The Telegraph 29 Mar. 2015 By Anna van Praagh ..."Alice Sara Ott gets a lot of attention for her looks and her quirks - but it is her unique musical personality that will keep her at the top ... She looks like a supermodel, often takes the stage in a ball gown and bare feet and, she tells me, has a great fondness for neat scotch. ... “The world of classical music is a very hard world and the people who survive are just a few. One minute you are very popular, four years later no one has heard of you. It could all be over tomorrow. That’s what I want to avoid. I want to be around in 20 or 30 years, doing what I love, I don’t want to be a shooting star.” ... With her elfin features, porcelain skin and jet black hair, she is breathtakingly beautiful, and not averse to posing for photo-shoots highlighting that beauty. Does she feel under pressure as a female artist to exploit her sex appeal? ... “I know where my limits are,” she says crisply. “If I do a photo-shoot I must feel comfortable. I know what I will do and I know what I won’t do.” ... She believes that the classical music world is far more egalitarian than it once was. ... Are her love of whisky (she favours Talisker, Laphroaig and Lagavulin ), her habit of warming up her hands before a concert by solving the Rubik’s cube (she can complete it within a minute), and her trademark bare feet simply ways of making sure she stands out in a crowded market? No, nothing so calculated she says. ... “There’s no commercial reason for performing in bare feet. It makes me comfortable and it gets hot under the spotlight so it’s nice to feel the cold pedals on my feet.” ... The Rubik’s cube is practical and the whisky - well, she just happens to like single malts. ... However, such quirks do help make her more - dread word - “accessible” to audiences that might not normally be attracted to classical music and that is something about which she is passionate. ... “I want to remove the notion that classical music is just something for rich educated people,” she says. “It’s not. You don’t have to be educated to enjoy classical music, you get educated by listening to it.” ... “That’s why for me it is so important to be a really good musician rather than someone who just looks good on stage,” she muses, “Because then I am replaceable. If I have a unique musical personality, I hope that people will wait for me.” GIDON KREMER : ...die Tage der "verwegenen Burschen und wunderschönen Mädchen", die das Publikum verführen, sind gezählt. Sie werden schon bald abgelöst werden von ... ihresgleichen! Ein in der Öffentlichkeit zum "Superstar" promovierter Künstler verleiht der vorgetragenen Musik keine zusätzlichen Feinheiten.Sein Name, dekliniert, konjugiert, geschätzt, verkauft, gefeiert, zu Lebzeiten lautstark bejubelt, wird ...in VERGESSENHEIT geraten. ...."In der heutigen Zeit der Massenaufläufe und Vergnügungen wird es als besonders "cool" betrachtet, sich nach dem populären Geschmack zu richten. ...Indessen verführt man uns dazu, die Treue zur Musik zu vergessen und uns im Namen des Erfolges (oder Umsatzes?) "hinzugeben" (das Wort entspricht sogar der Handlung!) - Hauptsache, der "Kunde" (der Hörer!) ist zufrieden. Erinnert so eine Haltung nicht an ein Bordell? ..."
The uncertainty of waiting for Frigate in an empty port at the Captain's doubt is mixed with a slight breeze of the ocean breeze carrying the promise of adventure and Deeping self- doubt. Poetry Stories niepewność oczekiwania Fregaty w pustym porcie na Kapitana zwątpienie miesza się z lekkim powiewem bryzy znad oceanu niosącą obietnicę przygody i pogłębiające się zwątpienie
Everything here is clear, intimate, expressive, knit together and elegant.
The Telegraph 29 Mar. 2015
By Anna van Praagh
..."Alice Sara Ott gets a lot of attention for her looks and her
quirks - but it is her unique musical personality that will keep her at
the top ...
She looks like a supermodel, often takes the stage in a ball gown and
bare feet and, she tells me, has a great fondness for neat scotch. ...
“The world of classical music is a very hard world and the people who
survive are just a few. One minute you are very popular, four years
later no one has heard of you. It could all be over tomorrow. That’s
what I want to avoid. I want to be around in 20 or 30 years, doing what I
love, I don’t want to be a shooting star.” ...
With her elfin features, porcelain skin and jet black hair, she is
breathtakingly beautiful, and not averse to posing for photo-shoots
highlighting that beauty. Does she feel under pressure as a female
artist to exploit her sex appeal? ...
“I know where my limits are,” she says crisply. “If I do a photo-shoot I
must feel comfortable. I know what I will do and I know what I won’t
do.” ...
She believes that the classical music world is far more egalitarian than
it once was. ...
Are her love of whisky (she favours Talisker, Laphroaig and Lagavulin ),
her habit of warming up her hands before a concert by solving the
Rubik’s cube (she can complete it within a minute), and her trademark
bare feet simply ways of making sure she stands out in a crowded market?
No, nothing so calculated she says. ...
“There’s no commercial reason for performing in bare feet. It makes me
comfortable and it gets hot under the spotlight so it’s nice to feel the
cold pedals on my feet.” ...
The Rubik’s cube is practical and the whisky - well, she just happens to
like single malts. ...
However, such quirks do help make her more - dread word - “accessible”
to audiences that might not normally be attracted to classical music and
that is something about which she is passionate. ...
“I want to remove the notion that classical music is just something for
rich educated people,” she says. “It’s not. You don’t have to be
educated to enjoy classical music, you get educated by listening to it.”
...
“That’s why for me it is so important to be a really good musician
rather than someone who just looks good on stage,” she muses, “Because
then I am replaceable. If I have a unique musical personality, I hope
that people will wait for me.” GIDON KREMER :
...die Tage der "verwegenen Burschen und wunderschönen Mädchen", die das
Publikum verführen, sind gezählt. Sie werden schon bald abgelöst werden
von ... ihresgleichen! Ein in der Öffentlichkeit zum "Superstar"
promovierter Künstler verleiht der vorgetragenen Musik keine
zusätzlichen Feinheiten.Sein Name, dekliniert, konjugiert, geschätzt,
verkauft, gefeiert, zu Lebzeiten lautstark bejubelt, wird ...in
VERGESSENHEIT geraten.
...."In der heutigen Zeit der Massenaufläufe und Vergnügungen
wird es als besonders "cool" betrachtet, sich nach dem populären
Geschmack zu richten. ...Indessen verführt man uns dazu, die Treue zur
Musik zu vergessen und uns im Namen des Erfolges (oder Umsatzes?)
"hinzugeben" (das Wort entspricht sogar der Handlung!) - Hauptsache, der
"Kunde" (der Hörer!) ist zufrieden. Erinnert so eine Haltung nicht an
ein Bordell? ..."
Gorgeous Alice!
To pre-iterate, everything here is clear, intimate, expressive, knit together and elegant.
to quote another commentor: Everything here is clear, intimate, expressive, knit together and elegant.
Excelente y exquisita pianista
Amazing playing. Your dynamics are really good and your playing is very neat also when your playing you look very calm
Makes the heart sing!❤
Einfach schoen!
Nossa! que bela mulher, que sensibilidade ao tocar o teclado, que bela música.
❤❤
To quote another commentor: "To pre-iterate, everything here is clear, intimate, expressive, knit together and elegant."
0:53 One repetition is missing here.
bravo!
私はあなたを愛しているアリス
The uncertainty of waiting for Frigate in an empty port at the Captain's doubt is mixed with a slight breeze of the ocean breeze carrying the promise of adventure and Deeping self- doubt. Poetry Stories
niepewność oczekiwania Fregaty w pustym porcie na Kapitana zwątpienie miesza się z lekkim powiewem bryzy znad oceanu niosącą obietnicę przygody i pogłębiające się zwątpienie
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Fantastic...........but can she play "Crocodile Rock" ?????
アリスさんのシューマン初めて聴きます。アリスさんのロマンスはまだなんですかねえ！無い方が良いに決まってますけれど。