[Dixielandjazz] Polina, Bach, and Pee Wee Russell

[Tony Davis]

Absolutely magnificent, Charles - thank you for sharing this. But I 
fhink you're a little hard on the "stony" page turner - she has an 
awesome responsibility.  She can't afford to be carried away by the 
music; she has to become a page-turning machine :-).

Tony


On 01/12/17 07:37, Charles Suhor wrote:
> Okay, this isn’t jazz, but there are so many interesting things going 
> on, musically and visually, that I couldn’t help sharing it. The lines 
> of of the opening cadence has some great syncopations. The camera 
> captures the grace and and dazzling speed of Polina’s fingering, 
> enhanced by the mirrored panel (and her beauty is stunning). I’ve 
> always loved Bach’s counterpoint but seldom seen up close how the 
> pianist’s hands interplay in the execution. Funny aside: the stony 
> page turner reminds me of Keely Smith—so much is happening musically 
> but she’s sitting deadpan next to Polina, who’s clearly transported, 
> knocking herself out.
> The audience spontaneously applauds at the end of the movement, which 
> I really like. The mandatory concert convention of not applauding 
> until the end is as artificial as the conventional applause after each 
> solo by some jazz audiences. The whole 23 minutes is a pleasure, but 
> you can skip to the third movement at 16:00 to see Polina 
> Osetinskaya’s ferocious beauty at a peak. She’s almost levitating with 
> the joy of it.
> Relevant to this, Pee Wee Russell once said, “A certain group of 
> guys—I don’t care where they come from—that have a feeling and a 
> rhythm that you couldn’t take away from them, even if they were in a 
> symphony organization. Regardless of what type of music they play, 
> they could feel a beat from a conductor.”
>
> Charlie
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osg_WmeLxQk
>
>

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