| | Nice. The third movement cadenza is still looping in my head at this hour. For once, I was free in the morning to catch the webcast, and it was actually quite stable. I might continue to do live audio recordings from the webcast stream instead of the internet radio stream, which seems to require lots of buffering. Plus it's absolutely destructive to hear the stream suddenly jump forward, as if the performer had a spasm or something (not to discount the possibility, though - after all it's an audio stream, so we can't see for ourselves).
However, it was rather saddening to see the blog discussion degenerate into an issue of disabilities and expectations, and that this exceeding of expectations was a significant contributor to the popularity of the crowd favourite. Earlier in the competition I was already feeling disturbed by the constant references to the disability and the general amazement that certain passages were actually even possible for such a person. Once is alright. But it's been once too many. People need to hear him for his music, and not have their ears/eyes coloured by how he's different from everyone else. It just shows, as one comment put it, how "we are still uncomfortable with disability and with difference". Guys, we've got to move on from there, and see him as a contender on equal footing with the rest of the competition. I trust the jury is also doing the same.
Meanwhile, a memento of this morning's broadcast. Earworm, yes, but nice earworm  . Sleeping now so I can catch the next possible earworm (Chopin #2) tomorrow morning. |
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