Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova.
After graduating from Curtis in 1946, he made his professional solo debut with conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. By the age of 20, Gary Graffman had made a name for himself worldwide as a classical pianist. In 1949, he won the prestigious Leventritt Competition. He then furthered his piano studies with Rudolf Serkin at the Marlboro Music Festival and informally with Vladimir Horowitz.
Over the next three decades, he toured and recorded extensively, performing solo and with orchestras around the globe. In 1964, he recorded Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic. He also made a classic recording of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra in 1966. It was reissued on CD as part of Sony Classical's "Great Performances" series in 2006.
Probably Graffman's most famous recorded performance was for the soundtrack of the 1979 Woody Allen movie Manhattan in which he played George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, accompanied by the New York Philharmonic. Portions of the Philharmonic/Graffman version have been featured countless times in TV and movies over the last quarter century.
In 1977, he sprained the ring finger of his right hand. Because of this injury he began re-fingering some passages for that hand in such a way as to avoid using the affected finger. Unfortunately, this altered technique exacerbated the injury rather than ameliorating it, ultimately forcing him to stop using his right hand altogether by around 1979.
This setback encouraged him to pursue other interests such as writing, photography, and Oriental art. In 1980, he joined the faculty at the Curtis Institute where his career had begun. He took over as the school's director in 1986, and added the title of President in 1995, serving in both capacities through May, 2006. He continues as a faculty member at Curtis teaching piano.
In 1985 he gave the UK premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Piano Concerto in C-sharp for the Left Hand. Paul Wittgenstein commissioned the work in the 1920s and played it many times, but it later slipped from the repertoire.[3]
Seven left-hand works have been commissioned for Graffman. In 1993, for example, he performed the world premiere of Ned Rorem's Piano Concerto No. 4, written specifically for the left hand, and in 2001 he premiered Daron Hagen's concerto Seven Last Words. The American composer William Bolcom composed Gaea, a concerto for two pianos, left hand for Graffman and Leon Fleisher. It received its first performance in Baltimore in April 1996.
Through his longstanding service and devotion to music, Graffman has received honorary doctoral degrees, was honored by the cities of Philadelphia and New York, and received the Governor's Arts Award by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Graffman remains active as a teacher and coach of piano and chamber music. His notable students include the piano virtuosos Lydia Artymiw, Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, and Haochen Zhang.
肯定再也没有一位钢琴家写的自传,能比盖瑞•格拉夫曼(Gary Graffman)所著的《我为什么要练琴》(I Really Should Be Practicing)更令人喷饭解颐。从第一页开始,钢琴家所说的故事似乎就一个比一个赛着逗你乐。今天我们知道这个名字,多由于他是朗朗和王羽佳的老师,可在...
评分肯定再也没有一位钢琴家写的自传,能比盖瑞•格拉夫曼(Gary Graffman)所著的《我为什么要练琴》(I Really Should Be Practicing)更令人喷饭解颐。从第一页开始,钢琴家所说的故事似乎就一个比一个赛着逗你乐。今天我们知道这个名字,多由于他是朗朗和王羽佳的老师,可在...
评分肯定再也没有一位钢琴家写的自传,能比盖瑞•格拉夫曼(Gary Graffman)所著的《我为什么要练琴》(I Really Should Be Practicing)更令人喷饭解颐。从第一页开始,钢琴家所说的故事似乎就一个比一个赛着逗你乐。今天我们知道这个名字,多由于他是朗朗和王羽佳的老师,可在...
评分昨夜无法入眠,因为这本书的翻译是在是太让人忍不住想吐槽了!买了十几年的书,第一次遇到如此差劲的翻译,简直让人不忍直视!随便翻开一页,到处都是翻译得拗口无比的句型,像是初中生水准的翻译,毫无流畅感,需要转几个弯才能理顺其表达的内容,需要脑补各种连接词、代词,...
评分肯定再也没有一位钢琴家写的自传,能比盖瑞•格拉夫曼(Gary Graffman)所著的《我为什么要练琴》(I Really Should Be Practicing)更令人喷饭解颐。从第一页开始,钢琴家所说的故事似乎就一个比一个赛着逗你乐。今天我们知道这个名字,多由于他是朗朗和王羽佳的老师,可在...
这本书简直是精神食粮!我刚读完,就被那种扑面而来的真实感震撼到了。作者似乎有一种魔力,能把最微小、最容易被我们忽略的生活细节,描绘得如同史诗般宏大。尤其是对主人公内心挣扎的刻画,细腻得让人心疼,那种在理想与现实的夹缝中求生存的疲惫感,我仿佛都感同身受。我记得其中有一段描写角色在深夜里对着镜子进行自我对话的场景,文字的韵律感极强,充满了哲学思辨的味道,读完后我久久不能平静,甚至开始反思自己过去那些“应该做却没做”的事情,那种被触动的深刻感,远超出了我阅读一般小说的体验。这本书不仅仅是阅读,更像是一次深度的自我审视和情绪的洗涤。它没有给你一个明确的答案,而是提供了一面清晰的镜子,让你直面自己的犹豫和拖延,那种力量是潜移默化的,却又极其强大。我强烈推荐给所有在人生十字路口感到迷茫的朋友们,它会给你一种“原来不止我一个人这样”的慰藉,同时又催促你迈出下一步。
评分拿到这本书的时候,我原本只是抱着随便翻翻的心态,毕竟封面和书名都透露着一种日常的慵懒气息。然而,一旦陷进去,就完全拔不出来了。这本书的叙事结构非常精巧,它不是那种线性推进的故事,更像是一系列碎片化的记忆和闪回,但这些碎片却完美地拼凑出了一个完整而复杂的人格侧面。作者的语言风格极其大胆且富有实验性,时而使用极其口语化的表达,仿佛主人公就在你耳边低语;时而又突然切换到一种近乎诗歌散文的优美辞藻,这种强烈的反差,让阅读体验充满了惊喜。我特别欣赏作者处理“时间”的方式,过去、现在和未来的界限在书中变得模糊不清,这非常贴合我们大脑处理经验的真实状态。说实话,我花了比平时多一倍的时间来读,不是因为内容晦涩,而是因为我需要时不时地停下来,细细品味那些措辞的妙处,回味那种微妙的情绪波动。这本书更像是一杯需要慢饮的陈年威士忌,后劲十足,值得反复咀嚼。
评分说实话,这本书的开篇差点让我放弃。它的节奏非常缓慢,前几章几乎都在铺垫一种沉闷、压抑的氛围,感觉一切都停滞不前,充满了未完成的待办事项和无休止的自我责备。但如果能熬过最初的“入门期”,你会发现这正是作者的高明之处——他让你先体验到那种被生活重担压垮的麻木感。一旦你适应了这种“慢”,后面情节的转折和人物关系微妙的松动就会显得格外有力。这本书最吸引我的地方在于它对“行动”与“意图”之间鸿沟的深刻洞察。书中角色总是在做着宏伟的计划,却总是在最后一刻被某种内在的阻力击溃。我读到后面,甚至开始对自己的拖延症产生了某种理解和宽容,这是一种非常难得的阅读体验——它不是说教,而是共情。与其说这是一本小说,不如说它是一本关于“如何与自己的不完美共存”的非虚构随笔,只是用了一个故事的外壳来承载。
评分从文学技法的角度来看,这本书的视角转换非常流畅自然,这是我最欣赏的一点。作者似乎能随时切换到任何一个配角的内心深处,哪怕只是一个短暂出现的咖啡店服务员,也能立刻赋予其鲜活的生命和一段足以支撑起一部小说的内心独白。这种全景式的叙事手法,让整个故事的世界观变得无比丰满和立体。它成功地营造了一种“世界依然在运转,只是主角暂时停了下来”的错觉。我特别喜欢作者在环境描写中嵌入人物情绪的处理方式,比如用窗外持续不断的降雨来烘托主角内心的压抑,或者用清晨阳光突然洒满房间来暗示一线转机。这种环境与心境的共振,让文字的画面感极强,几乎不需要太多想象力,读者就能被完全拉入情境之中。读完后,我甚至觉得这个故事里的世界比我自己的现实世界更真实、更具逻辑性,因为它把人类内在的矛盾和驱动力剖析得太透彻了。
评分我必须赞叹一下这本书的对话描写。简直是教科书级别的!角色之间的交流充满了言外之意和潜台词,很多时候,他们真正想表达的,恰恰是那些没有被说出口的部分。每一次阅读到重要的对话场景,我都感觉自己像个侦探,努力去解读那些停顿、那些重复、那些突然的沉默背后的真实情感。书中的幽默感也处理得非常高妙,它不是那种直白的笑料,而是一种带着苦涩的自嘲,是生活在无奈中开出的一朵小花。比如有一次,主角试图用一个极其复杂的理论来解释自己为什么不能接电话,那种过度分析的姿态,简直太像我认识的某些知识分子朋友了。这本书让我重新审视了人际交往的复杂性,意识到我们每个人都在努力扮演一个“理性人”的角色,但内心深处,我们都比自己表现出来的要混乱得多。这本书让人读完后,会更愿意去倾听,而不是急于表达。
评分即使上刀山,下油锅,总得亲自体验才会深刻。
评分即使上刀山,下油锅,总得亲自体验才会深刻。
评分即使上刀山,下油锅,总得亲自体验才会深刻。
评分即使上刀山,下油锅,总得亲自体验才会深刻。
评分即使上刀山,下油锅,总得亲自体验才会深刻。
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