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Fanny Waterman

lines on the record: 41
first: 2010-07-04
most recent: 2010-07-04
sittings or episodes: 1
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“The diary of a nobody by George and Whedon Grossmith Because I can amuse myself with the recollections of so many people with their quirks and eccentricities who have passed through my life. Mr and Mrs Puta were pathetic, pudentious, pompous and social climbers. And we've all come across these people at all levels, and perhaps we can recognise some of these trays in ourselves.”
2010-07-04 · Desert Island Discs · Dame Fanny Waterman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While this was our symphony whenever we heard it, we used to sit in the auditorium and hold hands because we felt it belonged to us when we first met, and it'll live with me forever.”
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“Not really because they lived in London, and I don't think they had the right teaching, but never mind I love them just the same.”
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“who would have been thrilled and I have to feel when I meet new people oh but if you would have only met Geoffrey and I just am still with him if you know what I mean”
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“Well, at the beginning I was desperate and felt I couldn't go on, and then I pulled myself together and said he would wish me to go on, and I've never worked harder in my life. I mean then I was just chairman and artistic director now I see the program through every detail that perhaps he might have done proofreading I'm involved with now and people say that in a way I've blossomed since then because he was such a powerful person maybe I stood back very often and so in a way have felt that I've been on my own but I've got to prove myself”
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“I've chosen the Beauzard trio playing the opening of the second movement of Schubert's piano trio in B flat because how can I live without Schubert?”
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“Well, I think you'd have to ask the artist. I think they feel so because to play and study the masterpieces of, say, the great piano literature is something that is inspirational. To be able to be in commune with these gods, the composers, and I think they think it's worth the sacrifice.”
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“While this little pitness isn't going to be a great pin, is but to be accomplished because to play an instrument especially the piano is an accomplishment which helps you and nurtures you all your life it opens all doors local, national, international.”
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“Oh yes and I would say let's experiment, let's see how he or she enjoys the lessons and if we feel we can't make progress let's be honest I've done a lot of adjudicating in the far east and the children begin at the ages four and five and they're playing grand pianos like masters here they don't start early enough I'm afraid and I don't think it's treated with the same seriousness you know I had a pupil and her mother came and said Annabelle can't come for a lesson next week she's got a swimming gala I said well there's six other days in the week this wouldn't happen with my Chinese pupil they would never miss the lesson”
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“Yes, and my husband pulled his weight. No, I think we were devoted parents. I never neglected them because of my workload.”
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“Well, I just devoted myself to them Robert and Paul came back from school. Neither of them wanted to learn the piano. They only wanted to start with concertos. I wanted them on fifthing exercises, but that didn't work, and so they learnt the violin, and both of them played in the National Youth Orchestra.”
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“He's going to play the first part of the first movement of Beethoven's third piano concerto. It has authority, passion and integrity.”
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“No, he didn't have a point, because if I wouldn't have intervened, Radu might not have played in the finals. Clifford Curson, great pianist, though he was, didn't vote for Radulpool, and so he was one short. And I followed Clifford into the green room, and he had his hands folded in prayer, and he said Thanks be to God that I heard that performance. I said, But Clifford, you didn't vote for him. He said I was so sure he'd go through that I voted for a weaker one. So he was not the best member of a jury.”
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“That's right, but I intervened, and Jeffrey wasn't very pleased with me because it wasn't my right to intervene after this jury had made up their minds”
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“Well, I know how difficult this career is for people to get to the top, and Marie Pariah, for example, had played twice with a New York Philimony, but he had to come to Leeds to be recognised, and Radalupo had come first in the Van Clyben competition, but he risked everything to come to Leeds because of our wonderful engagements and opportunities”
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“Not unreasonably because he was a Londoner, but I said I'll show you, and I rang Marion, who was then the Countess of Harwood, and now is Mrs. Jeremy Thorpe. She was a great friend of mine, and she'd brought her eldest son, David Lassels for lessons. I didn't manage to make David into a pianist, but it forced a wonderful friendship between Marion and myself.”
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“Yes. Have you a success? He was brilliant, not only medicine and music, but everything. He was never ambitious for himself, even though he could have gone much further in his career, but he only wanted the best for me, and he wanted me to get to the top of where I was going.”
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“No because the replacement was the wonderful teaching. At one point I had five prodigies they played with a great conductor's Barbirley, Drulini, Sir Malcolm Sargent, and one by one they left me because they considered that I was the local piano teacher and I was jolly lucky to have the most pupils, which of course I was because they were very talented, and I was very miserable when they left me, and I said to my husband one morning when I woke up I think I'm going to do for the rest of the world pinnis what I've done for my own pupils.”
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“No. Whatever decision I have made in my life I seem to be content with it. I was in love and I had two children and I realized that in those days if you could afford it, you could get a nanny or a housekeeper, but we couldn't afford it.”
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“Exactly Well, I made a decision that I would prefer to be happily married to adopt her rather than travel the world and live out of a suitcase.”
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“Well, within a week he said after meeting me, he said I would like to marry you, and I think it was love at first sight, and he used to say to me every day he loved me, and I one day challenged him with it and said, What do you love about me? And he said, You're so unpredictable for that put me down a place or two.”
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“We were introduced by a friend, and at that time I hated my name and he was called De Kaiser, and I thought he was very handsome, and I liked him straight away, but I thought Fanny de Kaiser, that sounds great. How quickly?”
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“I remember I wasn't even nervous because I was playing with two other pins the Bach Triple Pianceto, but I made a conscious decision later that I did not want to be a concertist.”
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“I was very lucky many years ago to meet Benjamin Britton and Peter Piers, but I did get to know Ben, and he was in my house worrying about his performance in the evening of Dinterizer, and I said, Ben, the notes are not all that difficult on the copy. Why are you so nervous? And he said, My dear, it's because there's so few notes on the page, and you've to conjure up a world of sound. And I walked with him when I was in Audor along the beach, and I notice here his reaction to the sky and the effect it had on the waves, and he loved the sea. And so I thought it would be wonderful to include one of his great pieces.”
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“And he wrote in his adjudication Fanny treats the piano like a box of toys, inviting Brother Harry to join in, but there was a slight family disagreement on the top of page four bar five.”
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“I've never stopped he comes whenever he's got a new concerto or a new program to play. It's a different kind of a lesson, but we speak on a different level.”
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“Well, because he has been a lifelong pupil, a loyal pupil, and I think he is a brilliant British pianist, and I'd like to say about teaching that it is the greatest profession in my opinion in the world the relationship between a teacher and a pupil is something very precious. You're not only a teacher, you're a psychiatrist, you encourage them in moments of despair. It's the most wonderful relationship, and I think we owe a debt to all our teachers.”
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“No, terrible. And used to do the cooking and baking at the same time as teaching. I only hope her culinary talents were better than her teaching, and it was only when I was eighteen and someone heard me a distinguished musician heard me and suggested that I had lessons with Tobias Mate, who was eighty six, and his fees were two guinea's half an hour, three guineas three quarters of an hour and four guineas an hour, and my father could only afford the two guineas half an hour, and I went to London very rarely to have this half an hour lesson.”
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“I think they were music lovers, and there was an upright piano, and I got onto the stool when I was four oh five and would play the dishes of the day kind of tiptoeed through the tulips, but that kind of thing”
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“Their values like them because they simply had the money to buy his works of art, and so if he didn't like them he didn't open his safe. So I've inherited some of those beautiful pieces, but I think that their values have helped me throughout my life because I've never chosen my friends from certain circles. I chose people because they're real. And I married somebody who had the same values, and I think that's very important in life.”
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“Well we were an impoverished family really my father came from Russia at the turn of century where he'd learnt to be a drawer but in those days he wasn't in the kind of circle where anyone would be bang his beautiful pieces of jewelry and we lived in a house that didn't have an inside bathroom we shared the loose with five neighbours and I don't think I realized really that we were rock bottom and so at that time my parents gave me one of the greatest gifts to have the right values in life to never value anything that money can buy like fine houses, fine cars. And jury, even though he was a jury,”
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“The Brandenburg of Bach I'm a great party girl. I love holding musical evening, I love going to parties, and so I want to be reminded of those wonderful moments where I was transported because I enjoyed myself so much, and I remember my late mother saying to me when I was very young all you want to do is enjoy yourself, at which I used to burst into tears as if it was really disgraceful, then when I got married, and she said it, I said, Do you know, you're absolutely right.”
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“Well, I think they do, and if I could just mention that many great women artists pianists and singers make a decision not to have children, because I think they feel that they can't do justice to bringing up a family, and when a woman is a great artist they have a tenderness for Even more in my opinion, than any great man artist is the very lonely life and the people.”
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“Well, they need support and I think that they're very lucky if they meet somebody, as I know that Mary and Radu have wonderful wives who understand them and give them all the kind of support that they need behind the scenes. It's such a strain to go on the platform and perform. And what about the travelling and living out of a suitcase?”
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“Wonderful family relationship I'm very proud of them, and in fact Radulupu said if I fitted in with his schedule, he will tram fit in with my schedule when I have my birthday and imagine my delight when I was told that he was coming over, especially to give a Schubert recital to help me celebrate my ninetieth birthday. What?”
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“Well he made that Steinway because we only have one piano different from many international competitions where there's a choice of piano, but the moment he came and played that piano he made his sound right the greatest piano in the world quite differently from anybody else”
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“Murray Pyre, playing part of the second movement of Mozart's closeto twenty one with the English Chamber Orchestra. He is a prince of pianists.”
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“I feel that I'm in their shoes they've been examining every note of every beat of every bar, and I think it's one of the wonders of music that we see these dots and dashes on the pages, and there was Marie Pariah making his first steps to fame and Radalupu, and I think here is something a new baby is born.”
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“Of course it is. If you're going to meet people or go on the stage, then you have to consider your body language, how you look, and in life, I think it's very important to have that kind of elegance that goes with a musician.”
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“Oh yes I was at school and my school motto was in minimus fidelis faithful in little things and the headmistress Nora J. Henderson used to deliver little homilies about you must make the most of your talents and she turned me into being a perfectionist. I might be difficult to work for and to live with, but fortunately I married Geoffrey de Kaiser who was also a perfectionist.”
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“Oh no, it's like a military operation and people call me Field Marshal Fanny. I'm a busy britches, and I've got to know what's happening on every front, but I must say that the Yorkshire hospitality is outstanding. We've got a team of marvellous people who are all volunteers giving their time and help.”
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