蕭邦:最像貓的作曲家 The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer

The New York Times, August 04, 2017     

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/arts/music/jeremy-denk-chopin.html?_r=0

accessed August 7, 2017

●哥倫比亞大學漢學研究是美國第一所。它的來源竟是一位華人文盲捐出一生忠心作僕人所的...。感人而真實的故事。誠摯推薦。

林中斌 2017.7.23

●為什麼蕭邦像貓？他敏感而優雅。
●為什麼李斯特像狗？ 他熱情、友善、太急於討好。
●美國當今名鋼琴家和音樂散文家 Jeremy Denk 如是說。

林中斌 2017.8.7

●Chopin was sensitive like a cat.

● Liszt …had many virtues but was never as subtle or tasteful as Chopin: He was an enthusiastic, friendly dog, often too eager to please.

●The quintessential Chopin gesture is to mark a bass note staccato while instructing you to put down the pedal. Why would you play short and then let the sound linger?...It creates a different timbre, and a different meaning：a release that remains. The foundation, the deepest note, is left as light, pillowy：a perfect analogue to cat’s paw, the sense of grace that lifts from below.                                                                                                                                       

Excerpted by Chong-Pin Lin August 7, 2017