[78-L] Gershwin 1, Mutter 0

[David Lennick]

Could be that Letterman's shtick with the box set threw her off. But they have 
such things as rehearsals, so I dunno..is the Friday show still taped a few 
days earlier, crammed into a day with another show?

By the way, Ferrante and Teicher did The Minute Waltz in under 45 seconds, and 
very well too, on I've Got A Secret.

dl

On 10/2/2011 9:38 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> And Letterman fumbled all over the place with the CD set treating it as
> a totally frivolous event. Perhaps he felt forced into it as well and
> really wasn't excited about having this classical musician on his show.
> Perhaps he thought comedy would help hold the audience. Maybe that's why
> they put these things at the end, so they don't lose the TV audience in
> the middle of the program. At the end, they care far less as the show is
> already over anyway. In this case many people were flipping channels
> just a little bit earlier than usual.
>
> I personally don't care for Letterman, I don't find him funny and I've
> heard him do so really bad interviews.
>
> joe salerno
>
> On 10/2/2011 8:16 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>> If all you've seen is the YouTube clip, there was more..not of Mutter, but a
>> silly setup with Letterman holding up a huge box set of ASM's 35 year career
>> (or whatever it is), coming over to her with the box set etc. And her
>> appearance was announced in the daily TV listings. A music item is always the
>> last thing on the program. But yes, she may have been asked to speed it up.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 10/2/2011 7:37 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.
>>>