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Kenny Wood
mboxman64@yahoo.com

2008-05-08 11:15:31

Dear Miss Hewitt,

Your souvenir programme came in the mail yesterday and I have to tell you I read through it twice in the space of two hours (just as soon as I could open the envelope!) It's such a beautifully constructed programme and I absolutely love it! Having scoured literally hundreds of google hits (if not more) in the quest to learn more about your background and your musical viewpoints I learned more through your programme than I ever knew before. There is a wealth of biographical information inside that I wasn't aware of and so many photographs I'd never seen as well...I'm really quite fond of the pictures I'd never seen from your childhood and your early career. And then there's one insert that has had me riveted every time I open the book and it's that of the 23rd Goldberg variation from your own score...when I first saw it my eyes got wide and I actually said "Wow" (out loud!)
The story about your mother that you've included in the diary pieces section was so precious and moving and I love the sock photo!
I really must agree with Keith Shibuya who's programme contribution from Japan states "I cannot be the only one wishing to accompany Angela throughout her world tour..."
Thank you so very much for taking the time to put all of this together for all of us! It's much more than just a souvenir and I will cherish it always.

Wishing you sunshine, health and happiness,
Always,

Kenny

BUM SOO, KIM
pat2bach@naver.com
http://blog.naver.com/pat2bach
2008-05-08 08:01:24

I saw your comments about concert in Seoul. It makes me very suprise because it was my car(silver Infinity sedan) and it was right, "your performance"...^^
Actually, I also saw you in front of concert hall when you were crossing the street with korean woman(maybe translater). However, the time that I saw you is just 20 minutes before begining concert, so I couldn't immagine it was you... What a surprise~!!
Thank you for visiting Korea, it was an amzing performance. I really want to be able to see your concert in Seoul again soon.
Sincerly yours...
BUM SOO, KIM.. Big fan of yours from Seoul, Korea

Bob Willis

2008-05-06 07:07:11

Dear Angela,

This is from a devoted fan in Australia but I am sure you won't remember signing my CDs when you were here on tour with the ACO. I just wanted to say that I just purchased the Bach Tour Programme and DVD and am looking forward to receiving them. I have been following your Bach tour on your website and of course playing your recordings as I haven't been able to travel to any of the concerts.

I enjoy reading your website and love the way you write, with real warmth. I was sorry to hear of your loss earlier this year and was also surprised to hear about the significant birthday approaching later this year.

All the best with the Tour and in the meantime, I'll keep listening to your many CDs and keeping in touch through the website.

Best wishes
Bob Willis

Andres Lucas

2008-05-05 22:24:23

Angela..

5-04-2008 was simply magnificient... First time I ever saw you perform live and was mesmerized by your performance and interpretation of Bach..

Best of luck to you on your tour..

John McCutchion

2008-05-05 09:42:09

Dear Angela,
It was lovely to meet you again yesterday. Thank you for a wonderful recital. To me it was a revelation. I was back home in Coventry in about two and a half hours (without breaking any speed limits), well-sustained by the kindness of the two ladies next to me in the autograph queue who gave me some chocolate.
See you next time,
Bons voyages,
John McC.

Michael Krushnisky
MKrushnisky@dbiservices.com

2008-05-03 23:38:59

Hello Angela;

We recently had an opportunity to attend Sunday services at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa. The visit brought back such a wealth of wonderful memories of your Mom and yourself, the treat of your performances at Church, the Governor General's Christmas parties and of course the 6 years I spent in the choir with your brother, under the tutelage of your Dad. I treasure these all too infrequent moments back in time.

Yours truly,
Michael Krushnisky
MKrushnisky@dbiservices.com

John McCutchion

2008-04-26 10:17:40

Dear Miss Hewitt,

Approaching Chipping Campden on Thursday evening for Alfred Brendel's (farewell?) recital I had a pleasant reminder - when Shaun Rafferty played your recording of the Prelude and Fugue XIX -of your Goldberg recital there in May '06.
Unfortunately I missed Book 1 in London in January, but am now counting the days to Book 2.

John McCutchion.

Rosalind Kenworthy

2008-04-23 00:54:17

for Angela Hewitt, by Mariel Kinsey, after her Well Tempered Clavier, Finney Chapel, Oberlin April 4 and 6

BALANCED ON THE BARE BRANCH

the redtailed hawk
is leaning over
its pillowy white breast
concealing
how each feather
is fiercely quilled
into nothing
but instinct and intent

is poised like the pianist
who hovers over the keyboard
fingers whetted
in that moment
before
striking the notes
which overturn your world
forever.

Rosalind Kenworthy

2008-04-23 00:50:40

JOY HAPPENSMariel Kinsey
“ - - finds tongue to fling out broad its name - -”
Gerard Manley Hopkins

The first stanza of a poem byGerard Manley Hopkins reads: “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;/ As tumbled over rim in roundy wells/ Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s/ Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;/Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:/ Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;/ Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells;/ Crying What I do is me: for that I came.” (You must read this several times and outloud to get the swing and gist of it.)

This past week I had the great good fortune to attend two concerts of Angela Hewitt playing Bach’s The Well Tempered Clavier. Truly, she is a person living out that last phrase of Hopkins’: “What I do is me: for (this) I came!” The Well Tempered Clavier is a compilation of 48 Preludes and Fugues, progressing through all 24 major and minor keys. Every aspiring concert pianist has to deal with it as an exercise in keyboard virtuosity and interpretation. This was the first time I have listened to all of it, and my first time hearing Angela Hewitt in person, and here is some of what I can convey of this experience.

Bach is inexpressibly magnificent. So is Angela Hewitt. Together they danced, twirled, chased, mourned, crooned, sighed, shouted, stomped, soared and fell, questioned, pulled, resolved. Angela’s arms floated, and her fingers flew, her eyebrows twitched, her mouth smiled and her brow frowned. She leaned forward and leaned back, she shook her head in emphasis and concluded certain pieces with grand flourishes. (We were in the second row and could see it all!) It seemed that Angela Hewitt was reaching back through the centuries to the genius of Bach himself, was drawing him into the cells of her body, through her own musical sensibilities, and was pouring him back out through her arms and fingers onto the Steinway piano, and thence into our eager and astounded ears. When she stood for our applause at intermissions, she would look slightly stunned, as though she had lost track of where she was, and who we were. It was as though she had been -- as though she IS -- a servant of this music, a servant of that “for which she came.”

At the end of the second concert, after four and a half hours of immersion in Bach’s joyous complexity, a lovely thing happened, not generally noted by music critics, so I can tell it with impunity. On the third curtain call, as the standing ovation did not abate, Angela Hewitt decided to really soak it in. She stood there on the huge stage, looking around to all sides and up to the balcony, smiling and nodding, open and relaxed, absolutely in no hurry to leave. The faces she was nodding to (I turned to look) were wreathed in smiles; it seemed like we could clap forever. It was more than gratitude, ours for her and hers for us; it was JOY, in which we found ourselves immersed together, and nobody wanted to stop. And for quite a while we didn’t. Perhaps that is something about joy: when it happens, (and it’s something that can happen at any moment) joy is something that fills and engulfs and spreads. It is something that says “Yes! it is for THIS we came!”

Naoko Tanabe

2008-04-21 13:21:20

Dear Angela,

Last year a friend of mine introduced me to your fascinating Fantasia in C minor, BWV906 and a complete series of Invention and Sinfonia. Only one play on CD deck was enough for me to get fallen in love with the sound you produce. Since then I've been impatiently waiting for your recital in Tokyo. And at last Sunday, Apr.20th!, I could get everything out of my noisy mind and give myself over to such a comfortable excitment. Thank you very much for the beautiful and emotional performance. I look forward to your coming back next year, too!