{"id":4719,"date":"2016-04-19T04:42:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2016-04-19T04:42:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:42:52","slug":"never-bore-your-listeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4719","title":{"rendered":"Never bore your listeners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conductor and pianist Seymour Lipkin (born 1928) recalled piano lessons with his teacher, Bohemian-born pianist Rudolf Serkin:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">He said so many memorable things to me that I continue to pass on to my students.\u00a0 A few examples: &#8220;The worst crime you can commit as an artist is to bore your listeners&#8221;; for another, &#8220;People who come to hear you are entitled to hear all the rights notes, don&#8217;t you think?&#8221;; also,&#8221;You can&#8217;t play Mozart beautifully unless you can play Tchaikovsky well &#8230; and vice versa.&#8221; That last one made no sense to me at all at the time; now I understand precisely what he meant by it.<\/div>\n<p>Cited in:\u00a0 Lehmann, Stephen (2003) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rudolf Serkin: A Life.\u00a0 <\/span>New York: Oxford University Press, p. 209.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conductor and pianist Seymour Lipkin (born 1928) recalled piano lessons with his teacher, Bohemian-born pianist Rudolf Serkin: He said so many memorable things to me that I continue to pass on to my students.\u00a0 A few examples: &#8220;The worst crime you can commit as an artist is to bore your listeners&#8221;; for another, &#8220;People who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1179,1183],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indexes","tag-rudolf-serkin","tag-seymour-lipkin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4720,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}