Day 093: Meet Maurizio Pollini and Olga
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
A year of music, study, travel, sightseeing &
friends.
Day 93
— Meet Maurizio Pollini and Olga
03-November-1971
(Wed.)
TRANSCRIPT
Another day. Some good, some not so good parts.
However, it ended perfectly. Went to a recital—Mario
[Maurizio] Pollini, pianist (very famous, and now I
know why). Chopin
Etudes—fantastic. Really
super-fantastic concert (with a whole mess of
encores). Almost as good as the Tuckwell concert.
REFLECTIONS
1971
Maurizio Pollini. Another
spectacular concert in Vienna. Italian concert
pianist. Maurizio (or Mario) Pollini, an
internationally-renowned concert pianist played
Chopin. As I have said before, the combination of
seeing and hearing a world-class performer in
combination with the excitement of a Viennese
audience is amazing.
Wikipedia says it all.
Pollini
is
“regarded as one of the greatest living pianists.”
Check out some of his recordings on iTunes.
2007
Olga. Meet my
beautiful wife, Olga. (See opening picture.) I
haven’t been paying enough attention to Olga and the
family ever since this blog has been consuming my
free time. I make amends. Yes, I still walk the dog.
So, here she is. The beautiful Olga in the fall
foliage of 2007.
See you tomorrow.
John
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