Why Ravel Wrote a Concerto... For Only One Hand??
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One of my favorite concertos.
Link to videoRavel: "Performers are slaves to the composer. Play it as I wrote it or not at all."
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By the way, you need some Yuja, right?
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Like some parts of pop culture turn against white actors playing the parts of non-white characters, will the classical music world revolt against two-handed pianists playing the part of music written for one-handed pianists?

@Axtremus said in Why Ravel Wrote a Concerto... For Only One Hand??:
Like some parts of pop culture turn against white actors playing the parts of non-white characters, will the classical music world revolt against two-handed pianists playing the part of music written for one-handed pianists?

A simple surgical intervention can solve that issue for a two handed pianist who wishes to play a one handed concerto in a socially acceptable way.
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