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Friday, April 27, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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London student brings Steinway to Kansas
By RHONDA HOLMAN Staff Reporter
The desire to study with Sequira Costa, professor of music performance, brought 20-year-old Francis Hornak, London special student, and his German Steinway grand piano to the University of Kansas.
Staff Reporter
"I met him in England when I was studying at the Royal College of Music and I was impressed with his master classes. I asked him if he would allow me to study with him and he said yes," Hornak wrote. "I have one of the greatest concert pianists anywhere is here in Lawrence."
Hornak, who has been at KU since September 1978, will present his first recital in America at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Swartbout where he will be accompanied by
In Sunday's recital, Hornak will be playing Schubert's *Imprompta in C minor*, Op. 90, No. 1; Beethoven's Sonata in D major, Op. 10, No. 3, and Chopin's Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 58: *Nocere a b flat minor*, Op. 9, No. 1; and Scherzer in C sharp minor, Op. 39.
FEW BISHIV SHOB students would be financially able to follow their teacher to America, Hornak said, but an inheritance left by his father made it possible for him to ship his piano to Lawrence and to buy a house.
"I'm luckier than some. I can afford to study in America," he said. "I brought my piano over and nobody but a fanatic would do that ... it is a German Steinway and there is virtually no pianist in States like it except those that two or three others have brought over."
"It's worth it to have an instrument that can produce the sound I want. Of course, these pianos are terribly expensive and most students couldn't afford one. It makes me sad to think that most piano students never play on an instrument with a good sound. The
majority of pianos at KU can never give any sort of beautiful sound."
HORNAK SAID he had considered moving his Steinway to wait before Hecture did his program, but had decided it was imminent to play there.
Hornak said he practiced between four and six hours a day and one lesson a week with Costa but often was disappointed with his performance.
"I expected to do six hours a day, but it's so much a personal thing," he said. "I was a temperamental practitioner. I find discipline rare."
Hornak said he started piano when he was 8 and never felt pushed into becoming serious about it by his family.
Hornak said he thought Costa was a practicing musician with much more musical imagination than some teachers.
"We don't have a musical family at all. We were living in Paris and we had a piano in the flat and my mother decided to put one of the children to it," he said. "I showed some natural talent and everyone said 'Oh, you must become a concert pianist, it's such a wonderful life' not even thinking about all the hours of practice it involved."
"I GET VERY bored with people playing the piano as if it is a typewriter," he said. "When I play music, I search for what I think is an emotional meaning. You can make music academically by looking at this chord and saying 'This should be beautiful' or you can make music by developing a sensitivity within you and opening up your emotions.
"Piano playing" brings up this connotation of professionism and fast fingers. Too many pianists are concerned with producing an acceptable performance instead of a musical performance: it is hard to be able to communicate emotionally with an audience."
There will be a meeting
Held for men and women students who are interested in being Host or Hostesses for the Kansas University Athletic Department on Monday, April 30, 1979 at 6:00 p.m. in Room No. 135 of Parrott Athletic Center.
Membership requirements state that you must be a regularly enrolled K.U. student in good standing during the 1979-80 academic year.
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