Tag: Mitsuko Uchida

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30 Days of Musical Tidbits: Day 2, Mitsuko Uchida

_Is_Talent_Enough___Mitsuko_Uchida_starts_the_debate_-_YouTube Uchida is both an extraordinary pianist, and also one with thought-provoking things to say about music and the arts. She was asked by a trust in London to kick off a panel on various aspects of the music business. She addressed the question “Is Talent Enough?” with candor and charm.


 

Here she is playing the slow movement of Mozart’s C Major Sonata (K. 545). Selah.

 

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Good Words For Bloggers from Getty

Tipped by Neverending Search, am happy to share the news that Getty Images has offered a kosher way to link to images in its vast archives. This means that non-profit bloggers and others using images for non-commercial use, such as teachers, can link legally rather than the old m.o. (“right clickable? must be okie-dokie!”). It’s akin to YouTube–you just grab the embed code and paste it in.

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And just to test it, here is a photo of one of my favorite concert pianists:

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The branding is a little more noticeable than YouTube’s (although do we even ever think about YouTube’s brand any more, it’s just the infrastructure of the web?) It includes the photographer’s name, which is long overdue.

Here’s Uchida performing Schumann (via an embedded YouTube clip).