[Leica] Pianist, age 92, plays Bach

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Peter,

Very nice! My wife plays some of the Well-tempered Clavier on the piano, and
the clavichord and the harpsichord.  It must have been a good memory.  We
made the trek from Oklahoma to Carnegie Hall to hear Claudio Arrau's 90th
birthday concert with the Warsaw Philharmonic. As I recall, he played a
great Emperor, but then we went over to the Russian Tearoom after the
concert and got wasted with various members of the orchestra (my wife is
Polish and can converse up to a point in the evening, thank God for taxi's),
so that might not be completely accurate.

Ken   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Peter Klein
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 6:51 PM
> To: lug@leica-users.org; leica@freelists.org
> Subject: [Leica] Pianist, age 92, plays Bach
> 
> This weekend, we attended a lecture-recital by 92 year-old pianist
> Randolph
> Hokanson.  At this age, he no longer does virtuoso pyrotechnics.  But he
> can still play, and well.  Bach is his favorite, the music he "chooses to
> live with" at his stage of life.  Over the course of three weekends, he
> talked about and performed the entire Book I of "The Well-Tempered
> Clavier." What a delightful gentleman!  Completely engaged with life,
> music
> and people.  A real inspiration.
> 
> I took the Canon 50/1.2 along. I didn't shoot while he was playing, but I
> got something that looks as if I had. When intermission concluded, he
> struck a chord to get everyone's attention, and I was ready:
> http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/musicians/L1002312HokansonChord.htm
> 
> And here he is at the conclusion of the concert:
> http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/musicians/L1002314HokansonBow.htm
> 
> The recital took place at the Sherman-Clay piano store in downtown
> Seattle.  The overhead spot-lighting was not ideal.  The background is a
> mural-sized photograph of a concert hall mounted on the wall behind the
> piano.  Actually, we were sitting on folding chairs in the showroom floor.
> 
> The 50/1.2 Canon also came in handy while riding to the concert:
> http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/currentpics/L1002300KatyaNiteDrive.htm
> 
> And finally, this is what happens when you let glass artist Dale Chihuly
> get his hands on a Steinway:
> http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/L1002319-prf.jpg
> 
> It's very, uh, green. . .
> http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/L1002302-prf.jpg
> 
> M8 at 320 ISO and minus 1 stop EV compensation. 50/1.2 Canon LTM for all
> but the "inside the piano" shot, which was taken with the 35/1.4 Summilux
> ASPH.
> 
> Enjoy!
> --Peter
> 
> 
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