A trio of videos on counterintuitive mechanisms by the golden-voiced Coolaun and his graduate students.
See Amit Sahai’s page for a concise explanation.
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Before the inevitable: Henle’s musical engraving
The well-known music publisher held onto manual engraving into the late 1990s when computers finally got good enough. Now the trend is to replace paper altogether with screens. Here are lookbacks to the bygone craft.
Engulfed Keyboard: Freire and Richter play Debussy
I’m relearning ‘Canope,’ one of Debussy’s amateur friendly Preludes that stretches hands all over the 88s and reading skills across three staves. One day I hope to don the scuba gear and visit ‘La Cathédrale Engloutie’. Here are Nelson Freire and Sviatoslav Richter wrapping their very differently-sized flippers around it.
Heinrich Neuhaus documentary
An engrossing biography of the man who taught Richter, Gilels, Lupu, and whose Art of Piano Playing is known to expert and duffer alike.
It’s always darkest just before it goes pitch black
The image is copyrighted. See it at the home of the Demotivator.