DIYbanter - Bernard Purdie story

james of tucson wrote:

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On 2005-01-10, Roger W. Norman wrote:

He spent exactly 9 minutes on the tune. 3 to listen, 3 to record, 3 to
listen.

When Mozart was composing his Piano Concerto in D-min, he was on a very
tight production schedule. The musicians were rehearsing parts as soon
as the ink was dry enough to do it. The orchestral parts of the
composition were completed just barely in time, on the same day as the
performance, and the piano part, since it was to be played by Wolfgang
himself, wasn't finished until afterwards. (Lucky for us he cared
enough about his work to go ahead and put it down! -- actually, he
didn't. The piece had something of an oral history, and it was
Beethoven who wrote down his interpretation of the way the piece might
have been played. We will never know, really).

It has taken me 28 years to learn to even pretend to play this piece of
music. The orchestra had minutes to learn it, and Mozart apparently
just played it as it appeared in his head, before he'd even written it
down fully.

And even though Bernard Purdie was quite young at the time, word has it
he layed down a smokin' groove on the percussion parts.

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