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My former teacher #1449747 06/03/10 08:14 PM
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 769 Rio de Janeiro deAlmeida OP 500 Post Club Member
OP deAlmeida 500 Post Club Member Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 769 Rio de Janeiro	We had only 3 lessons, didn't work out because of the personality of both, but he is a great pianist. See a video of him playing on a crappy piano of the Conservatorie. He is 71 years old.

Re: My former teacher deAlmeida #1449749 06/03/10 08:15 PM
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 6,437 Seattle area, WA Gooddog 6000 Post Club Member
Gooddog 6000 Post Club Member Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 6,437 Seattle area, WA	Are you implying that 71 is old???? Best regards, Deborah

Re: My former teacher deAlmeida #1449750 06/03/10 08:16 PM
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 769 Rio de Janeiro deAlmeida OP 500 Post Club Member
OP deAlmeida 500 Post Club Member Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 769 Rio de Janeiro	And here's another one, on a better piano

Re: My former teacher Gooddog #1449753 06/03/10 08:17 PM
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 769 Rio de Janeiro deAlmeida OP 500 Post Club Member
OP deAlmeida 500 Post Club Member Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 769 Rio de Janeiro	Originally Posted by gooddog Are you implying that 71 is old???? no, sorry for by bad english, I'm saying that he's age is 71, of course I'm not calling him old pejoratively

Re: My former teacher deAlmeida #1449757 06/03/10 08:28 PM
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,662 San Jose, CA J jeffreyjones 2000 Post Club Member
jeffreyjones 2000 Post Club Member J Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,662 San Jose, CA	Strange style. The hard attacks on the cantabile lines really work against a legato feel, I can't agree with it.

Re: My former teacher jeffreyjones #1449904 06/04/10 01:42 AM
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 10,856 London, UK (though if it's Aug... keyboardklutz Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
keyboardklutz Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member Joined: May 2007 Posts: 10,856 London, UK (though if it's Aug...	No great loss. In the first video the flat fingers are interesting but tooo tense. The second I had to switch off at the beginning - you can't hunch your shoulders like that! Thanks for posting though, quite fascinating.

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