Meet Maestro Monosyllable

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norman lebrecht

September 17, 2015

Guess who’s joined Facebook under a foreshortened name.

eschy

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  • mr oakmount says:
    September 17, 2015 at 5:28 am

    I understand. Having a similar multi-syllabic German name that has been mispronounced and misspelled by English speakers in a multitude of different ways, I also tend to tell people to “call me Chris”.

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  • John Borstlap says:
    September 17, 2015 at 10:40 am

    Chris Esch led an interesting new piano concerto at the Salzburg Festival this summer, as his facebook page shows: neo-expressionist Wolfgang Rihm produced a colourful lament à la Alban Berg, but with a personal touch, harking back to the early 20th century, lovingly caressing a dying late romanticism. The piece has the smell of dead flowers, autumnal graveyards, and old photographs of Vienna. A remarkable and beautiful admission of regret and loss of a classical tradition.

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  • Rich Rand says:
    September 17, 2015 at 11:07 am

    Totally ridiculous! If anybody would actually be interested in Eschenbach’s Facebook entries, they would certainly know of him by his real name and if somebody was just discovering him for the first time on Facebook, then they would be lost in the follow-up. Eschenbach or ‘Esch’, as he now apparently prefers to be known, seems only to go from bad to worse, to the totally ridiculous. Has this man lost it? He seems to be a desperate loser with a penchant for money and very bad PR.

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  • David Boxwell says:
    September 17, 2015 at 7:03 pm

    I call him Chri$ E$ch, myself.

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  • David Boxwell says:
    September 17, 2015 at 7:05 pm

    He should get together with Alex Penda.

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    • Oscar says:
      September 17, 2015 at 7:12 pm

      He only likes Tzimon Barto, so Ms. Penda has no chance. At least he keeps Mr. Barto away from performing too much with other conductors, sparing audiences from being subjected to narcissistic indulgence at the highest level.

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      • David Boxwell says:
        September 18, 2015 at 2:20 pm

        It was a reference to the singer shortening her name for professional purposes, long after she was well-known by her own real name.

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