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Posted by chris howell on March 15, 2007, 11:14 am, in reply to "Re: Hatto? Ha!"
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Fascinating.
I suppose I'll be branded a first-class swine for even raising the question, but how strange that a person who has had a "long (and generally considered successful) career as a teacher both in London and Israel" does not reveal his name. Such a teacher would have to be well-known at least in the professional world. Taking into consideration his Indian birth, can anyone identify him?
Perhaps not. The mix of personal experience, real facts and unverifiable background detail, together with the odd bold exaggeration - "fresh off the boat from India, desiring to make a career as a pianist, badly trained, impoverished, alone and penniless" - sounds curiously similar to numerous letters I have received from a certain source over the last two or three years. So, too, do certain misspellings - "Lizst" three times is hardly a typing error and then there's "Ashkenazi". These hook up with "Haskel" and "Paderewsky" all too well.
At this point one even wonders who the "Reuben" who recently posted here really is.
Since there is absolutely no reason why ex-pupils of Hatto should not speak up in their own names, I would urge them to do so. Otherwise the suspicion will remain that, either WBC has been busy again, or somebody else finds it amusing to muddy the waters still further.
Christopher Howell
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