Seymour Bernstein: I don’t know any artist who escaped stage fright

Seymour Bernstein: I don’t know any artist who escaped stage fright

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norman lebrecht

February 24, 2018

The pianist, who retired at 50 with performance anxiety, says that even Vladimir Horowitz suffered from it.

The subject of a documentary by Ethan Hawke, Seymour –  now 90 – talks it out with Zsolt Bognar. ‘Usually, musicians are ashamed of it,’ he says.

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