Alan Rusbridger
Autor/a de Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Alan Rusbridger
The "Guardian" Year 42 ("Guardian" Books) 1 exemplars
Breaking News 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Bedside 'Guardian' 30: A Selection from The Guardian, 1980-1981 (1981) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Rusbridger, Alan Charles
- Data de naixement
- 1953-12-29
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
Oxford, UK
Washington, DC, USA - Educació
- University of Cambridge (Magdalene College)
- Professions
- journalist
editor
academic administrator - Relacions
- Mackie, Lindsay (spouse)
- Organitzacions
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University
The Guardian
The Observer
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 11
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 416
- Popularitat
- #58,580
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 14
- ISBN
- 33
- Llengües
- 1
- Pedres de toc
- 11
On the other hand, I came away from the story as a whole with conflicted feelings. Yes, it is admirable to attempt to learn an extremely difficult and canonical piece (Chopin's Ballade #1, G Minor), but why set an arbitrary time deadline? This is music that demands time and attention to bring to performance level, particularly for an “amateur”. Would it have been all that bad to take an extra year or two, or five? Yes, he’s in his mid-fifties, at the time of writing, but come on. And it must be nice to own both a Steinway and a Fazioli, and have easy access to some of the finest pianists in the world so that he can pick their brains about the Ballade. Actually, these parts were pretty interesting. As is Alan’s chronicles of his day job - Editor in Chief of one of the UK’s premier newspapers, the Guardian. Suffice it to say he is extremely busy in his day job and doesn’t have a lot of time to spend practicing. All the more reason to take more time.
I definitely felt for him when he relates the story of his first attempt to perform the Ballade at “piano camp”, precisely one year after resolving to play it. It’s a disaster, and I couldn’t help thinking of all the easier (and perhaps no less beautiful) Chopin repertoire he could have learned and played very well at the camp, during that time period. He did get some great advice from the guest teacher however, which sets him on the path of his TRIUMPHANT performance of the Ballade for selected family and friends some four months later. Spoiler - he gets through it pretty well. So very good for him, and the inspiration he may be giving to anyone who really wants to go for something really, really hard, but I won't be doing what he did because:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSFNl4roGlI
… (més)