"I still don’t know why my playing is considered so disturbing. I remember in school, as a child, I learned that the flame of a candle is composed of a yellow light, which actually burns, and a blue light within it, which is ice cold. That is true of human beings as well. Perhaps it is the sight of that blue light in me that frightens certain people.” ... Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012)
French pianist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Q86WssF38
When he and his mother tried to flee German-occupied Bulgaria for Turkey with fake ID and visa papers in 1941, he recalled in an essay on his website, they landed in “an improvised concentration camp’’ in Bulgaria for people crossing the border illegally. He said the German-guarded camp was probably intended to send people to Poland - and extermination. They were lucky: After three months in the unspecified camp, a German guard who enjoyed listening to him play Schubert on an accordion helped them escape by train.
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