Piano mastery, second series; talks with master pianists and teachers. . country,where his time is now fully occupied withteaching and many concert appearances. x VIIIYOLANDA MERO THE BEAUTIFUL IN MUSIC At home in her beautiful apartments in NewYork, after a season of concert playing, Mero, the brilliant Hungarian pian-ist, talked of her work and her musical ideas. I do not love technic for its own sake, andtherefore I now practice it but little. Ofcourse, I must play scales sometimes—notevery day, however. You see I have no dailyroutine, as some pianists have; that is becauseI am
Piano mastery, second series; talks with master pianists and teachers. . country,where his time is now fully occupied withteaching and many concert appearances. x VIIIYOLANDA MERO THE BEAUTIFUL IN MUSIC At home in her beautiful apartments in NewYork, after a season of concert playing, Mero, the brilliant Hungarian pian-ist, talked of her work and her musical ideas. I do not love technic for its own sake, andtherefore I now practice it but little. Ofcourse, I must play scales sometimes—notevery day, however. You see I have no dailyroutine, as some pianists have; that is becauseI am not methodical, in the first place, and,secondly, because that kind of practice seemsto me such a waste of time. When I am awayon a tour, there is often no time to practice atall; and if there should be a little while hereand there, the piano may be a poor one, so thatI feel better just to let it alone and not attemptto practice at all. Some pianists take a silent keyboard withthem wherever they go, but I have never doneso. When I am here in my home, between en- 83. ^/umseA-^ hHi fcvn-dwJ ?&}tuj& vL^-*-* fin Jpxii %]* n^^n^ Yolanda Mero 89 gagements, I practice; but even then I am notsystematic about it. When the fever is onthen I work with enthusiasm—a whole day ata time; but I must be in the mood to work orI accomplish nothing. If I am not in themood, I would rather keep away from thepiano or play only a bit to amuse myself. r CLOTH OVER THE KEYBOARD In the beginning, it is true, I had to prac-tice technic very carefully and exactly. Myfather taught me at the start; that was whenI was five and a half. One thing he made medo which I think helped me very much to gainaccuracy. He would spread a cloth over thekeyboard, and, with this barrier between mylittle fingers and the keys, I must play myscales, etudes and pieces. (This reminds oneof the little Mozart, playing before the one suggested it was only by means ofmagic he was able to accomplish such
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