Talk:Hélène Grimaud

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Proms performance, video source?[edit]

Someone posted, "She performed at the Last Night of the BBC Proms in London in September 2008, playing the piano part of Beethoven's Choral Fantasia." -- I tried to find a source for the very good video of this which was online at YouTube for a long time, no or no reply from Grimaud's sites, DGrammophone, Albert Hall, etc. -- so would whoever posted this line (how to read the history changes now?), or anyone else who might know or be able to look, please post that source here -- I'd just like to view it, loved that video, also I'll put it into the article if permissible. -- Kessler (talk) 07:23, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

books by Grimaud[edit]

Hélène Grimaud has written at least three books. I think they should be mentioned, but 1) I've never added to an article on Wikipedia and 2) all this stuff about living persons is scary - I don't know if it's OK to add stuff about what they have published. And, I don't have hours and hours to comb through the myriad webpages of arcane Wikipedia protocol and rules on how to do it properly. So: General Request: Someone please add something about her books!!

Thanks and forgive my ignorance. Dveej 21:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Infobox[edit]

I am removing the infobox per this guideline.THD3 (talk) 19:35, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That was wrong to do. The infobox was not a "biographical infobox" but a "musical artist" infobox. Fanoftheworld (talk) 10:05, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

THD3 was correct. This is a 'musical artists infobox' which is for popular artists not classical ones. --Klein zach 08:44, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

New Yorker quote[edit]

I added a paragraph from the New Yorker. I thought it was important because it explained to me, as a non-musician, why musicians think she's important.

Some people might not like to see such a long block quote, but I don't understand the piano well enough to reliably rewrite it.

If somebody else wants to rewrite it, that's fine with me, on the condition that (1) they leave in the central ideas, and (2) keep it so that somebody like me, an ordinary WP reader and non-musician, can still understand what it is about her playing that musicians like.

BTW, a block quote isn't plagairism, because it's attributed, and it isn't a copyright violation, because as a short excerpt from a longer work that doesn't harm the New Yorker's sales, it's fair use. --Nbauman (talk) 13:17, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Hélène Grimaud/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Helene Grimaud Very short. The first sentence is barely comprehensible, and appears written by person with a weak grasp of English. What does "having a problem over focusing" mean? Does it mean she had trouble focusing, or that she was too focused? I can't even imagine what "she was a give her all or none type of child" means.

Last edited at 04:20, 11 October 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 18:37, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Photo[edit]

I would think a much more recent pic. of Grimaud than the 20-year-old shot in the infobox would be available – perhaps from Deutsche Grammophon, for which she records. – Sca (talk) 00:27, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]