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That Certainly Was a Performance!; In the Greenroom, Where Artists Meet Audience, Diplomatic Neutrality Is Crucial
1995
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\"It's a human need,\" said Ruth Laredo, the pianist. \"After all that expenditure of energy, you don't want to go home and feel horrible. You're so vulnerable after a performance, particularly if it wasn't up to your standards. It's like your baby, and you don't want anybody to talk badly about it. You can't say something bad about somebody else's children. A lot of love goes into it, and you want it to be fine, and sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. I always say 'bravo' and 'congratulations.' \" Beverly Sills, the soprano, has special feelings for, \"Oh, what a nice performance.\" \"The last word you want to hear after screaming your lungs out for three hours,\" she said, \"was that it was 'nice.' \" Mr. [Misha Dichter] helped a fan in Tubingen, Germany, who looked askance when he signed her program. \"This doesn't say Claudio Arrau!\" she protested. When he explained that he wasn't -- he had filled in for the ailing pianist at the last minute -- \"She looked crestfallen, handed it back to me and said, 'Bitte' -- please,\" he recalled. \"I signed his name and she just lit up. She was a happy woman.\"
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