PROVOCATIVE THOUGHTS:
The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Classical Music and Politics, including contributions from Béla Hartmann and James Ross.
Romanian-born pianist and teacher Robert Weisz was born to Hungarian parents at Arad on 25 June 1925. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest with Annie Fischer and Béla Böszörmenyi-Nagy, at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dinu Lipatti (winning first prize in the Geneva International Competition for Musical Performers), in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and in London with Myra Hess. He took Swiss nationality in 1963 and Canadian in 1975, settling in Quebec. He formed a two-piano team with Jeanne Landry and made several recordings with cellist Paul Tortelier. His pupils included Jacinthe Couture and Michel Franck. Weisz died on 11 June 2013, aged eighty-seven.