Getting Ready

“A pianist prepares: his wife attends his needs. In the artist’s room, great musicians are on the walls. “As everyone knows, you get nervous before a concert. The Bedoins have an exercise before they go out hunting.” This was not a real concert, but it really was 1960 and Frangcon Davies really plays Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin; and he and his wife (not his real wife) are being interviewed 35 years later to tell us how they were then: and the focus, the isolating preoccupation even, needed for any big event.” (Thom Osborn)