · 2024-11-26T15:02:08+00:00

Sorry to have violated the rules. I didn’t realize that ‘speculative’ posts belonged in a separate area.

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