The first of seven days of piano auditions began well enough. The first half dozen prospects were accomplished players. Things to quibble with, of course — but jobs well done.\n<\/p>\n
\nAfter each student finishes playing and leaves the room, the jury has brief discussion, then each of us assigns a rating for the auditioner just heard.\n<\/p>\n
\nAfter six auditions, something else happened. A diminutive youngster was seated at the clavier<\/em> — and I heard the sound of this instrument, the real, lovely, palpable sound of this Steinway for the first time that day. And the sound was a vehicle — conveying a subtle, alive, and compelling reading of a fairly enigmatic prelude by J. S. Bach.\n<\/p>\n \nFor some minutes, as the playing continued, any worries about the future of music were banished, in the presence of this nascent artist. No exaggeration, it was an emotional experience to hear this kid. Because the playing was wonderful, and because the quality of the playing gave real hope, even joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first of seven days of piano auditions began well enough. The first half dozen prospects were accomplished players. Things to quibble with, of course — but jobs well done. After each student finishes playing and leaves the room, the jury has brief discussion, then each of us assigns a rating for the auditioner just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[213,215,812,811],"class_list":{"0":"post-329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-audition","9":"tag-entance-exam","10":"tag-entrance-audition","11":"tag-musical-audition","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}