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Thread #131239 Message #2958832
Posted By: George Papavgeris
05-Aug-10 - 11:47 AM
Thread Name: Review: Grapelli! Wow!
Subject: RE: Review: Grapelli! Wow!
Some years back, Stephane Grapelli appeared in a documentary with Yehudi Menuhin. They were both getting on in years but clearly still masters of their art. They played together a classical piece, and a folk piece, I can't remember what they were, but the folk piece was Hungarian, I think. In the classical piece there was nothing to distinguish the two. But in the folk piece Stephane, with his jazz-won flair for improvisation, free ornamentation and note bending rose clearly heads and shoulders above Yehudi, whose classical training proved too stilted a background to help him interpret folk music. It goes to show - not sure what, but it does...