http://www.piano-and-cello-and-friends.com/videoblog The Purpose of this videoblog is to advocate, demonstrate, shine a light on, and encourage The Beautiful Music Possibility. By "Beautiful Music," we refer to two things: (1) choices and actions which are "music to our ears," which become part of the fabric of Blessings that we all receive ... the sorts of choices and actions which are pleasing to "the Chief Musician"; and (2) the glorious music of such instruments as the piano and cello, music which reminds us of and calls us toward excellence, beauty, and service ... toward this end, we feature Classical music, as well as Gospel music, jazz, ragtime, Boogie Woogie, and much more. We also invite you to join us in discussing the role of Beautiful Music in creating community, health, education, effectiveness around conflict, and inspiration. Wed, 04 May 2011 14:31:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.piano-and-cello-and-friends.com/videoblog/vote-here-1a/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Diane DeNee Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:11:28 +0000 http://piano-and-cello-and-friends.com/videoblog/vote-here/#comment-2 I listened to Maksim's performance first. It was crisp, sensitive and well executed. Yet, though his technique was flawless, there was something missing, a certain authenticity perhpas. Lang lang's performance was like taking a beautiful poem and converting all the words to a mass of letters, without ryhme or meter, like taking a novel and disolving all its theme and sentences into a mash of leters without meaning. The audiance applauded loudly but his playing seemed filled with anger and tension. His "interpretation" disolved melody and harmony into a veritable mass of indistinguishable notes. It was as if he was having a tantrum, pounding the keyboard with his fists. How easily an audianewce is fooled by so much drama, signifying nothing. Chris's recording lacked the advantages of a finer recording devise that would've assisted the sound. However I found his playing to be warm and sensitive, beautifully interpreted and beyond the paradigm of "performance" which is embued with various levels of ego involvement. Listening to Chris play Liszt's Haungarian Rhapsody no 2 conveyed a sense of joy and delight in the beauty and dynamic flow of the piece. I listened to Maksim’s performance first. It was crisp, sensitive and well executed. Yet, though his technique was flawless, there was something missing, a certain authenticity perhpas. Lang lang’s performance was like taking a beautiful poem and converting all the words to a mass of letters, without ryhme or meter, like taking a novel and disolving all its theme and sentences into a mash of leters without meaning. The audiance applauded loudly but his playing seemed filled with anger and tension. His “interpretation” disolved melody and harmony into a veritable mass of indistinguishable notes. It was as if he was having a tantrum, pounding the keyboard with his fists. How easily an audianewce is fooled by so much drama, signifying nothing. Chris’s recording lacked the advantages of a finer recording devise that would’ve assisted the sound. However I found his playing to be warm and sensitive, beautifully interpreted and beyond the paradigm of “performance” which is embued with various levels of ego involvement. Listening to Chris play Liszt’s Haungarian Rhapsody no 2 conveyed a sense of joy and delight in the beauty and dynamic flow of the piece.

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