Ned Rorem in New York - 8 April, 1983

from The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985, page 397:

Today at four I visited Madame Bouboulidi on West 58th to run through the Concerto on two pianos. I was praying she'd be a monument of technique with no feeling. Alas, she was all feeling with no technique. The fast movements were each a third slower than indicated in the score.
cite as

Ned Rorem, The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985, volume 2 (San Francisco, 1987), p. 397. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435614420254 accessed: 20 April, 2024

location of experience: New York

Listeners

Ned Rorem
Critic, essayist, Composer, Diarist […]
1923-

Listening to

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Piano Concerto
written by Ned Rorem
performed by Rita Bouboulidi

Experience Information

Date/Time 8 April, 1983
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by pashworth on Mon, 29 Jun 2015 22:47:00 +0100
Approved on Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:00:55 +0000