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Subject: [Leica] Re: OT Alkan
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed Oct 10 12:40:22 2007
References: <W422491477049851192042640@webmail34>

On Oct 10, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Ken Iisaka wrote:

>> On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Afterswift@aol.com wrote:
>>  > In a message dated 10/10/2007 6:40:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>>  > lug-request@leica-users.org writes:
>>  >
>>  > Any serious student of piano music knows that Alkan was hardly
>>  > obscure!
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>>  > And what does his religion have to do with any appreciation of
>>  > his works?
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>>  it's important...
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>>  he could only play with one hand...
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>>  he had a Kosher pickle in the other...
>>
>> Steve
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>  I believe that the Grandes Etudes, Op. 76 was composed over  
> lunch.  While writing the first etude for left hand, he had a dill  
> pickle in the right hand.  He ate his sandwich with his left hand  
> while writing the second etude for the right hand.  After finishing  
> lunch, furious that his lunch wasn't big enough, he wrote the third  
> etude for both hands.
>
> http://imslp.net/images/c/c2/Alkan-Trois_grandes_%C3%A9tudes.pdf



that's a riot Ken... I write my little note above ...not out of  
disrespect, but to be facetious, forgot the smiley,

but didn't know about what you say...


I take it you are a pro musician, ? performer..

I have been listening to some of the Alkan music...may buy one or to  
of the M-A Hamelin discs...

Steve
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