Word: minor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flat minor Scherzo, the piece used by that eerie little Russian girl to intimidate Richard Dreyfus in "The Competition," came off worse. Its main weakness was lack of dynamic range--or rather, lack of sensitive dynamic range, as one tended to be awed by Zimerman's ferocious key depth without forgetting the harsh sounds it sometimes produced. A stricter observance of tempi would also have been in order; this was Chopin, not Debussy. In any case the risks he took at high speeds were admirable, and his confident, blind leaps across three octaves are a reproach to showier pianists...
...night's finest performance came in the F minor Fantasy, Op. 49. The astonishing scope of this late masterpiece requires a pianist with patience and experience. Zimerman was comfortable in the realm of the Fantasy's quirks--a march-like theme at the outset is never recapitulated; the piece ends in the relative major, not the parallel major--which place it far outside the world of the salon. The virtues of his playing were many: sizzling arpeggios, perfect pedaling, nimble wrist octaves, barnburning virtuosity in the big contrary-motion sweeps, so much that he lifted himself off the bench...
...revealed nothing that could possibly account for the pain. Gawande s article also quoted several studies showing that pain perception varied widely between people undergoing identical experiences (e.g. surgical operations, war wounds, etc.). In other words, a stimulus that would cause one person severe pain would be only a minor annoyance to another. The point here is not that some people are "tougher" than others, that some people can just bite the bullet while others run whimpering to the medicine cabinet or even to the doctor s office. The point is that pain is complicated, that the same pressure applied...
Recent undergraduate behavior has resulted in "minor damages" to the club building, and graduates who have been raising money for the renovations did not wish to see the building defaced further...
...only damage to Memorial church is some minor piercing where the clapper struck the copper cornice--damage still visible from the Canaday courtyard...