I can't get to sleep—too much accumulated tension—so instead I'm rereading John Canarina's excellent 2003 biography of Pierre Monteux, one of my favorite conductors. (I've no idea why, but I've always found it relaxing to read detail-crammed biographies of classical performers.)
This, by the way, was my introduction to Monteux: http://bit.ly/2Wj0KTR It's something close to fifty years ago now, but I still remember vividly listening to this, in the dark, with my mother (a student of a student of Bartok.) Wish I could do that now.
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With whom did your mother study?
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An extraordinary pianist named István Balogh, then on the faculty of the Cornish School of Music and Art, in Seattle. A severe and demanding taskmaster, but also ultimately an admirer of my mother's passionate devotion to music, and to the struggle to master her instrument.
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