Comments on: Random Act http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/05/07/random-act/ The Official Site of Jonathan Biss Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:36:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Robert S. Kissel http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/05/07/random-act/#comment-117 Robert S. Kissel Sat, 10 May 2008 00:49:24 +0000 http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/05/07/random-act/#comment-117 Ah, but it also shows how COMMUNICATIVE a pianist you are! I can well understand how your audience feels as if you're a friend, and as if they know you. I am very much looking forward to hearing you play with your mother this coming Wednesday--we tried to get tickets for the Met concert too, but even though we went the day they went on sale, nothing but crummy, under-the-overhang seats were available, so we won't get to hear you play the Schumann. I'm so glad you have this Web site now--it used to be very difficult to keep track of when you were going to be playing within car-shot of me. I'd give you a lift to the airport any day. Any day. (I'm the fat, bearded man that first heard you at the Barge that time. Yeah, that one.) Ah, but it also shows how COMMUNICATIVE a pianist you are! I can well understand how your audience feels as if you’re a friend, and as if they know you.

I am very much looking forward to hearing you play with your mother this coming Wednesday–we tried to get tickets for the Met concert too, but even though we went the day they went on sale, nothing but crummy, under-the-overhang seats were available, so we won’t get to hear you play the Schumann.

I’m so glad you have this Web site now–it used to be very difficult to keep track of when you were going to be playing within car-shot of me.

I’d give you a lift to the airport any day. Any day.

(I’m the fat, bearded man that first heard you at the Barge that time. Yeah, that one.)

]]> By: Jonathan http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/05/07/random-act/#comment-118 Jonathan Sat, 10 May 2008 13:23:36 +0000 http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/05/07/random-act/#comment-118 Thank you, Robert, for the very nice words. Unfortunately, I have to report that the concert at the Y (as well as the one at the Kennedy Center, on Monday) has been cancelled, due to an illness in our family. If you've purchased tickets already, I'm sure the Y will be able to help you deal with that. Hope to see you soon at another concert. Thank you, Robert, for the very nice words.

Unfortunately, I have to report that the concert at the Y (as well as the one at the Kennedy Center, on Monday) has been cancelled, due to an illness in our family. If you’ve purchased tickets already, I’m sure the Y will be able to help you deal with that.

Hope to see you soon at another concert.

]]> By: Robert S. Kissel http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/05/07/random-act/#comment-120 Robert S. Kissel Mon, 12 May 2008 14:37:00 +0000 http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/05/07/random-act/#comment-120 We were all broken-hearted that this wonderful program you and your mother were planning had to be cancelled, of course, and our hearts go out to you and your mother, since obviously, whatever happened is very serious. I just hope you and your mother will repeat that same program for us at another time. Just the program alone delighted all of us, and I sat right down with the scores to get my mind around all that dense, fascinating music...we were commenting how, in a way, the only place where we would have been able to relax a LITTLE was the Janáček--and the rest of the way we'd all have to have our listening ears in high gear! Again, I hope things take a turn for the better, and we'll hope to hear you again and a later date. It's an endless fountain of immortal drink pouring unto us from the heaven's brink, and you and your mother have all the power of music, which, as Olga Bloom puts it, has all that power to HEAL and REVEAL. We were all broken-hearted that this wonderful program you and your mother were planning had to be cancelled, of course, and our hearts go out to you and your mother, since obviously, whatever happened is very serious.

I just hope you and your mother will repeat that same program for us at another time. Just the program alone delighted all of us, and I sat right down with the scores to get my mind around all that dense, fascinating music…we were commenting how, in a way, the only place where we would have been able to relax a LITTLE was the Janáček–and the rest of the way we’d all have to have our listening ears in high gear!

Again, I hope things take a turn for the better, and we’ll hope to hear you again and a later date. It’s an endless fountain of immortal drink pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink, and you and your mother have all the power of music, which, as Olga Bloom puts it, has all that power to HEAL and REVEAL.

]]> By: Philip Hurst http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/05/07/random-act/#comment-122 Philip Hurst Sun, 25 May 2008 18:03:08 +0000 http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/05/07/random-act/#comment-122 Dear Jonathan, I'm glad that your travel was ultimately sorted out because it was my great pleasure to hear you play the Beethoven 3rd PC with the Toronto SO in the first week of May. I live in Spain, but I have been on a month-long trip across Canada (today is the last day), punctuated by concerts in Montreal (Louis Lortie), Toronto, and Vancouver. The Beethoven 3rd PC is one of my favourite concertos (my favourite performance on CD is by Arrau), and I found your performance at the Roy Thompson Hall quite electrifying. The first movement you played with an energy and tautness that was entirely new to me, and provided a wonderful musical experience. Thank you for providing such a splendid highlight to my travel. Dear Jonathan,

I’m glad that your travel was ultimately sorted out because it was my great pleasure to hear you play the Beethoven 3rd PC with the Toronto SO in the first week of May. I live in Spain, but I have been on a month-long trip across Canada (today is the last day), punctuated by concerts in Montreal (Louis Lortie), Toronto, and Vancouver. The Beethoven 3rd PC is one of my favourite concertos (my favourite performance on CD is by Arrau), and I found your performance at the Roy Thompson Hall quite electrifying. The first movement you played with an energy and tautness that was entirely new to me, and provided a wonderful musical experience. Thank you for providing such a splendid highlight to my travel.

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