Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/11

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Alkan
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Oct 11 12:31:48 2007
References: <W47798644187471192048458@webmail28>

Hi Ken,

(Bad) Juries can be very snobbish ;-)

BTW, looking at your photos this seens to be a very interesting bunch  
of people you're in.

Thanks for showing,
Philippe



Op 10-okt-07, om 22:34 heeft Ken Iisaka het volgende geschreven:

> To help bring things back to topic, I dumped the pictures from the  
> week in Fort Worth at:
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/kiisaka/Cliburn2007
>
> This was just a straight dump of all photographs I took for  
> participants to download for themselves.  No editing, no  
> corrections, no cropping, nada.  They were just exported from  
> Capture One as JPEGs. The majority of them were taken using my M8  
> and Summilux-M 35mm ASPH, but also used Elmarit-M 28mm, Biogon-ZM  
> 21mm, Summicron-M 50mm, and Noctilux-M 50mm.
>
> My most triumphant moment came, after the winners were announced  
> then one of the jury members, a professor of piano at a very  
> prestigious conservatory came to me later in fury, saying, "Who is  
> Alkan?  I don't know zee composer.  Why on earth did you play  
> Alkan?  Zee rest of your programme vas vonderful, but why did you  
> play Alkan?"
>
> I guess what she was trying to say was that I could have had a  
> crack at placing in the top 3, but ruined my chance by playing  
> Alkan.  At that moment, I realised that my world of music as an  
> amateur was far greater and bigger than hers.  I wish I told her  
> that "I play Alkan because he is the most important and neglected  
> Jewish composer of all times."
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 10, 2007, at 01:04PM, "Steve Unsworth"  
> <lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> wrote:
>> It explains why Ken looked a little, shall I say 'nervous', before  
>> he began
>> <grin>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 10/10/07 20:53, "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Philippe Orlent wrote:
>>>
>>>> LOL.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And about Ken:
>>>>
>>>> <dabble.com/node/12693324>
>>>>
>>>> <http://vancliburn.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/he-played-brilliantly-
>>>> with-fishy-fingers/>
>>>
>>>
>>> wonderful fascinating..
>>>
>>>
>>> you go Ken...!
>>>
>>> Good luck,
>>> Steve
>>
>>
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Replies: Reply from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Alkan)
In reply to: Message from ken at iisaka.org (Ken Iisaka) ([Leica] Re: Alkan)