How am I knowing it all? This is just logic no personal opinion within it. That you said, you recently accused someone and then apologized for being wrong. Then you go ahead and accuse me, when will this end, surely you don't need to be proven wrong again? How many times do you have to be shown that calling someone a fraud really puts you in a hot spot not the other person, and that you can still go calling people fraud full knowing that you have been wrong and recently wrong in this activity.
I certainly don't believe in what many people say but I don't go so far to let my personal feelings start calling them a fraud and liar.
The fact that this comes up on a thread about the hardest piece ever written highlights that it attracts egos who believe that have some type of superiority complex me thinks. This certainly does not comes from me since I am merely defending the negativity that is thrown into my face.
Dear Lostinidlewonder,
You logic is quite amusing. I am not sure if you are just questioning my intelligence, so to put things straight:
First, I did not accuse recently anybody. Yes, in that particular case I was quite abrasive and the reason was I misread another person's tone. There were however no any accusations.
Second, I never called you (or anybody else, for that matter) fraud.
Third, I never called you liar.
Fourth, you are the first person ever to call me having complex superiority. People can call me whatever (abrasive, for example, esp. towards some smart @$$es, braggers, ignorants, as well as "knowing it all prophets"), but knowing from my own experinece how hard it takes to play piano I just too much respect people who want and desire it, and besides, believe I just don't know enough in life to feel myself superior.
And the last, fifth, I don't accuse you, and don't follow the logic--just give simple facts, if you insist:
a) In the thread about Rachmaninov Moment Musicaux in E-flat minor in very polite form I told you that we have very different pick on the piece, you however kept going and going (BTW, exactly like in this very thread). Even the fact itself that Rachmaninov himself played the piece with "raises and falls" is not good enough for you of the reason.
IIRC, you ended up with some quite ridiculous comparison of this Moment Musicaux with Waldesrauchen--it is hard to imagine two more different pieces in term of music world, music language, emotional context, dynamic plan, and means of execution. It was very clear, all you wanted is to prove you are right and everyone else is wrong.
b) I saw quite a few times when you would not find one single nice thing to say about posted performances, saying to somebody "you don't need praises, but need critique" and then start picking on wrong notes.
Let me tell you, Lostindidlewonder, if you were a performing artist you'd learn that critique without praises is a way to many ruined careers. On this topic I would highly recommend Lazar Berman's book called "Annees de Pelerinage" ones it gets translated into English (unless you read German or Russian).
c) You even did not find a one single word to say about otherwise very fine masterclass posted by Tengstrand, starting explaining what the good teacher is
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d) Even a second grader will not have any doubts about what: "To tell you the truth, I could imagine..." means. Please don't tell me that it means: "I think"...
We are all good in proving ourselves right, critiquing, and "saying the truth", Lostinidlewonder. However, after that last one I just started wondering what makes you think you are entitled to "Tell us the truth"?
Hopefully, now it is much more clear where I was coming from.
So you can take it as a critique and go home and learn something from it, or you can start proving again that you are right and I am wrong. I am fine with either.
Take care, M
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