Re: [ARSCLIST] What was/is "The Golden Age" ?

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Golden Age pianists include (almost) anybody who's dead. Anybody from that same 
era who lived forever (i.e. Rubinstein) is excluded. Any dead pianist you've 
never heard of (except Joyce Hatto) is Golden Age. Oscar Levant is not Golden 
Age. Anybody who ever won a competition is not Golden Age. Anybody who even 
ENTERED a competition is not Golden Age, unless he/she made one recording and 
then died in a horrible accident. Nervous breakdowns don't count..anybody can 
have one.

It's also a ballet by Shostakovich.

dl with tongue firmly in cheek

Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
> This topic came up the other day on the Google Classical Recording list.The topic was "golden age pianism".The idea was that Emile Von Sauer,and his contempories were golden age pianism,and Van Cliburn and his contempories were not.Over the  years,I have heard the term "golden age" applied to virtually everything from early piano rolls to early stereo Lps.Is there a clear definition,or is  this all a bunch of BS ? If there is to be such a deliniation,why not borrow the golden/silver/bronze age classification from comic book collecting ?
>                               Opening another can of worms,
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