Klarinet Archive - Posting 000165.txt from 2011/01

From: "Steve Hartman" <sdh902@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] missing a day of practicing
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:20:42 -0500

The author of "My Young Years" is Artur Rubinstein.

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From: "David B. Niethamer" <dniethamer@-----.net>
To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] missing a day of practicing

On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Richard Smith wrote:

> I'd say that person most credited with the quote is either Paderewski or
> Menuhin, though a bunch more just say "a famous pianist". Based on that
> unscientific inquiry, it sounds like the most likely source is Paderewski.
> Alas no votes for Dizzy Gillespie or Anton Rubinstein.
>
Rubinstein quotes it in his autobiography "My Young Years." As a born Pole, =

he may easily have learned it from Paderewski through some direct or =

indirect chain of teachers. It's a good enough quote to be passed on =

through many players and teachers, as your research shows!

David

David B. Niethamer
dniethamer@-----.net

p.s. I ran across a quote from the jazz drummer Art Blakey - "Jazz washes =

away the dust of everyday life.=94

Its origin is:

=93Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.=94 - Berthol=
d =

Auerbach (German novelist, 1812-1882)

Amazing that a jazz drummer of no great formal education would come across =

this quote and find it meaningful.
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