On 14/12/13 7:31 AM, Gary R. Boye wrote:
Thanks for this; it is worth watching the *whole video* . . . I'm not
sure Chapdelaine felt he was being needlessly bullied
Yes, it's interesting to hear Chapdelaine's reaction to the "bullying."
Segovia was amazingly sensitive to the slightest things. At the one
concert of his I ever attended, he came out on stage at the Place des
Arts in Montréal, sat for a moment while the audience began to settle
down, then got up and stormed off the stage. My immediate thought was
that the audience had been too noisy. He came back out, sat down again,
and played the concert.
I would have never known what had happened, except that I happened to
know the wife of the impresario who had organized the concert. She was
backstage when he stormed out, and what he demanded was that the
escalators in the lobby be turned off. Despite the noisy audience he
could hear through them to the miniscule noise caused by the escalators.
As soon as the escalators were turned off, he was satisfied, and went
ahead with the concert. I had been in the audience at Place des Arts
many timnes for many different concerts, and had never been aware of any
noise from the escalators, even though I was far closer to the
escalators than Segovia on stage, and did not have audience noise to
interfere. The man, though advanced in years, had amazing ears.
Geoff
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Geoff Gaherty
Foxmead Observatory
Coldwater, Ontario, Canada
http://www.gaherty.ca
http://starrynightskyevents.blogspot.com/
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