Your heros

[lisztisforkids]

One of my heros.

[thalbergmad]

[prometheus]

Heroes is a big word, but:




And

[thalbergmad]

Who is them two.

I don't recognise either.

[da jake]

Noam Chomsky - (eww)
Bertie Russel - a better human being

[thalbergmad]

I thought the one on the bottom was Berlioz great grandson.

[allthumbs]

The bodybuilder is Frank Zane in the era when steriod use wasn't as common as today.

[anekdote]

[henrah]

Gold stars to why he's my hero.

[thalbergmad]

Coz he lives in Wantage and is a great organist??

Your teacher??

Graham Blyth.

[prometheus]

Noam Chomsky - (eww)
Bertie Russel - a better human being

Chomsky has an even stronger morality than Russell. And he knows why to pick Russell over Einstein, for example.

[henrah]

Me, Henry Blyth. Him, Graham Blyth. No gold stars to guessing the link there lol

The reason why is because it is his Fazioli in his recital hall, and that he is the director of the Wantage Festival of Arts, or something around that, and the sheer amount of piano literature and talent I've been exposed to is awesome. Though the range of composers isn't great, I've still heard many good pieces.

For his 60th he's going to conduct Sibelius' 5th, that'll be mind blowing

And also it's his £240 that made his piano sooooo much better that I have fallen in love with Chopin all over again

[johnny-boy]

He made me what I am today. Thanks Zach!

[stevie]

zmoothly zwift entah

[steveie986]

[pianistimo]

young gould.

my hero is lance armstrong.  despite the odds, he kept popping up.  and, he has no fear.  i think it is taking risks that get people farther, but many are too scared of what the opposition will do.  instead of worrying about the opposition - he just leaves them in the dust. 

i don't think everything in life is a race.  and, i do think we should help others around us - but, there's a time to just take care of urself too.  too keep technique up.  to shut out the sound and noise - and the little voice that says - ur striving with the wind  - and hear encouraging things 'u can do it.'  the only thing left for people who quit is to die.

my other hero is george washington.  living here near valley forge, it is a constant reminder of a couple of **winters where the guys routinely froze 10 at a time.  george washington, instead of going home (as he easily could have) stayed through each winter and did his best to give moral support.  i liked him riding out on his horse between the british and the rebels, and risking being shot 1000 times, too.  it was a death defying moment.

i would say there are many women on my list too, since i'm a woman.  my own general physician is one of my heros.  she cares about her patients beyond the doctor visit and calls over a weekend if a patient is having troubles of any kind.  she goes past the point of duty.  my mom is one of my heros, too.  and, step-dad.  it seems like when u are a child - u don't see the effort.  but, then when u grow up - u realize enormous effort goes into taking care of children and making sure they're safe and needs (emotional and physical) are taken care of.

helene grimaud isn't a bad hero - either.  she's so slight - but very capable.  all my piano teachers are my heros.  and, my husband is my hero definately.  he is like a rock. 

[musik_man]

Fyodor Dostoevsky


G.K. Chesterton


Alexander Solzhenitsyn


George Washington

Although I can't say that I really care all too much about 'heroes,'  these are some of the people who I respect deeply.

Pianistimo, Did you know that Lance's resting pulse is in the 50's.

BTW could everyone please label their pictures.  I can't recognize a good many of them.

[donjuan]

Liszt

the man mocked royalty--> refusing to play for Louis Philippe, publically throwing Frederick Wilhelm IV of Prussia's gift diamonds into the theatre..

oh, and my favorite - when he played for Nicholas I of russia, Nicholas spoke during the performance, to which Liszt rose and said "Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks" 

and then when that chickensh*t thalberg wouldnt walk the walk and meet with Liszt after coming to paris in 1836, in 1837, Liszt confronted thalberg while the latter was giving a recital and made a piano duel out of it.  you all know how that one ended..

I love how he made himself a king -a good king, who taught for free- and defended his crown with balls.  someone needs to make a movie

[jre58591]

nuff said.

[donjuan]

nuff said.

i went and saw him play last night!  https://www.winspearcentre.com/calendar.asp?action=detail&id=2629&incDate=6/3/2006

[jre58591]

i went and saw him play last night!  https://www.winspearcentre.com/calendar.asp?action=detail&id=2629&incDate=6/3/2006

oh crap, how was his beet 4?
he spoke of it when i met him, sayiong it was very difficult and hard to grasp.

[pianistimo]

how did hamelin play?  did u like his interpretation?  anyone second the gilels 'best performance ever?'  i've only heard ashkenazy play this so i can't compare, yet.  guess it's not fair to compare anyway. 

i tend to like the 'royal' sound of this concerto.  it was composed for royalty, right?  i have a score that has footnotes about it - so must look for it again.  it was in a pile of music at a piano store for discount price.  i almost didn't get it - but i thought - oh, well, another  piano concerto i might or might not play.  surprisingly, later, i thought the footnotes were fairly priceless and i didn't look at them at first.

[mycrabface]

Jason Bourne.

[stevie]

oh crap, how was his beet 4?
he spoke of it when i met him, sayiong it was very difficult and hard to grasp.

haha, he said the same thing about workin on his octs

[rob47]

hahah these touching Heroics,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sd7TcVH670

 

[donjuan]

the performance of beethoven's 4th was kind of boring, perhaps because it seemed so easy for hamelin.  But the technique was incredible!  he could play the chromatic scales so quickly and quietly, so it just sounds like a magical cloud, rather than individual notes.  but for me, he did it way too much and it took away from the music.  tenuto was pretty sparse, and he tended to just go over everything without really arriving at any destination.

his performance was musically inferior to Rubinstein or any beethoven expert, but it was worth going, just to witness one of the technical wizards of our time.  But generally, I think his musicianship was too cold to play the music.

[lisztisforkids]

Chomsky has an even stronger morality than Russell. And he knows why to pick Russell over Einstein, for example.

 Chomsky is quite dispecable...

[thalbergmad]

[prometheus]

Chomsky is quite dispecable...

Why would one say that?

[steveie986]

Why would one say that?

Uh... Sarcasm right?

[prometheus]

Of course not.

[lisztisforkids]

Malcom X

[trunks]

1. Jesus Christ

2. Voltaire (15th Century French philosopher)

3. Stephen Hawking (British physicist, paralyzed with the disease "ALS")

4. Bo Yang (Taiwanese writer and philosopher) in his "The Ugly Chinaman":
https://www.amazon.com/Ugly-Chinaman-Crisis-Chinese-Culture/dp/1863731164
Please read my review on that page.

5. Artur Rubinstein (can it be any other !?)