I suspect his other 4-5 Haydn sonata (sightread) would have been just as mediocre as sightread music usually is.
> > Hi all, > > I strongly agree with Roman of his comment below! > > Arto > > On Thu, 4 May 2006, Roman Turovsky wrote: > >> > Hmmm.. Tab may be hard to memorize (don't know - never tried), but >> music >> > isn't, lol. IMO, if you need to read to play in performance you don't >> know >> > the music and you might as well just program it into a sequencer >> (which >> > can read it much more accurately than you can). >> Lute music is not exactly "green onions", you know..... >> That's why even our virtuosi like to read as they play. >> Not everyone thinks that memorization is such a wonderful thing. >> Svyatoslav >> Richter once said that if he weren't forced to play from memory he >> wouldn't >> be stuck with his limited [sic!] repertoire. He would have liked to play >> 5-6 >> Haydn sonatas in concert, rather than 1, but sightreading just wasn't >> done >> in the old country. >> RT >> == > -- http://DoctorOakroot.com - Rough-edged songs on homemade GIT-tars. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
