俺是个大老粗，乐盲，从没去过一场古典音乐会。从众的压力，还是逼迫大宝和二宝分别学了小提琴和钢琴。俺逼得很痛苦，他们被逼的也很痛苦。大宝一离开家去了大学就很少碰琴了。二宝还在眼皮底下，只好继续。好在他的老师很好，在选择学习的曲目上，允许二宝参与。前两年学的都有 Jazz 的味道在里面，因为二宝的兴趣，他在学校的 Jazz Band 吹 trumpet 。今年倒是回到了传统些的，是 Rachmaninoff 的 Prelude Op 3 No 2 in C Sharp minor ， 俺挺惊讶的，二宝会同意这首曲子，因为他才14岁和这首曲子俺这个老粗都能听出的一点 emotion 。更惊讶的是，二宝弹的俺也能听出 emotion 来，充满了悲愤，“凭什么逼着我学钢琴！”。俺也听了大师弹的，好能假装和二宝交流。在油管找到这个版本，俺不光听，还认真学习 comments ，武装自己的音乐词汇，好在二宝面前不懂装懂。其中的一条评论让俺笑出眼泪来，是不是真的， 俺不知道，贴在这，请班里的音乐家们来回答。
Matt Davidson
7 months ago
Please don’t be angry if someone coughs. My name is Matt Davidson and I have been a professional cough artist for 50 years. I am employed by artist or their managers to cough during live performance so people like you do not get a perfect copy for free. If you want a perfect recording then you have to pay for it. I make an incredible living doing this round the world and I always comes in disguise. Disable, old , frail, male / female attire. You will have difficult spotting me. Enjoy this video and I made sure nobody get a cough free performance.
Matt Davidson
6 months ago
@Karl Yes I am serious. I am retired now. I have trained my young nephew and she is very good at it.
Spencer Denning
6 months ago
Cough artists are an underrated and underappreciated element of any claque worth it's salt. A thankless job, they dutifully provide a reminder that the music is in fact being performed live. Coughers, or Toussers as they were known in the old country, prompt the audience to remember they too are a part of a live musical performance, for indeed, what is a performance without an audience? If a tree falls... Without Les Toussers the audience might be liable to forget they are witnessing a one of a kind performance of which they play an important role as spectator.
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Spencer Denning
6 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o87rD29rl-4 I wanted to thank you for your prodigious performance toward the end of this piece. It just isn't the same without your talents. I have a version without coughs on cd recorded in a studio, but I never listen to it. I find myself returning again and again to this definitive live performance. It's somehow impossibly more magical despite the ostensible "interruptions." I claim it's better because of the very fact that an "imperfection" intrudes on the music. It serves as a reminder of the perfection of the music. Without the coughs, there is no reference. We don't know light without dark, happiness without sadness, nor live musical perfection without a few coughs.
Matt Davidson
5 months ago
@Spencer Denning that was not my work. That’s Klaus from Switzerland who disrupted this live performance. In Germanic style his cough is abrupt and slightly syncopated and in the wrong pitch. Mine are always off beat , discreet and only slightly intrusive. Thank you.
