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...year here my confidence in my playing dropped dramatically because I wasn't practicing and performing enough. At home I'd been practicing four to five hours a day, performing, and teaching," she says, adding. "I don't think I could have made it to junior year without a piano...
...Krash believes that the problems of piano playing at Harvard go far beyond a lack of facilities. "Of course there should be more pianos, of course the music building should be open past ten o'clock." But the real problem, she says, is attitude. "The Music Department could really be an advocate of performance, but instead professors say to me. 'Oh, you probably want to do something more intellectual with your life than perform. 'It's one thing if they don't want to teach it, but they look down on it as well," she says, noting that none...
This attitude, she insists, is one of the main reasons the facilities are so poor. She recalls a run-in with a department secretary who controlled the keys to all the piano practice rooms. "When I asked her for the key to the grand piano, she looked up at me with this little smile and said. "You mean the pianos downstairs aren't good enough...
Krash joins the chorus of Harvard pianists who bemoan the inaccessibility of the Music Department's new Bosendorfer grand (believed by some to be the finest brand of piano in the world today). Only professors and graduate composition classes are allowed to use the instrument, which is kept locked up at all times. "The department seems to feel that instruments somehow get used up if you play them," she says. "Of course they deteriorate just as quickly if you don't play them...
Christoph Wolff, chairman of the department, addresses the piano issue more specifically. "We do have quite a number of pianos, although not all of them are in the best of shape," he says, adding. "We are about to improve the situation and rebuilding is in effect...