{"id":6245,"date":"2014-12-10T17:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T01:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6245"},"modified":"2014-12-15T23:15:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T07:15:09","slug":"other-matters-risk-and-playing-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/12\/other-matters-risk-and-playing-from-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters: Risk And Playing From The Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;qdDCS7BZfPPmKCFIpI6c55e5Q5Rp04io&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/practice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/practice.jpg\" alt=\"practice\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6247\" \/><\/a>How do you get to Carnegie Hall? &#8220;Practice,&#8221; the violinist Fritz Kreisler famously told a tourist who asked him that question on a New York street. But can a performer practice too much&#151;practice the life out of a piece of music? No and yes, said one of Kreisler&#8217;s great contemporaries, pianist Artur Rubinstein (1887-1982). Here is Rubinstein in a clip from a PBS documentary hosted by Robert MacNeil, discussing a proposition that serious musicians of all genres will always confront. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FxscSd-8GTM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here is Rubinstein in 1973 demonstrating by way of a Brahms capriccio<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M9M-F9NX-R0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>To see a generous sample of the Rubinstein documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Kx7Tl...\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;qdDCS7BZfPPmKCFIpI6c55e5Q5Rp04io&#8221;] How do you get to Carnegie Hall? &#8220;Practice,&#8221; the violinist Fritz Kreisler famously told a tourist who asked him that question on a New York street. But can a performer practice too much&#151;practice the life out of a piece of music? No and yes, said one of Kreisler&#8217;s great contemporaries, pianist Artur Rubinstein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}