Performers And Alcohol

What did you know about Michelangeli, what have they told you about Pollini that is so "shocking"?

We await well-founded and precise news.

While waiting... cheers Arturo... cheers Maurizio

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...in general it's not that great to indulge in alcohol. Moreover, as far as I know, it negatively affects memory and reflexes... all things useful for pianists

Drinking too much wine is never good (drinking a little and during meals, however, is). In any case, there is a big difference between the habit of drinking and "giving oneself over to alcohol."

CromaDiBrera wrote:

drink little and during meals yes, instead

Of course, the classic half glass of wine helps the heart...but I was referring to excesses.

Annuccia wrote:

Of course, the classic half glass of wine helps the heart... but I was referring to excesses.

Aparte the questionable utility of this discussion, I would like to ask you a question: what are your sources?

"I knew about Michelangeli" from whom? And, above all, what "did you know"?

"A friend told you about Pollini"? What did she tell you? And who told her? Who is this friend?

Be careful, because certain statements are dangerous...

I'm going out on a limb here: so what? So what?

I never had the idea that a good musician must also be sober... but I would even say that a good musician doesn't necessarily have to be a good person either

It seems to me that it is not as I had been told. Good for them.

Annuccia wrote:

It seems to me that it is not as I had been told. Good for them.

You always have to be careful about what people tell us... I didn't say that "it is not as you were told." But I asked you who told you and, above all, what they told you. Gossip is just around the corner and calling Pollini an alcoholic didn't seem like a good idea to me anyway, you know how it is... maybe he writes on the forum under a false identity!

Oh come on, a glass of wine has never hurt anyone, and I am sure that if it were not so, if Pollini happened to pass by here and read that an unofficial rumor is circulating calling him an alcoholic, he would start laughing. What should interest us is that both Pollini and Michelangeli are great artists, stage performers, and great interpreters; this is what is most important and, alas, one of the two is unfortunately no longer with us. In any case, Annuccia asked for confirmation of something she heard from a friend, and she asked here on the forum. For great artists, if we want to call it that, this is also publicity (using something to make people talk about them), and so if the news is unfounded, I don't think it will cause them any harm. One thing is certain... If, as Carlos says, badmouthing great interpreters is a way to attract them to the forum, then let's make something up about the others too!

http://www.mondoscreen.info/le-persone-intelligenti-tendono-a-bere-piu-alcolici-rispetto-alla-media/

It seems that intelligent people tend to drink more alcohol than average. I say: "Do they drink more because they are more intelligent, or are they more intelligent because they drink???"

mmhmm Tiger:

http://societa.panorama.it/carta-bianca/Chi-e-intelligente-beve-piu-alcolici-Ma-anche-i-cretini-pero

Those who are intelligent drink more. But idiots too...

The most intelligent people have a cat
http://quelchenonsapevi.it/persone-pi-intelligenti-gatto-animale-domestico/

http://www.news-24h.it/2014/01/usa-secondo-uno-studio-chi-scoreggia-spesso-e-piu-intelligente/

USA: those who fart often are more intelligent

...we're doing great