Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It has been joked that Captain Cook discovered Australia, but Barry Humphries rediscovered it. Simon Elliott (2002) 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Australia’s deadliest creatures… classicaltexts.wixsite.com/mooneeponds 100
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026'Jorge Bolet's performances have been, for us, the most memorable we have heard in concerts, because they have helped us to understand Liszt's music, sometimes so poorly executed & without relief.' Sergio Escobar, La Nacion (8.6.1984), Santiago de Chile. jorgebolet.wixsite.com/boletjorgebolet.wixsite.comJorge Bolet | Cuban-American PianistThe most extensive biography on the web of the legendary Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet (1914-1990) 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Looks like “Bones” would break his hair if he had a fall. 010
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I recall ordering a celebrated pudding in a restaurant in New Orleans, The Commander’s Palace. You had to order it at the start in order to allow preparation, and it was very sweet. When a waiter afterwards asked one woman if he could bring her anything else, she said: “Just a dentist!” 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I wonder how many people are going to say in the future: “I didn’t know him. I don’t recall. I never worked with him.” 010
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I may also say that I get fed up seeing a new Japanese translation in a bookshop, picking it up eagerly, only to find it’s about cats or coffee. Again 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Have read some Japanese crime fiction but not the horror stuff though I’ve seen Uketsu on the shelves. Thanks for the article link. I might start now…and I’ve also learned a new word: creepypasta. 100
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Describe your music taste with only three artists. No genres allowed! 1 Jorge Bolet 2 Alfred Brendel 3 András Schiff 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 12/07/2026One of my favourite New Yorker cartoons: “Miss Duggan, can you send someone in here who can distinguish right from wrong?” 010
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Jorge Bolet, the legendary Cuban American pianist "Only David Oistrakh received the sort of ovation this audience gave Mr Bolet" (Berlin, 1961) jorgebolet.wixsite.com/bolet 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 08/06/2026University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Inaugural Nicholas Arthur Kilburn Memorial Concert Jorge Bolet played on a brand new $26,000 dollar Steinway. "Never has a piano been broken in as epically, as thrillingly as the new Steinway was this night." 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Gusztáv Fenyő recently wrote I played for Jorge Bolet in Sydney when he was on tour (1977): Chopin's fourth ballade. When I asked him, do you play much Beethoven, he answered "You don't have to play Beethoven to be a good pianist" GF was my piano teacher (1983) jorgebolet.wixsite.com/bolet/post/g...jorgebolet.wixsite.comGusztáv Fenyő and Jorge Bolet: Beethoven'I played for Bolet in Sydney when he was on tour (1969 or 70): Chopin's fourth ballade. He was very complimentary. When I asked him, do you play much Beethoven, he answered 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Out of the blue, I find this has just appeared. Martinů Symphonies, Jakub Hrůša. A necessary addition to all my other sets! 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 08/05/2026You'll not find more about Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli online than here... jorgebolet.wixsite.com/michelangeli 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Hungarian uses the ö and ü for short front rounded vowels, similar to German. Is that not an umlaut? 110
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Ha! I know quite a lot of the Hungarian language now, but many years ago when I didn't and had a piano teacher from Budapest, I was writing a cheque for the lesson and I asked; "Do I put an umlaut on final letter?" and he said "That one's a diacritic". Fenyő 110
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Well actually, "mutatis mutandis" and all that, I thought of Kenneth Williams going into overdrive during an awkward moment with Nicholas Parsons... 130
Reposted by Moon PavilionJack Caramac @jackcaramac.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Brilliant from Aisling Bea. 33922199
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Jorge Bolet, pianista legendario, cubano-estadounidense (1914-1990) jorgebolet.wixsite.com/espanol 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Me atrevería a decir que este sitio web dedicado al pianista Jorge Bolet ofrece la información más detallada sobre él en español, tanto en Internet como en formato impreso. jorgebolet.wixsite.com/espanol 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 30/04/2026My knowledge of Greek history is my Archimedes' heel. 000
Reposted by Moon PavilionDavid Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I'll pass, thanks. 383
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Jorge Bolet 1977, Miami Beach, Florida "Liszt's Dante Sonata is flamboyant, duskily romantic, highly bravura. Bolet made it all of that and magnificently so. He spun the music into a dark foam that filled the big hall with the essence of an era." jorgebolet.wixsite.com/boletjorgebolet.wixsite.comJorge Bolet | Cuban-American PianistThe most extensive biography on the web of the legendary Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet (1914-1990) 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 25/04/2026¿Sabías que existe una completa página web en español dedicada al legendario pianista cubano-estadounidense Jorge Bolet? jorgebolet.wixsite.com/espanoljorgebolet.wixsite.comJorge Bolet Pianista | cubanoamericanoJorge Bolet pianista cubanoamericano; cubano, nacionalizado estadounidense. Estudió en el Instituto Curtis de Filadelfia. Bolet condujo el estreno japonés de The Mikado. Volvió al primer plano en 1... 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 25/04/2026In Scotland the forbidden fruit is fruit. Gary Delaney 010
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Jorge Bolet, Toronto 1975 'When you consider, he's been playing professionally for more than 40 years, he seems to have taken his time getting up here. But then, as he says "I've been a long time arriving everywhere."’ jorgebolet.wixsite.com/boletjorgebolet.wixsite.comJorge Bolet | Cuban-American PianistThe most extensive biography on the web of the legendary Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet (1914-1990) 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Two things I recall from Split. Diocletian’s Palace - well, I am an ancient historian. The cocktails - seemed to be half the price of anywhere else in Europe. Blue Lagoons, I’m looking at you… 010
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 18/04/2026My confirmed bachelor uncle always describes himself as “Asexual”, but I would also add “B: Gay” Gary Delaney, comedian 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Jorge Bolet, the legendary Cuban American pianist "Only David Oistrakh received the sort of ovation this audience gave Mr Bolet." (Berlin, 1961) jorgebolet.wixsite.com/bolet 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Jorge Bolet plays Liszt's first concerto. August 1972, Meadow Brook, Michigan 'To hear the old warhorse performed thus gave the secure feeling of entrusting a favourite antique to an experienced craftsman for restoration.' (James E. Harvey, The Flint Journal) jorgebolet.wixsite.com/boletjorgebolet.wixsite.comJorge Bolet | Cuban-American PianistThe most extensive biography on the web of the legendary Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet (1914-1990) 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The problem is going to be compounded when Pete sends the might of the US navy to blockade the Holy See. 110
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Jorge Bolet, Chopin Preludes, Fair Lawn High School, New Jersey, January 1971 (who needs Carnegie Hall!) "His D minor prelude which closes the book (do you recall it from the old movie, The picture of Dorian Gray?) was a massive gate of hell clanging shut." jorgebolet.wixsite.com/boletjorgebolet.wixsite.comJorge Bolet | Cuban-American PianistThe most extensive biography on the web of the legendary Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet (1914-1990) 010
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Is it true that Pete Hegseth is going to send the US Navy to blockade the Holy See? 010
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 11/04/2026This just popped through the letterbox. Mario Vargas Llosa’s last novel, the USA edition; British one’s not due out till August. It’s also been published in numerous European languages before English. The publishing world is a nuisance. 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Waiting for the right moment to wear this splendid shirt, bought in Samoa a couple of weeks ago 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Arlington Heights, Illinois (1963) One lady wrote to a newspaper that while she had enjoyed Jorge Bolet's recital, she objected to the Billy Wilder film Irma la Douce "with its unsavory plot being shown in the only theatre in this town- my teenagers will not be attending". 000
Moon Pavilion @moonpavilion.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Jorge Bolet in Brahms's 2nd concerto, Coventry, 30.9.1963 "The biggest disappointment. The poetic feeling of the music and the vast emotional proportions of it were missing..." "Magisterial indeed: mightily resonant, deeply poetic, spaciously intellectual." Music critics, eh?media.tenor.coma woman in a sequined dress says raving reviews on a stageALT: a woman in a sequined dress says raving reviews on a stage 000