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Offline ed palamar

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Book concerning performance - name clarification
on: January 08, 2015, 05:23:29 PM
Earlier in college, I once read a book about a pianist who was strictly forced to practice the piano when she we young.  She disliked this, but in a small autobiography she wrote, she had occasion to play for people in a building (chapel?) during World War II (I?) where she relates that it was the first time that she enjoyed playing as the building and people were under attack, and her playing placated their fears.

As I recall, she went on to teach at the university level in either Indiana or Illinois.

Her name began with Ros, I think it was Rosalind, but I'm not sure.

Did anyone else here read of this same story, and who is that person?
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Re: Book concerning performance - name clarification
Reply #1 on: January 08, 2015, 06:11:39 PM
was it Turek?
she's my favorite. Glenn Gould gets the Glory but I feel like Turek got it more 'right'  ;)
https://www.tureckbach.com/biography

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Offline anamnesis

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Re: Book concerning performance - name clarification
Reply #2 on: January 08, 2015, 06:45:32 PM
The only female pianist off the top of by head associated with playing during the London Blitz was Dame Myra Hess, but she never wrote an autobiography. 
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Offline rmbarbosa

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Re: Book concerning performance - name clarification
Reply #3 on: January 31, 2015, 06:41:06 PM
Between Gauld and Tureck, I do prefer Gauld.
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