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In the late 1990s Joyce Hatto, a septuagenarian pianist with remarkable virtuosity and range, blazed onto the classical music scene. Critics and the public adored her, but as Mark Singer documents in a recent New Yorker, Hatto had staged an elaborate con. Singer says her skill was in knowing just what the audience wanted to hear.
You're over three months late on the Joyce Hatto story, though it is interesting. And while it's nice to see that On the Media can be something other than On the Bush Administration, I can't believe that instead, you didn't cover the flap over the Times giving MoveOn a discount rate for their ads!
Joyce Hatto
Try looking up Buck Hammer (aka Steve Allen.)
Cannonball was right, like to hear a story on what he said about jazz criticism. Like to hear a story on critics in general.
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