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Why is this a thread? It's just a transgender who happens to be a pianist.

The only thing I thought was interesting was that she wrote the article herself.

You would possibly be justified in asking 'why is this a thread' if transgendered people were treated no differently in modern society to anybody else. The world would be a much better place if everybody had the same reaction as you to this article. But the fact is that in most countries, transgendered people are still attacked in the streets, insulted in the media and treated with suspicion even by otherwise very liberally minded people. So to me, the fact that a transgendered concert pianist has been taken to heart by her audiences and is enjoying some success is a generally very conservative industry is an uplifting sign.

You're right Joel. Thank you. You're also right Debrucey, ta; it is my experience that transgendered (well, openly so, obviously) persons are by far and large the most misunderstood and loathed sector of society. Schizophrenics are misunderstood (it's not a *bleepy bleep bleep* dissociative identity disorder), but not as despised...

It's not as monstrously inflated as you might think! However, he did drop some variations, redistribute passages to avoid the nasty hand-crossings, grouped them into sets of variations (forms an arch ala Bach's Chaconne), and made a few other changes. It's clearly not for purists, and while I prefer the original, it's interesting to listen to occasionally, and Buechner certainly plays it well.

Let us group them or not how we see fit, thank you.





I suppose not.

Thank you, I will have to read more about it. It's still hard for me to understand how one can "feel" so clearly that they are male or female, and what it really means to be a man or a woman in one's mind. I suppose it just never mattered much to me.

I wasn't aware of her background, though it's interesting to read about. I'll continue to admire her playing and pedagogical work the same way, regardless.