[78-L] Gershwin 1, Mutter 0

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I can't help but wonder if this was something that EMI forced her into 
to promote the CD release.

joe salerno


On 10/2/2011 6:37 AM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> On 10/1/2011 10:27, David Lewis wrote:
>> If you are not very well disposed to Herbert von Karajan, and I realize that Mr. Lennick is not so, it is
>> easy to dismiss ASM's talents as a violinist; she was indeed his protege, and her first husband was
>> HvK's personal secretary, a man much older than she was at the time they were married.
>>
>> However, I have heard her under far better conditions, in the Brahms sonatas at the Chandler, and
>> ASM is overall an outstanding, world class violinist. I have never found her very effective in pop violin
>> lit, whereas she excels is in things like the Thais Meditation, the Waxman Carmen Fantasy, the Sibelius
>> Concerto.
>>
>> This television appearance was indeed a poor outing for ASM. It seems every time a classical violinist
>> does American TV that feel they have to trot out this well worn Heifetz transcription. In all due respect
>> to Maestro Previn, he got off to a rough start in the accompaniment but had warmed up by the bridge;
>> ASM was never able to regain, or even to really gain, her footing in this performance. Anne-Sophie is
>> a very nice and unpretentious person and I was really sorry that it went this way for both of them.
>>
>>
> I retract my rash statement.
>
> Perhaps you are right. Two things seem rather obvious; the piece was
> rushed, as if it were the minute waltz done in 45 seconds, a symptom of
> being placed just before a break. And she looked harried, uncomfortable
> and unhappy, perhaps tired. Her face showed what looked more like a
> grimace than any sort of passion. A big, though pretty girl, her setting
> was not thought out at all. Too far from the piano, she appeared out of
> scale. As someone stated, a bad showing. And not her fault.
>
> Letterman should be ashamed, not her. He literally threw her out on the
> stage.
>

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Joe Salerno