CAN WE AUDIOPHILES DO OUR PART?


So we're all tired of hearing about nothing but Covid-19 (or, as I term it, the C-Plague). What can we do, as audiophiles, to help with all this.
I was amazed, and delighted, when I went to the Cardas website to see that they are doing their part. Go to their website and you'll see their director, Angela Cardas, wearing a mask. If you click on the Cardas Nautilus logo in the upper left corner, you'll see pictures of people there in the factory making masks with sewing machines. I called the company to congratulate them, and spoke with a woman named Darla, who said it was their way, during this economic slump, to keep their employees working and also their way of trying to "do our part."
I'm not writing all this to advertise Cardas products. They are a very good company, but trust your ears, not anything I write, when it comes to buying their products. They do get credit, however, for helping me come to a realization that pushed me in the right direction. I called a woman I am friends with, who is 85 years old and is a good seamstress, to suggest she start making masks. She already was--and is. By phone she has organized several other women to do the same, and right now they are needing more material and elastic. I managed to gather about 50 pounds of material and am starting to gather elastic while also getting more material. But I don't sew. I can't help out with that. Any ideas as to what we--all of us who are good with our ears and focused with our budgets--can do to help out in other ways?

I realize this is an odd topic to bring to an audio forum, but it was a very socially responsible audio company that got me to thinking about it, and frankly I believe I should be socially responsible enough to do what I can to get other people to thinking about it. While also being open to other people's ideas about ways someone like me who is "just an audiophile" can help.

Thank you, in advance, for any and all ideas on this.



baumli
I guess I will go with Arrau and Chopin then. Now, I can just hope there are decent recordings of it.
Alas! almost all is dirty recordings, sorry glupson....But close the light and try that...forget the sound....This is pure miraculous probing of the soul....I never even listen anybody touching that playing... Try another one after that, anybody and compare.. You will see...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLk6vqaxU1Y

He never owned a piano most of his life, dont give a damn for money, and was married 10 times... When his last wife was in bad health, he decide to record past 74 years old i think, to gain money for his health, without any piano for practice most of his life :)  He was very poor....He hates his mother who keep him like a circus ape on the stage from his birth to his 16 birthday...After that he hated concert very much...He even play one time under a hood, to no avail, because his playing is impossible to forget then easy to recognize...

Schoenberg who was not fond of simple musicians, they are slaves for his own composer creations only, wrote to the young Klemperer that he must come immediately to New-York swiftly crossing the Atlantic to listen to the Hungarian god at the piano... The letter is easy to spot on the internet.... :)

When he was 13 years old a book on musical genius was written by a Dutch psychologist and was entirely about him... He was Liszt reincarnated for Hungarian people and for the world scene....

The rest is legendary.....
mahgister,

After reading this thread last night, I picked what Chopin I have for today's commute. It is Murray Perahia (link below) playing sonatas and some more. What do you think of his interpretations, if you have heard them? I must admit that, unlike Arrau and Nyiregyházi from youtube, I did not find it engaging at all. What is your take on it? I am a total ignorant when it comes to this.

https://www.discogs.com/Chopin-Murray-Perahia-4-Ballades/release/13320080
@glupson  not sure if you are familiar with Chopin's Nocturnes. If not, PLEASE give them a listen. They are the works that made me fall in love with Chopin.
We have self-selected ourselves for at least one skill - our ability to listen so USE YOUR EARS!
Listen to the people around you and elsewhere in the world.
Just as you do for your hobby every day, use your powers of discernment and do your best to decide what is garbage and what is your "truth".

Those truths should then guide your actions