{"id":653,"date":"2010-01-25T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/2010\/01\/25\/born-to-be-earl-wild\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:58:09","slug":"born-to-be-earl-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/2010\/01\/25\/born-to-be-earl-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Born to be Earl Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

RIP Earl Wild, the great American pianist who has died at the age of 94. There\u2019s a perceptive and thorough obituary on the Gramophone site, written by Jeremy Nicholas<\/a>\u00a0and another excellent one from Allan Kozinn at the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0so\u00a0do have a read. <\/p>\n

Here is some film of him playing the Chopin B flat minor Prelude in 1958. It\u2019s astonishing\u2026I\u2019m struck by the absolute calm of his aspect while the bedazzlement on the keyboard never ceases. Today\u2019s emoting youngsters, take note: concentrate the energy where it really matters! <\/p>\n

Farewell to a\u00a0marvellous musician.<\/p>\n

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RIP Earl Wild, the great American pianist who has died at the age of 94. There’s a perceptive and thorough obituary on the Gramophone site, written by Jeremy Nicholas and another excellent one from Allan Kozinn at the New York Times so do have a read. Here is some film of him playing the Chopin B flat minor Prelude in 1958. It’s astonishing…I’m struck by the absolute calm of his aspect while the bedazzlement on the keyboard never ceases. Today’s emoting youngsters, take note: concentrate the energy where it really matters! Farewell to a marvellous musician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}