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In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her first steps towards a life in music, from childhood piano lessons with a local jazz muso to international success as a concert pianist. As she discovers passion and ambition, and confronts doubt and disappointment, she learns about much... read more
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“"We are not teaching piano playing. We are teaching philosophy and life and music digested."”
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““I tell you a secret about Chopin, piano is his best friend. More. He tells piano all his secrets.””
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““Never demonstrate. Never beautify Mozart. He is beautiful enough already. He does not need your make-up.””
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It is only by hearing a sound first in your imagination that you relax. And it is only by relaxing that you properly hear that sound, be mindful of that sound, understand it as a sound in time, in context of a past and future.
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Over time, I learnt that the thumb is the key to the hand’s relaxation, its checkpoint, navigator and conductor. There is an instinct to grab with the thumb, which turns it into a brake; pianistic fluency depends on letting it go, on trusting the hand.
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When you play concert, find one person in the audience, and play for him only.’
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Your hand and your instrument are one, not two, and your music inside of you.’
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to please everybody, you automatically will be robot, or lost in jungle.’
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‘Hands completely melted down. He embrace the piano.’
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those who practise a lot and admit it; those who practise a lot but deny it; and those who do not practise and, therefore, are not pianists.
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I was from absolutely atheistic background, completely. More than atheistic: communistic. A type of religious atheism! But I came to God through the music. Look at this beautiful world – all for nothing? We don’t know what. But definitely, definitely something, otherwise this music not exist.
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‘We play with our ears,’ she reminded me. ‘Seeing ears, hearing eyes. Clever heart, warm brain.’
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Talent is money in the bank, only. How you spend it, this is up to you.’
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Setting & Locations edit
- Adelaide, Australia
- Fort Worth, Texas: Anna studied at the Cliburn Institute of Texas Christian University
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It was my grandfather who found her. He pronounced her name with an extravagant French accent that spoke of her mystery, her glamour. Mrs Siv-an.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Anna Goldsworthy (Author)
Awards edit
- Australian Book Industry Awards (2010: Newcomer of the Year)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 920
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