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.)
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Balogh insisted, as a part of her musical education, that my mother attend recitals of all the great pianists of her time, and this she did, taking careful notes of details of interpretation in each case. Schnabel, Horowitz, Rubinstein, Rachmaninov -- she heard them all, live.
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She retained her concert programs from each of these recitals, and these are among my most precious possessions. I marvel at the thought of my mother as a girl, sitting in the seventh row, while Rachmaninov performed the "Appassionata." Of course she never forgot the experience.
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