Steinway gets a new boss
mainGuido Zimmermann, 44, is the new MD of the Hamburg branch of the troubled piano manufacturer. He succeeds Werner Hussmann, who retires next month.
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No wonder that they are ‘troubled’ when they build their instruments upside-down.
But don’t you think it’s so eminently suitable that way for modern ‘sonic art’?
Yes definitely. In a musical vision upside-down, it would work perfectly well.
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Steinway-piano-overturned-at-K-State-Campus-police-looking-for-tips-360636861.html tells about the upside down piano.
Incredible piece of vandalism.
But John Cage would have loved it.
Of course he did it in “00:13:1½ for upside down piano, for any number of players doing anything but playing”. Composition year was 1993 but it was never performed.
Is it really fair and serious “journalism” to connect the announcement that Guido Zimmermann, new MD for Steinway & Sons in Hamburg, who will replace the retired Werner Husmann, with a photo from a vandalism that happend in December 2015 at All Faiths Chapel on the K-State Manhattan campus??? No wonder that the “discussion” following is going into the wrong direction…