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	<title>Pierre-Arnaud Dablemont, pianist</title>
	
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		<title>The pianist’s loneliness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Arnaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.pierre-arnaud-dablemont.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/loneliness1.jpg" alt="loneliness1" title="loneliness1" width="100" class="vignette" />Loneliness is an issue that quite often comes up in discussion with people who know and follow me. I work alone, I play alone, I like being alone most of the time, but isn't the feeling of loneliness heavy and suffocating? It is true that I don't meet my friends very often, I am not a big fan of mass meetings and that I avoid crowded places. But in another hand, I like chatting over the phone and mailing them.


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		<title>One year to change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Arnaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I have not written a post for a while... The recent weeks have been difficult and I had neither the desire nor  time to write something. Today I'm going back to my blog after a bad flu which has left me weak and tired. As usual, I didn't want to go and see a doctor, and that did not help. But here I am, at least partly. Partly, because I'm not playing the piano seriously these days.


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		<title>Pierre-Arnaud dablemont takes a sabbatical</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Arnaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 10 years of intense work, Pierre-Arnaud Dablemont takes a sabbatical. Until summer 2010, the pianist will not appear on stage. This nedded break, long-planned, will give the musician time and space for deep thinking.


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		<title>On rituals and lucky charms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Arnaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pianist's life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bizarre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interpreter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://en.pierre-arnaud-dablemont.com/?p=1001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.pierre-arnaud-dablemont.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/217-trefle.jpg" alt="trefle a quatre feuilles" title="trefle a quatre feuilles" width="100"  class="vignette" /> Last week I wrote here about going on stage and I evoked the "lucky charm". Today I will focus on pre-concert rituals as well as these charms. Some do not have rituals or lucky charms, and others elaborate complex rituals which become totally obsessive. Star's whim or real necessity?


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		<title>Going on stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Arnaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pianist's life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bizarre]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://en.pierre-arnaud-dablemont.com/?p=989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.pierre-arnaud-dablemont.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3carnegiehall.jpg" alt="carnegie hall" title="carnegie hall" width="200" height="134" class="vignette" />Concert evening, in the dressing-room. Tonight, I'll be playing a recital methodically prepared during the last weeks. Final moments before appearing on stage. Someone is knocking at the door. A glance in the mirror,last check for the presence of our good-luck stuffs and other necessities. It's time to go. A few more moments to wait backstage, and suddenly the stage manager asks if I'm ready, opens the door, and motions to me to go on stage.


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		<title>2010 has been declared Chopin year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Arnaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year represents an opportunity to honor a particular composer, and 2010 has been prepared actively. Indeed, pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin was born in 1810 and next year will be HIS year.  We will "discover" the genius of Chopin and his complete works will be played over and over again.


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		<title>How to choose a new piano</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pierrearnauddablemont-pianist/~3/aFZvlYfmexQ/how-choose-new-piano-960</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Arnaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musical life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here it is, you are close to your dream: owning you own new piano. You get the impression to reach a stage, but I tell you, the adventure has only just begun. You will see that choosing a piano isn't that easy. What range of price, which size? It is not that easy to find one's way around as each manufacturer has very convincing argument points. 


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		<title>Blog season 2: Independance</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pierrearnauddablemont-pianist/~3/zYlZam8WO7Y/blog-season-2-independance-948</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Arnaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's been a year already since I started writing this blog. After two months of well deserved rest, I am back on the web, I mean on my blog. It was a sincere pleasure to share my ideas and my wishes with you last year.


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		<title>Things that irritate us</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Arnaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking a few days ago with an eminent colleague pianist, expatriate as myself, who, while on holidays in her native country after several years of absence, was asked by friends what she was doing in life. She naturally answered: <em> "I play the piano" </ em>. Not satisfied with this answer, they asked her what she was <em>seriously</em> doing in life. Tragic... isn't it? But all musicians will tell you, it's typical!


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		<title>Recording is never so easy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre-Arnaud</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[recordings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To all those saying that recording is easy, I say, perhaps they should pay a visit to a studio. Of course, you can cut, past, redo, but it is not always an advantage.
The first shock when recording is a bit like the one you feel when hearing your own voice for the first time. Years [...]


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