Well, it wasn't a stick, but at a concert of some "modern" organ music, my
job at the end of the piece at the appropriate time was to turn off the
organ as the player was to hold many notes with hands and feet. So, I sat
under the keyboard and with my hand on the key, counted to the right place,
and, off with it.
One of my best performing moments.
Sandy
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Stuart Frankel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There's a big difference between memorizing something someone else wrote
> and something that you wrote yourself. Furthermore, writing something down
> (which M obviously did) and copying something (which it looks like M did
> for at least the first 2 movements, since their readings are very clean)
> are good ways to learn a piece. No reason that Mozart couldn't have played
> from memory.
>
> In modern performances, if the only goal is surprise, the player could
> take a cue from the apocryphal story related by Burney about (JS) Bach
> playing organ and supplementing his hand and feet with a stick between his
> teeth.
>
> If the goal is anything other than surprise, however, this might not have
> a good effect.
>
>
> best,
> S
>
> --
> i still have a very small website
> http://dustyfeet.com
>
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