Martha Argerich rang and said, will you play with me tonight?
mainGabriela Montero had bought tickets to hear Martha and Maria Joao Pires play four-hand in Hamburg and had booked her flights from Barcelona. Last night at one in the morning, the phone rang. ‘Gabrielita,’ said Martha, ‘Pires has had to cancel on Wednesday night. Will you play the Schubert F Minor Fantasie with me? And could you do some improvisations?’.
Gabriela says: ‘So, that’s where I’ll be tonight. Not sitting in the audience, but sitting onstage next to my dear Martha bringing to life these gorgeous 20 minutes of other-worldly inspiration.’
Well, Martha, what you send around comes around!
Why don’t you share Montero’s Facebook post where she describes this more fully?
Not everyone here shares the Facebook obsession. I, for one, am happy not to have a FB account – and never have.
Bravo, and ditto!
So… you’d object to N.L. pasting the text onto this page?
Sniff sniff
Bob, I have never had one and I will go to my grave having not had a FB account. Too much sick narcissism on there for me.
Your friends are likely thankful.
I wholeheartedly agree with Bob Boles.
@ BK: Why don’t you type Gabriela Montero on FB?
G.Montero’s a flak
Strange for once it’s not MA doing the cancelling
About nine or ten years ago, I had tickets to hear Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire at the Klavierfestival Ruhr in Essen. Mr Freire had to cancel. At what I believe was a day’s notice, the organisers phoned round and got Mischa Maisky, Renaud Capuçon, Lyda Chen and, I think, Gabrielle Shek (please forgive my poor memory) to jump in. It was an absolutely incredible evening of music-making. That Schumann quintet was one of THE most memorable chamber-music performances I have ever witnessed. And I have been attending many concerts for about 30 years. What joy! It was like a family getting together and grabbing their instruments for a spontaneous house concert. And we were the lucky ones to be there. Thank you!