Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.women,net.music Subject: Re: Are men better pianists than women? Message-ID: <986@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 22:52:02 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.986 Posted: Sun Feb 5 22:52:02 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 09:49:39 EST References: <526@orca.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 10 A very perceptive essay. Do you know Busoni's edition of Bach? It's full of exhortations to the pianist to honor the "masculine" nature of Bach's music. Busoni's technical points are usually well taken, but to identify Bach's style with "masculinity" and that of the later Romantics with "femininity" offends history as well as the pianist. Col. George Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel