Hans von Bülow piano music

[Hovite]

Our modern day Bulow, if there is indeed such a character, is aided by fast, comfortable transport (usually!), decent hotels (Bulow loved hot water and clean towels), insurance arrangements, supportive agents and concert managers, pills and potions to hold bugs at bay, carefully planned diets, health plans, orchestras of high professional standards, reliable instruments and piano tuners, techology galore etc etc.

Modern pianists and conductors probably do not need to travel so much, as they seem to be wedded to one city, but opera singers still flit from house to house, giving maybe two or three performances before moving on. Their lives are truly bizarre. Last night I saw Siegfried. The star was a last minute substitute, the previous tenor having been withdrawn from circulation. His soprano was a slimmed down version of the fat lady famously sacked by Covent Garden. She has lost three fifths of her body bulk, following some drastic rearrangement of her inner parts.