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ok... perhaps I'm wrong. but I did read that somewhere. I'm pretty sure. and he openly admits his fear of recording.

Yep. He's the one. The Canadian pianist with perfect posture.

Stevie Wonder, without a doubt.

Bill Evans..with better posture

"Who would you be if you could be any famous pianist. Alive or deceased?"

Diana Krall.

Randy Newman, for starters. : )

Don't know, Sandy. The 2nd movement of the 7th Symphony is *very* sad. I wouldn't be surprised if he had been constantly depressed. I know I would be had I been in his position.

Really? Why not Thomas? A much more intriguing musical mind, IMHO of course.

Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Erin Brokovich, Road To Perdition are all very interesting soundtracks that he wrote.

Considering only the piano aspect, Chopin.

Otherwise, Bach, for his faith.

I'd like to be Josef Hofmann for a few days (or maybe a few weeks...or months... ). Considered by many to be one of the greatest pianists of all time, Hofmann had a colossal memory, extraordinary technical skill, and a complete grasp of the entire repertoire of his day. I'd like to know what it feels like to be an uber-virtuoso like this!

From the Wikipedia entry on Hofmann:
"Once Hofmann had learned a piece of music, it was apparently in his mind and fingers for good. This was fortunate for Hofmann, for he reportedly never practiced. In the diary his wife kept during his 1909 tour, she mentions his raising his eyebrows when he saw Brahms' Handel Variations on a program—a piece he had not played or even looked at for two and a half years. He played the work at the concert without a thought or hesitation.

Hofmann, reportedly, also had the ability to hear a composition just once and play it back flawlessly without seeing the printed note. Again, this was fortunate—Hofmann was a poor sight reader. Rosina Lhevinne, wife of pianist Josef Lhevinne and a virtuoso pianist in her own right, claimed Hofmann heard her husband play Franz Liszt's Lorelei, a piece Hofmann had supposedly never studied or heard. Hofmann played it as an encore at his concert that evening."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Hofmann

Hey Strat,

I haven't seen any of those movies yet, but with 6 grandkids, I bet I've seen Randy Newman's "Toy Story" work at least 1000 times : ). Kids aren't satisfied to see a movie once, they have to see it four times per day. "Cars" is the hot one right now and with an 8 month old waiting in the wings, we'll be doing it all over next year. But it's worth it.

Randy's a Louisiana guy too / New Orleans.

But, I will make it a point to listen to Thomas' work.

Wish I could figure out how to do the quotations thing here at PW. Thanks for the Thomas tip.......