The Hollywood actor who has trouble saying ‘pianist’

The Hollywood actor who has trouble saying ‘pianist’

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norman lebrecht

March 13, 2015

It’s Ethan Hawke. Could happen to anyone, right?

Hawke has made a movie about the veteran pi-a-nist, Seymour Bernstein.

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  • V.Lind says:
    March 14, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    He is pronouncing it correctly in that clip and receives the idiotic response that has driven all too many North Americans to say “pi-AHN-ist.” American morning television is about the lowest common denominator in human interaction on earth. (In the First World).

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