The first time I heard Carlos on a college radio station I had to stop and pull over - it was as close to a sea change moment in my life as anything - at the end of the day she was/is a human being and it sucks that she has to be an icon of anything because her work speaks for itself and independently of that she is who she is - I love Wilhelm kempff for his interpretation of Beethoven but have no idea of his self-identify - I truly don’t agree with Wendy’s view on copyright but that doesn’t delegitmize what she has created - it takes strong personalities to break conventions and that force isn’t always “right”, but we’re better for those that have them