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So, hello everyone. This interview is being conducted through the Queens Memory Project, a program by Queens College and Queens Public Library designed to collect stories, images and other evidence of life in the borough of Queens. My name is Myra Campolo and I am here to interview Carol Montparker, a former student at Queens College who majored in music and became a professional concert pianist, teacher, author and music journalist. She has graciously donated her collection of interviews that she recorded with world-renowned concert pianists through Clavier magazine, where she was a senior editor for 15 years. Welcome, Carol.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3.0,55.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Thank you very much. This is very exciting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=55.0,59.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes. Can you tell us about growing up in Queens during the time you lived there? I believe your family home was in Forest Hills, is that right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=59.0,68.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: That's right. I was born in Brooklyn, and when I was pretty young, about 10 or 11, we moved to Queens and we would've moved anyway to Queens. We moved to a different part of Queens, but my mother read an article in the Long Island Press. I was already a quote [makes air quotes] serious little pianist, very serious about my studies. And she read a feature article on the late great pianist, Leopold Mittman, who had emigrated and escaped the Nazi regime in Europe and lived in Forest Hills. And she took, she made an appointment for me to go and play and see and meet him, and he accepted me. And I have to just say at this point, it was probably the single most important and wonderful thing my mother ever did for me because Mr. Mittman -- Lolek, his Polish given name, everybody called him that -- he was one of the most important people in my whole long life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=68.0,160.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And he went about the business of cultivating me. He took, he not only was a wonderful teacher of the piano, but he taught me about art, his own garret studio in his Tudor house on Ingram Street in Forest Hills. We walked up to the third floor and it had eaves, and it looked just like a painting by Édouard Vuillard. And he had in there his Blüthner piano, which was the prize for one of the most important competitions in Europe, which he won. And somehow he managed to escape with his piano. And he told me fascinating stories about himself with his best friend Gregor Piatigorsky, the great cellist, and how they were crossing a stream, escaping being detected by Nazi army people, and Piatigorsky, carrying his cello over his head. And to the end of Piatigorsky's life, he entered the stage carrying his cello over his head, as a remembrance of that very tense time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=160.0,253.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Somehow Lolek managed to have his piano sent here. And I was so lucky to have my lessons on that beautiful instrument. I have a beautiful Steinway piano, and I'm a Steinway artist. As of about 15, 20 years ago, I was invited to that distinguished roster, but the Steinways are very different from the Blüthner piano. They have different characters just as people do. And that's one of my great memories is going up to the third floor and hearing him play, because he taught very largely by demonstration. And I think from that young age, I absorbed it by osmosis. He knew how to articulate concepts and everything, but his tone and everything about his playing...I'll just interject that I recently met, who has become a friend of mine, a Polish pianist named Roman Markowicz, and he is embarking on a mission to make, to find all the surviving Polish pianists who escaped and rescue their careers. Because Leopold Mittman had an enormous career in Europe when he came here, a solo career in Europe. But when he came here, he, like many of them, got to be collaborative pianists and their names appear on recordings, like Mischa Elman and Nathan Milstein and Jascha Heifetz. They anglicized their names, but they were Poles. And that just happens to be going on right now, which I was excited about because I think Mr. Mittman was a disappointed man in many ways because at the very pinnacle of his career, he had to flee. But he was a wonderful teacher, and I studied with him into my 20s.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=253.0,411.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Oh really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=411.0,411.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: He really had a profound effect on me. So that was one major factor. I could walk to his house from where my parents moved, and I had a very happy time at Forest Hills High School. I entered as a freshman and graduated from there. It was a very long walk from my house, but I often walked with friends, and sometimes friends came back with me and we would sing around the piano.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=411.0,445.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I was an officer of the student government at Forest Hills; I had a lot of other interests -- problems of democracy, debates and stuff -- but I had a lot of opportunities in music at the high school. And the orchestra leader gave me an opportunity to play the Mendelssohn G Major Concerto with the school orchestra, which was a lovely, wonderful experience. And then I got a scholarship to Barnard, and many of my best friends did too and went there. But my scholarship only included the tuition and not board, and my father didn't want me taking the subway up into the wilds, as he called it, upper Manhattan. So I chose Queens College but as it turned out, I really think that Queens College had a better music department than Barnard did, and that was my major interest. And I had wonderful professors, and I lived basically at home, which I would not have preferred. All my friends were away at school, but I got married early, probably too early, before I had graduated.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=445.0,556.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Around what time were you, what was the timeframe that you were in Queens College?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=556.0,565.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Let's see, 1956. And I would've graduated in 1960, but I had my son [laughs] towards the end, so I didn't finish my last year and I wasn't happy about it, but I was very happy to be mother of my son, Dennis, who has turned out to be a professional, fantastic cellist. And he teaches at a large university, cello and chamber music, and my daughter is a wonderful flutist, and they both won all sorts of competitions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=565.0,609.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Did music run in your family before you, or...?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=609.0,614.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I think my mother's sister was rather musical. My mother played very little piano and she knew enough to teach me how to read music at three or four, because I was picking out tunes when I was a toddler. She said I toddled over to my grandfather's piano and picked out tunes. So she taught me how to read music. And when I was about five, she took me to a neighborhood piano teacher. And in turn, that teacher in a year or two brought me to her teacher on 57th Street in Manhattan. Scary fellow. He had a glass eye and a very big dog, and I had to take the subway there and, but I'm sure I learned a lot from him [laughs]. I want to say a bit more about my time at Queens College.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=614.0,676.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes, of course.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=676.0,678.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I want to, if this is visible, when I was there, I won the competition called the Orchestral Society Award, and, which is the most accomplished soloist on campus. And here is the poster. [Holds up sheet of paper in plastic sleeve.] Can you see it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=678.0,703.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Oh, yes, we can see it!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=703.0,703.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: That's 19-year-old me [laughs], and I played the Brahms Piano Concerto in D minor two nights in a row, and Dr. Boris Schwarz was the conductor. He was one of the professors, and -- what did I want to tell you about that? Well, it was just a fantastic experience. My teacher, Mr. Mittman, did not want me to compete with that concerto because it's an enormous work. And he said a little one like you -- well, I was 19 -- but he said that it's an enormous work and you should be much older to play it. But I was determined and I was just ODing on that concerto. I loved it so much, and luckily I won the opportunity to play with the orchestra. I have a reel-to-reel -- that shows you how old I am, a reel-to-reel tape, which somebody tried to transfer to a CD of that performance, and it's full of scratches. And, you know, it was half a student orchestra, so the orchestra wasn't on top of the whole thing, but it was just one of the highlights of my musical life, even though I was so very young.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=703.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And during those years, I was also the choral accompanist to the Choral Society under Dr. John Castellini, who was quite a strict character, but he was lovable. And I learned so many of the great choral works, from the Messiah to the St. Matthew Passion and the Mozart Requiem and the Fauré Requiem and the Schubert Mass and Beethoven Missa Solemnis. I know them because when the orchestra replaced me, I sat in the alto section and I sang with the chorus. So it was a very enriching experience for me. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=810.0,861.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: So how was the course load of the music program? You were mentioning it before, I was just wondering if you'd like to go into what you enjoyed the most or --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=861.0,874.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Yes, well, just as I was really sorry to miss a good part of my last year, actually, my mentor, Sol Berkowitz gave me credit for some of the courses in my ninth month, and he said, just send them to me and I'll mark them. And he was just wonderful. But at Queens College, the most enriching courses, in my opinion, were the ones I was able to take: contemporary civilization, philosophy, history, French literature. I took calculus at Queens and took physics, really wonderful courses in the first couple of years with music seeping in, you know, basic harmony and stuff. And then increasingly, the music courses got more technical. And in the last year, there were courses that I truly was not that interested in, like conducting and advanced theory. So the ones that I missed, I don't rue that fact. It's all right with me. It wasn't all right with my mother. She never stopped lamenting the fact that I didn't get my degree from Queens, and I'm sorry about it too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=874.0,971.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Maybe somebody will someday give me an honorary degree when they maybe look at my seven books on music. And I kept very busy and creative all through my life [laughs], but that was too bad. But I loved being a mother, and as I said, my children are wonderful human beings, and my favorite thing to do is to play chamber music with them. Their father was, I should say, a violinist. That marriage wasn't a happy one, but I had a very happy second marriage for 30 some-odd years. I was very, very lucky. And so that's as much as anyone needs to know [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=971.0,1027.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Was the performing with the Choral Society your first performance?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1027.0,1034.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: With the Choral Society or the Orchestral Society?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1034.0,1037.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Oh, I'm sorry with the Orchestral Society.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1037.0,1039.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Yeah, I gave recitals before that, solo recitals. Even at Queens College. I have some frayed programs of my own performances there. I always felt that the teachers that I had nurtured my desire and need to perform, and it was really the perfect place for me. So that worked out very well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1039.0,1081.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Also, I read that you performed at Carnegie Hall as well. Can you tell me about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1081.0,1088.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Yes. In, let's see, when it was, 1976, I was in my 30s. Most people give their New York debuts when they're younger, but I was busy raising babies until they were children. I taught all those years, and it worked out great because my children, I was home for them. They played in the same room, sometimes under the piano, quietly. They always had tremendous respect for music and for my work at the piano. So friends of mine and also my teacher at that time, Leopold Mittman, were encouraging me to rent Carnegie Recital Hall, which is the smaller of the two halls there, now there's even a third one, and it's very expensive to hire. But there was a wonderful person in my life whom I met on a street corner in Manhattan. We shared a taxi cab, an older European woman, another refugee, and we started to talk. It turned out that she was a very wealthy woman and a philanthropist who gave to every musical and art organization-- the Metropolitan Museum, the Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall -- actually millions of dollars.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1088.0,1195.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I had no way of knowing that until I first went to her house. And there were floor to ceiling Monet paintings and everybody anybody's ever heard of, right in her own place. Anyway, she offered to sponsor me at Carnegie, which was the beginning of many generous gestures that she gave me. She didn't have children of her own, and it was a serendipitous meeting, and she was one of my most beloved people, not because of the generosity, but she was so gentle, kind, smart. She spoke seven languages, very literate and loving, very loving. So yes, I started preparing for that concert and I started keeping a diary of my joys and the stresses and visions of being on stage and [unclear] what that entailed. And I had a pile of music [and] of yellow legal paper on my piano, and every time an insight would occur to me at the piano in my work in the music, I would, it would almost subvert my work [laughs] in performance because I had to record it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1195.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And it got to be quite a stack [claps] of pages. And, by a series of circumstances, it fell into the hands of an editor of a now defunct, but very distinguished music publication called The Piano Quarterly. And he visited me one day and he said, \"What's that on your piano?\" And I said, \"It's a journal I'm keeping, it's just jottings, and I plan to, you know, to keep going until the whole thing is done.\" So he said, \"I want that, sight unseen, for our Piano Quarterly.\" I said, \"I'm not writing it for publication, I'm writing it for my own catharsis. I'm not sure I want to share it. It's very, very personal, you know, self doubts and all kinds of stuff.\" So he said, \"Well, you think it over.\" And I said, \"Well, I'm going to be still writing when I get my New York Times review and when I'm backstage even, I might be jotting things down.\" He said, \"Remember what I'm offering you.\" So long story short, it became the entirety of that journal, the Piano Quarterly, maybe somewhat edited. And from there it became my first little book. And it is a small book. I think you've seen it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1290.0,1390.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Is it \"The Anatomy of a New York Debut Recital\"?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1390.0,1394.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Yes, I have it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1394.0,1395.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: I also have it here [holds book up] because we...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1395.0,1399.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: You took the cover off, but I like it [holds up her copy].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1399.0,1401.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes, there you go. Because at the music library, we have to take the covers off of the books so they don't get damaged but, yes, we carry your book in our music library as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1401.0,1414.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: That's good because there are seven of them. And this was my flyer that was outside of Carnegie Hall [holds up illustrated flyer].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1414.0,1424.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1424.0,1424.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: You know, to see it, life-size, was astounding. You know, I ran across 57th Street in my jeans, with a black velvet outfit flapping on the hanger and an attaché case full of music. And that's what appeared at the entrance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1424.0,1448.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: So exciting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1448.0,1449.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And then I should jump ahead just for one moment and say that when I was 70 I, my friend Andrea, the lovely woman I mentioned, said, you should play on your birthday at Carnegie again. And on my very birthday -- I'm 70 here -- I gave another recital there [in 2009]. This was the flyer [holds it up].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1449.0,1479.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1479.0,1479.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And the whole audience rose to sing Happy Birthday after my last piece, which was the Schumann Fantasie. And both experiences were fantastic. The first experience, I want to tell you that I got, honest to God [raises her hand], hundreds of letters of readers who read that book, closet pianists, who said, \"I'm going to take heart because you overcame your nerves and you got a very good review.\" And Donal Henahan, who was then the main critic of the New York Times, really was so generous and I felt so lucky. The whole thing was so wonderful, and that's what ends the last part of the book. But it's only one man's opinion, as I've come to realize about criticism, and the young pianists who are now trying to come out in New York, there's nobody reviewing their concerts. There's not enough reviews. Occasionally you see a review in the big papers and it's discouraging, you know, I – there's so many gifted people and they don't even have enough halls. They're playing in libraries and nursing homes, and they don't know where to play, what to do with their gifts. And –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1479.0,1592.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Do you have any advice for them at all, or –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1592.0,1597.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I actually gave advice just the other day to somebody who said they wanted to major in music. I told them to double-major. Yo-Yo Ma double-majored, if you can believe it. I mean, in music, cello, at Columbia or Harvard maybe, I may be getting that wrong, and math. [Note: Ma earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Harvard in 1976.] And I know people who had to go into their other chosen field and they continued to play. One can play when you want to, when the spirit moves you. And so that I do advise people to think about that. I've heard so many terrific young people. I teach one Chinese girl and her husband's a violinist. She's very, very good. They're as poor as church mice. I teach her for nothing. And she lives in the basement of her in-laws'. And her husband works all night long in an Asian market in Flushing. And, you know, I do my best with her. And she's taken advantage of. She played in several places, mostly assisted living places, and they don't pay. I actually called up several. I said, I have a student, and you're not paying her. Do you know how much work goes into a recital? It's amazing, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1597.0,1717.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Well, your other profession as a writer helped you along with your music career. How did you get into writing and your time at Clavier Magazine?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1717.0,1732.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Well, when I wrote that book and the publisher of Clavier was the publisher of my first little book. I like to say little because the other books I wrote are much chunkier [laughs]. So he knew who I was. And when my marriage ended, I called him up. Name is James Rohner, he's owner and publisher of The Instrumentalist Company, which has several publications and do occasional books as well. And I said, \"Hi Jim, this is Carol. I have to talk to you about something.\" \"Go on.\" He's a very crusty Midwesterner. And I said, \"My marriage is ending right now and I'm going to need a job, and I wonder if you have anything for me.\" Of course, that was in Evanston, Illinois. He said, \"Let me think about it.\" He has a real crusty voice. And within days he called me and said, \"I have an idea.\" He said, \"You come to us in production week. I'll give you manuscripts of articles and stuff to edit, and you'll work here and learn the ropes in magazine and I'll put you up in the little residential hotel that's in Evanston and you stay the week.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1732.0,1846.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And for 15 years I commuted between LaGuardia Airport and Chicago in snow and everything else. And it was a learning experience. But the best part about it is I did feature stories. Eventually I became the senior editor. I started as an associate editor and then a couple of steps along the way. And, so anytime I wanted to meet a great artist, I had a press card. It just was, it felt wonderful, you know. I got into concerts everywhere, said, I'm the senior editor of Clavier, may I have a pair -- a pair! -- of tickets for the Ashkenazy concert at Carnegie or something like that, and they were always waiting for me. It was like a dream come true in many ways.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1846.0,1910.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Along the way, I met my second husband, and a funny thing happened when we were in Evanston. He came with me on this particular trip, and in the middle of the night, the phone rang and Ernest, his name was, answered the phone. And he said, some guy says he's Glenn Gould [laughs]. I said, what!? And I grabbed the phone and I had an hour-long conversation with Glenn Gould, who wanted to tell me about his recording of the Goldberg Variations, which of course became his signature recording, world famous, great, great recording. But he, I have to tell the truth, he talked at me. He was different. He had a different personality. He was a genius, but there were theories about why he was somewhat different, but he didn't come up for air for an hour in the middle of the night. He was known to be a night owl, and he wanted an educated ear so – [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1910.0,1990.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: He was a very...but I met, in the vein of interviewing, really every great artist that I wanted to meet, you know. There were several who resisted interviews, and one in particular who became really my favorite pianist, Radu Lupu, the Romanian pianist. l so much, I loved the way he played. I so much wanted to talk to him. I went to Carnegie Hall and I stood on line in the green room. And I, when it came to my turn, I had written him a note that said, \"Dear Mr. Lupu, I fully respect and understand your decision not to grant interviews, but if I promise you to stay to music and not ask you any personal questions, I'm a serious pianist myself, and I will let you see the whole draft for your approval before it ever would go into print.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=1990.0,2071.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: That's what my letter said. And I said, \"I wrote you this letter.\" I didn't go into that on line. I said, \"If you'd be good enough to read it,\" and he stuffed it in his very sweaty tux and I pictured it going to the cleaners [laughs] in the jacket pocket [laughs]. And, but the next morning, the phone rang rather early and I answered it, and this is what I heard: \"OK.\" In a deep, gruff, Romanian-accented voice. I said, \"Is this Mr. Lupu?\" And he said, \"Who should it be?\" He was very droll and very, very funny. And then we arranged when, and that's one of many wonderful stories that I have told in my books. With Victor Borge, who wasn't so funny as he is on stage, he was in a bad mood. He was an old man. And he yelled at me and I said –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2071.0,2145.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Could you say who that was again, I'm sorry. I didn't hear.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2145.0,2147.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Victor Borge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2147.0,2149.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: OK.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2149.0,2149.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: The Danish comedian. And when he was yelling about something, because I posed a two-part question: \"Do you ever play for yourself? And if so, what would that be?\" Just then his secretary, a young man, walked into the room and interrupted, and he got very flustered and very angry, and he yelled at his secretary, and then he said, \"And you!\" -- pointing to me -- \"Learn how to do an interview, young lady.\" And he said, \"Ask a question and back off.\" And I started to shake, but I kept my cool and I said the following: \"Mr. Borge, I think maybe I should pack up and go home and practice or something, because you were on Broadway last night and you must be so tired, and I'll understand completely and I'll just go home.\" He said, \"Practice, are you a pianist?\" I said, \"Yes.\" He said, \"Play something for me.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2149.0,2218.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Well, I have never said no in my life so I played some Bach, which was in my fingers, in my hand. He said, \"Well, why didn't you say so? You're an artist.\" And we ended by playing duets on his Bösendorfer. And, but when I got to the gates outside of his mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, when I got there, I sat in the car and I erased his shouting at me. I never wanted to hear it again. Now I regret it because it would be interesting and fun to hear it, but I was younger then [laughs] and upset, so...but many stories like that. And –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2218.0,2270.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Did you have any technical difficulties when you were recording artists? And how did you get through those difficult times when you were –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2270.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Anything that could happen to a tape recorder. I was taping somebody out in the Hamptons and they plugged me into a dead socket, and I thought it was going for at least 15 minutes. And I looked and it wasn't going around, and I said, \"I beg your pardon,\" I said to the artist, \"it doesn't seem to be having power.\" And he pulled it out and found another, and I had to ask him the same question because I wanted to know exactly what he said, you know, and not paraphrase. And that, and batteries running out...anything that could have happened did happen. And I would check meticulously, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2280.0,2339.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I arrived at a very fancy hotel in New York to interview Mieczyslaw Horszowski. It's a mouthful. And I always went, you know, was there early. And I called his room, I asked the desk to call his room, and I hear, \"Hello?\" -- these deep Russian voices. And I said, \"Is this Mr. Horszowski?\" \"Yes.\" So I said, \"This is Carol Montparker.\" And he said, \"Who?\" So I said, \"I'm from Clavier, we're doing an interview in 10 minutes and I wondered when I shall come up, should come up.\" He said, \"Oh, no, no, impossible. Impossible. I'm catching a plane in a very short time, just imposs–\" I had driven all the way from my home in Huntington to Manhattan. And I told him that and I said, \"Your management arranged it with me. And it was such a long drive, Mr. Horszowski,\" and I went on like that. He said, \"Can you come up now?\" Of course I could, that's what I was supposed to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2339.0,2426.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And I went up there and funny, funny things proceeded to happen. I mean, he had a whole brunch. A woman was moaning in a bed. He was very elderly, and a woman was in the back in the room where I was supposed to be doing the interview. And there was a whole, he sat me at a table that had the dregs after a brunch, and I was starving because they told me, you'll have lunch with him. No, it wasn't going to happen. And during the course of the interview [laughs], a bus boy came and started folding up the table and the cloth, and I must have had a spontaneous gesture of taking a piece of a roll or something. I was so hungry! He said, \"Darling, you didn't eat?\" [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2426.0,2486.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And he took whatever was left over, made a little plate for me, and he got so nice and I had such a good time. But mainly, the point I don't want to forget to make is that the wisdom and the wit that came at me from these great artists -- because they're not only great digitally on the piano, their thinking is great. And many of them are very, very funny. Alfred Brendel has a wonderful -- had – he died just last week or something [note: Brendel died on June 17, 2025]. I have letters and books from him, and he was so resistant to an interview, and we had a correspondence after that. So though all that good stuff got recycled into my own playing -- I was coached by some of them in concerts of my own that were coming up -- and I gave it over to my students. I think they were so lucky to have me come off of an interview with one of these wonderful thinkers, and it gave me insights I never would've had, you know. So that was a wonderful part of it. And I realized after a while that I was giving my whole self over to other artists and really ignoring my own work. So there was a point at which, I didn't ever resent it, but I thought, get back to your own work. And so eventually there were like 80 interviews or something like that, and I have albums of photographs and letters, and my kids will probably throw it out [sighs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2486.0,2614.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Oh no, I hope not! 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We do. We would have the archive, the Queens College Special Collections and Archives, would review it. We'd be happy to look at them, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2622.0,2637.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Well, OK. That's an idea. They're treasures to me. And I have, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to pick this up for one minute. 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Do you see the bookshelves?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2650.0,2655.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2655.0,2657.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: So many are books by famous artists signed to me. I feel so lucky. And now I'm walking you over to my stacks of music. 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Can you see it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2688.0,2694.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes. Yes, we see it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2694.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I'll go back where I belong, OK? 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Is this where I was?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2708.0,2715.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2715.0,2715.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: OK.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2715.0,2716.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Perfect. 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So when were you selected as a Steinway artist, and how did that come about and your work from that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=2724.0,2736.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I was invited. I had given a series of lecture recitals at Steinway Hall. Each -- I called it The Composer's Landscape -- each one was devoted to a single composer, and the program consisted of a performance by me of a great work by that composer, a lecture of medium length about the composer, and a couple of students playing music of that. And I would coach them. 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But can you see this? I got permission to have manuscripts from the eight composers that I discussed in this book from the J.P. 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I don't know if you can see behind me, but I have your poster –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3002.0,3006.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: My poster, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3006.0,3008.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Set up behind me of the [unclear] you did. Yes. The piano – [unclear]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3008.0,3014.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Well, that was done for a cover of Clavier, and readers requested a copy for their, a poster made out of it for their studios. 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But this [holds up framed artwork] was a collage, and it's bits and pieces of things from my life. This is the opening of the great Schumann Piano Concerto, which I felt very close to. And I played with an orchestra about 15 years ago. This is something that Mr. Mittman wrote to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3029.0,3072.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Oh, could you hold it up just a little bit? 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That there was a program, it was a rebus [unclear] match, like it was playing cards -- match this card and just turn them over and remember where they were. But it was solving a puzzle, it was pretty complicated. And I was the champion for a week. How did I get on? I was watching it and getting the answers, and my mother was with me, and she said, \"You're getting the answers sooner than the contestants. Why don't you call and see if you can get on?\" So I did. I called NBC, and I had, before I knew it, an appointment to go down to the studios and have a test, and before I knew it I was on TV having this –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3119.0,3182.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: How old were you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3182.0,3184.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I was like 21.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3184.0,3190.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Wow!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3190.0,3191.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And I won five days. 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I won a mink cape, which of course, I never would've worn it, so I sold it. I had to sell a lot of things because it got all added on to our income and jacked up our taxes. But I won a trip to Europe, and we took it. My mother watched my son, and so my then-husband quit his job and went to work for Air France, and we took some more trips.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3202.0,3251.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I was on Tahiti when President Kennedy was assassinated. I mean, strange things, but it was always sort of, well, it would've been perfect if it had been a perfect partner. But anyway, eventually I did travel with Ernest and we went many, many -- on many trips, and that's when the bug hit me. And Venice was one of the most wonderful places. And I painted and wrote, and the book is partly a fantasy of what happened to me in a palazzo, sort of spooky. And it's also a comparison of the three methods of communication: writing, painting and performing. I went on that trip resolving not to touch a piano because I was on overload. 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It's a fantasy of course, but it's in its third printing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3365.0,3379.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Oh, it is?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3379.0,3379.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Yeah, it's, I guess it's on Amazon.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3379.0,3386.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: I did see that on Amazon. 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The beauty of the concept of home. I love where I live, and I hope I can stay here somewhat longer. Expensive to have a house, but I love nature and birds and stuff. In fact, I've given many concerts on the theme of nature and music, the way that music is derivative very often from the sounds of nature, water, wind, birdsong. 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And I've told this, so I don't feel like I'm violating the confidence, but during the course of the interview, I must have triggered something with a question that she was...she had a daughter, and I asked her about the balance of mothering and touring, and she said, \"Look at this!\" [crumples a piece of tissue], she said, with bile in her voice. \"Picture it's a lemon and squeeze it [makes a squeezing motion with tissue] until there's nothing left to come out of it. 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But as far as I was concerned, I knew I didn't want to be away from my children a long time. So I just scheduled concerts along the East Coast and not terribly far, where I was two days away, you know, a day or two it took me, and I was back already. And thankfully my parents stepped in. And I gave concerts in the Chicago area and along the West Coast and Washington and Oregon.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3642.0,3700.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: But had I had a manager, I would be at their beck and call. \"You're playing in Gopher Prairie, Idaho, tonight\" -- you know, [claps] you pack a bag. I couldn't do that. It was not in my nature to want to do that. But men whose families possibly depend on it, I mean, I was married and there was another income. They have to think about it and they have to...I was very good friends with the late André Watts. He was a wonderful, nice man. He had stories about finding himself in the sticks, and the pedals drop off the piano and finding some technician who knew how to put it together and him getting under the piano in front of the audience. That triggers the subject of indignities, which I think I have a chapter in A Pianist's Landscape, how the lid once fell down. What a cacophony of all the strings vibrating. How once the stagehand didn't put the brakes on the wheels and the piano started to move and I was grabbing the black notes. I was scooching myself along and holding on [laughs]. 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One time I arrived and some technician said, \"I fixed the piano.\" I said, \"Well, what did you do?\" He said, \"I shellacked it.\" And varnish had dripped in the hammers. Do you know what that does to the sound? They're supposed to be fuzzy felt. And that's what produces tone [in a] piano. The things that happen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3815.0,3858.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Do you have any other things to say about the interviews that you conducted with any other artists that stand out to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3858.0,3867.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Oh gosh, yes. Let's see, what would...Alfred Brendel was one of the great pianists of the world, and he had said no interviews. He was another one I had to work to convince his management to allow him because they are, you know, directed by their management. But I think he didn't want to either. But anyway, I finally got the interview, and I was sort of nervous because he seemed to be such a personage, and a huge name and huge following. And towards the beginning of the interview, there was a mic there and it had a red ball to absorb sound, a rubber ball. It fell on the floor, and he [laughs] put it on his nose –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3867.0,3932.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: He did?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3932.0,3933.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: He did! Like a clown, and it totally made me realize that he was a human being, and a fun one at that. So [laughs], and it was a very rich interview. And I had correspondence with him and I also reviewed his book of poetry, 'cause he wrote poetry. It is very strange poetry. I don't know if you know about the art movement, Dada. The Dada movement was sort of crazy in Europe, the 1920s, I think. I may be wrong about that. But nutty stuff. And he's fooling around all the time in the poems, and it's very, very funny. \"The Coughers of Cologne\" is the name of one, all about the audience coughing [laughs], that kind of thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=3933.0,4000.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I have a story that I wrote in my book, and I can tell you everything except the name of the artist, which I didn't do in the story, but several people guessed. I admired this artist very, very much. And during an interview he said, \"Are you coming to hear me in two weeks\" at such and such hall? And I said, \"Yes, I have tickets. I have tickets with my husband.\" And he said, \"Yes, yes, to the concert, not to the kissing.\" I said, \"Excuse me?\" And he didn't repeat it. And he said, \"Just meet me in the green room before the concert.\" And he was playing a work I felt very close to. I absolutely looked forward to this concert and the fact that he wanted me to meet him, he said, \"I'd like to talk to you before the concert.\" I felt honored, to tell you the truth. My husband was sitting in the audience, my then-husband -- God, should I tell this? And so I knocked on the door: \"Come in, come in.\" And he had a hat and cloak on and he took it off, and I started to talk about the concerto he was playing with the orchestra.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4000.0,4107.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And before I knew it, he was pressing himself against me and pressing his mouth on my mouth and grabbed my body, and I had to push him away. And I said, \"Mr. So-and-So, I don't know what made you think that you could do anything like that. I'm going to go back to my seat, and have a wonderful concert.\" And I was trembling, of course, and shaking. It certainly was not what I expected. I expected a wonderful conversation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4107.0,4148.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4148.0,4148.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Huh?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4148.0,4150.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: I said, right. You were expecting a wonderful conversation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4150.0,4153.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Absolutely. It was very funny. So I wrote the story up in the book, and the last part is explaining how sometimes artists have to do what they have to do to spark themselves up. And who knows whether that was part of it, that he was exciting himself before getting onto the stage. I didn't understand it, but people who read that book said, was that blah, blah? And they kept guessing everybody but the one it was, who's very famous! So I got the feeling that this goes on, and it's not very nice, but apparently it goes on. So.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4153.0,4210.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Sorry that happened to you. It should never happen to you or anyone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4210.0,4214.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: A young woman. It was...but I wrote, I changed the story into humor. It was absurd, the absurdity of it. And I went back to sit by my husband and the artist came out on stage, and I told my husband what had happened, and he said, \"We're going to go back and get a picture with him.\" Because he was so famous. I said, \"I don't really want to see him.\" He said, we went backstage. And he said to this artist, \"Anybody who kisses my --\" kisses! -- \"my wife has to agree to take a picture.\" That's the picture I showed -- oh, it was on my bulletin board. I showed it to you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4214.0,4267.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: But it's, there were many, many pictures on there. So no way that there would be, anyone would be able to pick it out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4267.0,4278.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: No. No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4278.0,4279.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: So don't worry about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4279.0,4281.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4281.0,4283.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: But thank you for sharing that and feeling comfortable because it does happen a lot in the music business, I think, with young women that are at the beginning stages and feel that they have no power in the situation that they're in. So I mean, I've heard of it happening a lot in the music –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4283.0,4307.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Yeah, and between teachers and students. There are some lecherous teachers that I have heard of, yeah, but I think in every profession, not just music. It's too bad. Let me look at this. I hate to end with that story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4307.0,4326.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: No, no. Let's go on to –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4326.0,4328.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Yes! 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Are you thinking of performing at all in the future, or...?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4330.0,4342.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I haven't ruled it out, Myra, but what I've been doing is -- I used to have two Steinways in this living room.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4342.0,4352.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Oh!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4352.0,4352.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And it's not a huge room, but I got rid of it, first of all, for financial reasons. But mostly it opened up a big space. And so I've had a series of musicales here with about 15 to 20 people. And I play as well as I can. I don't say, \"Oh, this is my house. I don't have to...\" No, I don't play down in these situations. I take it very seriously, and I work hard for it. And I may do another one this summer, but I'm not going to prepare food anymore [laughter], because it's ridiculous. They come for nothing. My son told me, you can't charge, Mom. I said, I don't, you know, in your own home, but I think I'll maybe suggest bring a dessert or something like that. People shouldn't mind; the price of tickets now [are] all over the place. But I can't say I'm not going to play anymore. I practice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4352.0,4438.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And I mentioned Radu Lupu, that's one of my very favorite pianists. He got sick. He was about 10 years younger than I am, but still was elderly already. And he told me on the phone from Switzerland, he said, \"I'm not playing anymore.\" I said, \"At all?\" He said, \"At all.\" I said, \"Not even for yourself?\" He said, \"At all!\" He got mad at me. How can you do that? He said, \"I'm tired of it.\" And I couldn't understand how you could get tired. You get tired. It's very physical work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4438.0,4488.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: It must be exhausting sometimes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4488.0,4490.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Yes, especially in this weather, to work hard. Picture Beethoven with a towel around his neck in all those photos we see. And he [Lupu] stopped cold turkey and he died soon after. So he must have known he wasn't well and he didn't talk about it. So–","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4490.0,4519.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Are you also writing as well?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4519.0,4523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Let me think...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4523.0,4526.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Or just for your own enjoyment, like journaling?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4526.0,4529.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Well, I self-published those two books, and I love and have always loved the genre of letters. One doesn't get too many handwritten, beautiful letters anymore. Everything is email. But I had a friend, she's ill now, she lives across the country in Oregon. She was a pianist and she loved to do watercolors as I do. And she loved to write letters. She has the most beautiful calligraphic handwriting I ever saw. And I had a decent handwriting, but I have a little tremor now, and it doesn't affect my piano playing at all. [plays piano]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4529.0,4599.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: That sounds beautiful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4599.0,4602.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I have a lot of music here, Bach and Brahms -- I could not stop. I have to be working on something, and they serve different purposes. Chopin is so lyrical and lovely, and he wrote a wellspring of beautiful music, and I keep discovering things. I just learned a new nocturne, and it's a very nice feeling to be able to learn a difficult piece at my age. And Bach -- Pablo Casals, the great cellist, once said, you must start every day with Bach. It's like a benediction on the house. And it is like that. It just is so rational and deep and wonderful. But Brahms, to get back to the concerto I played at Queens College, Brahms wrote a whole group of pieces in his old age, his last opuses, and he called it \"the sorrows of my old age.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4602.0,4683.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And there are about 20 or so pieces in four, the Opus 116 through 119. I find every emotion as an older person in those pieces expressed in his work: resignation, sadness, hope, sudden merriment, surprising merriment, despair, fear. It's all in his old, what he called the sorrows of my old age. And they resonate inside of me. They're so wonderful. And I've played Brahms lovingly all my life. And right now it's very meaningful. I have, I'm very lucky to have a wonderful relationship with someone I met six years ago. My husband Ernest died about eight years ago. I was alone for two years, and a mutual friend introduced us, and he had to move to Connecticut. But he comes here for a third of the month, and it's like a gift. You know, at my age who expected to have a companion that you could share so much? And so we occasionally go into museums and we just read quietly on this beautiful screen porch that's outside and it's quite lucky.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4683.0,4811.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Oh, that's wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4811.0,4813.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: It is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4813.0,4815.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4815.0,4815.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: So I'll end with that happy note.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4815.0,4820.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4820.0,4820.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Unless you have four more questions [laughs]. Sorry, you're great!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4820.0,4824.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: I think we're good because –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4824.0,4826.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I think so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4826.0,4826.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: We've been at it for an hour and a half and –","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4826.0,4828.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Wow!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4828.0,4829.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes. Time flies, right? [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4829.0,4832.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Is that? Yes. Is that too long for the series?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4832.0,4839.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: No, it's fine. I will, we can, we'll end now and then I'll just pause the session and then we could talk a little bit after if you'd like to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4839.0,4850.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: OK.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4850.0,4851.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: I'd just like to thank you for your time, and what a wonderful interview. And I enjoyed all your stories. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4851.0,4861.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Well, you were particularly wonderful to speak to, Myra; you seem to get it, all of it, and you prepared such key issues and questions. I was so happy to hear you, your ideas. So thank you very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4861.0,4881.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Oh, thank you. But thank you more. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4881.0,4884.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: But what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4884.0,4885.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: I said, but thank you, but thanks to you more.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4885.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: [laughs] Well, I'd like to see you again. So maybe I'll be at Queens College again for something we've mentioned, something or other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4890.0,4898.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes. Yes, we did. We'll talk a little bit about it after.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4898.0,4904.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: OK. OK.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4904.0,4905.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4905.0,4905.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: OK, thanks Myra.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4905.0,4907.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101/transcript/87974/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299101#t=4907.0,4911.64"}]}]},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - montparker_carol_20250826_edit.mp4"]},"duration":1092.68,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/299/102/small/montparker_carol_20250715_portrait_copy.jpg?1766415377","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-queenslibrary.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/299/102/original/montparker_carol_20250826_edit.mp4?1766414481","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":1092.68,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Full Transcript [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Hi everyone. We are here back for part two with Carol Montparker. She has graciously offered to play some pieces for us, so I'll give it away to Carol.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=1.0,15.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Hello, Myra. So this is like an append, an appendix or appendum or addendum to the other discussion we had the other day. So I chose -- there's so much beautiful piano literature, it's very hard to choose, and I wanted to choose some short works. So I zeroed in on, I think, the three composers that mean the most to me at this stage of my life. The first one is Johannes Brahms, who wrote all his -- you know, from his young years to his old years -- but his late, great works from Opus 116 to 119 on the piano, he called these works \"the lullabies of my old age.\" And in those pieces I have been able to find emotional impact with almost every experience in life from resignation and tenderness and brooding and acceptance and sadness.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=15.0,94.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: And the one I chose, which is an intermezzo from Opus 117, it's an andante. He was asked, how did you come to write such a beautiful andante? And he said, from walking in the woods. Well, andante is from the verb andare in Italian, to walk or to move forward. And this does ramble the keyboard in a kind of walking way. But I think the emotion it reminds me of the most is uncertainty. There's a feeling, which I think you don't have to be in your older age to feel these days, but I think we all walk around with a little of that. Anyway, it's a microcosm of Brahms's conception of the world, from sorrow and disillusionment to nobility and sincerity and always a fullness of sonority.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=94.0,160.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: [Carol performs an intermezzo from Opus 117 by Johannes Brahms]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=160.0,435.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: So that was one of my favorite Brahms pieces. And next, I'm going to play a very short work by Bach. There's nothing I could say about Bach, because Bach is so great, it's beyond words and feelings. And if a person doesn't like Bach, it's best not to admit it. [laughs] He gave the world so much; I mean, to start with, a great cantata every week in whatever church he was associated with, and great symphonic, choral works and masses and St. Matthew Passion, St. John's Passion. But the piano, the keyboard works, are amazing in their variety and the volume of work. I couldn't even copy what he wrote in my lifetime, no less conceive of them and almost nobody could. I've heard great composers and pianists admit to that. One of his great achievements was both books of the Well-Tempered Clavier and their preludes and fugues in every single key on the piano. And he -- that makes 24, and when he was finished with that, 20 years, 22 years later, he wrote another volume and never repeating himself, always everything varied and very, very difficult among the great works. But I'm only going to play one short prelude that I love very much. This is in D minor from book one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=435.0,553.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: [Carol performs a short prelude, 1 of the 24, in D minor from Book 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=553.0,661.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: That was one of the 24 preludes from book one. And I'll end with the poet of the piano, Frederic Chopin, who understood the human hand better than anybody, and who was a tunesmith, a melodist. Everything he wrote had a fresh, beautiful, new melody in it. And he was inspired by Italian opera like Bellini, who was a contemporary. And again, his output is unfathomable that one person could write so many things, but he never wrote a symphony. He was a miniaturist. He wrote waltzes and mazurkas and polonaises, Polish dances, mostly short works. So this is a very famous waltz that he wrote called The Waltz in C Sharp Minor. And it's just beautiful, but one can never play Chopin beautiful enough. So we can only try.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=661.0,732.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: [Carol performs The Waltz in C sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=732.0,970.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: I just want to say that, excuse me. One of the reasons I feel very close to Chopin was that my great teacher, my late, great teacher, Leopold Mittman, was a Polish immigrant and fled the Nazis and came to this country. He was the star student of a Polish maestro named Michalowski. Again with an \"M,\" Mittman, Michalowski. Michalowski was the star student of Karol Mikuli, and he was the star student of Frederic Chopin. And then Montparker went to study with Mittman. I feel like it came straight down some kind of a line through my teacher, who was a beautiful pianist and a beautiful Chopin player. And when I'm studying or playing Chopin, I'm quite well aware of that sort of lineage. I mean, as I said, there's so much literature to choose from, I could really sit here and play all day. But we did a long interview and I promised three short pieces. So I'm happy if this can be added to the other part of the interview. And I thank you again, Myra, for doing this. We had a few challenges with our microphones and stuff, but we did it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=970.0,1071.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes. Thank you so much. Yes, we got through all the technical difficulties, and it was wonderful to hear you play. Thank you so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=1071.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: Thank you very much. Thanks. I really do appreciate all the work you've put into it. So we'll be in touch.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=1080.0,1089.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myra Campolo: Yes, thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=1089.0,1090.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102/transcript/87976/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carol Montparker: OK.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/164354/file/299102#t=1090.0,1092.68"}]}]}]}