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When did Jorge Bolet succeed?

  • Blue Pumpkin
  • Jun 30
  • 1 min read

"I've been a long time arriving everywhere"



The more I research his life, the more I am now convinced that there was no one big moment for Jorge Bolet, but a series of building blocks (as he himself said, if not in those actual words). Near the end of his life, he told someone that he felt as if he'd finally 'done it'. One of the most poignant things he said was in 1975 when asked why he was so late getting up to Toronto for the first time (he had already played in other Canadian cities), he replied: "I've been a long time arriving everywhere".


Yes, I know I'm British, but I would actually say the biggest moment was those 1983 Rachmaninoff masterclasses for the BBC: the 'coping stone' on his career.

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