{"id":372,"date":"2012-02-13T06:21:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T11:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/?p=372"},"modified":"2020-07-20T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T18:05:29","slug":"pw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2012\/02\/pw.html","title":{"rendered":"PW"},"content":{"rendered":"

P. W. — the initials of Paula Wray McDonald, my wife, partner (and high-school girlfriend). But the two letters PW really stand for “Pianist’s Wife.”<\/p>\n

I am the pianist’s wife, Hurrah
\nHurrah for the pianist’s wife!
\nAh yes, it is a gruesome [glorious] life
\nTo be the pianist’s wife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"WandaAJ.jpg\"Wanda<\/a>, Nela<\/a>, Naomi<\/a> — that’s a lineage. Helpmates, sounding boards, ghost writers, taskmasters, goads. Paula had lessons from Tracy Taub…<\/p>\n

Maxims and Citations:<\/p>\n

“Always take home as many programs as you can carry.”<\/p>\n

“After the concert, in the green room, if the playing was bad, be a spin doctor. Tell ’em it was great!”<\/p>\n

“I’m so sorry, Mr. Pressler\/Lowenthal\/Frager can’t speak with you now.”<\/p>\n

“The audience seemed to love it, but I had a heartattack<\/em> in that place in the first movement.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

P. W. — the initials of Paula Wray McDonald, my wife, partner (and high-school girlfriend). But the two letters PW really stand for “Pianist’s Wife.” I am the pianist’s wife, Hurrah Hurrah for the pianist’s wife! Ah yes, it is a gruesome [glorious] life To be the pianist’s wife. Wanda, Nela, Naomi — that’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1653,"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":[140,859,855,172,857,858,856,854,863,860,370,862,141,861,853],"class_list":{"0":"post-372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-arthur","9":"tag-artur","10":"tag-frager","11":"tag-horowitz","12":"tag-jerry","13":"tag-lowenthal","14":"tag-malcolm","15":"tag-mcdonald","16":"tag-menachem","17":"tag-nela","18":"tag-paula","19":"tag-pressler","20":"tag-rubinstein","21":"tag-wanda","22":"tag-wray","23":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}