Martha Argerich to be Honored tonight on the Kennedy Center Presents

...I'm guessing you're a fan of HER recordings of piano works, or just piano works in general?

She's a one-off; I hope it's not too chauvinistic to state that she's about the only female pianist whose recordings I've made a point of purchasing or whose concerts I've been to. Few with better technique, male or female, & the concerts I've seen her play - Prokofiev's 3rd, Liszt's 1st, the Ravel G major - have all been both thrilling & poetic. Rather beautiful in her day & still pretty imposing today, too.

Not sure she'd be appreciative of her being honoured by anyone. I hope not anyway; there should be no place for awards in music or the arts.

Not sure she'd be appreciative of her being honoured by anyone.
But did she attend the awards ceremony?

I hope it's not too chauvinistic to state that she's about the only female pianist whose recordings I've made a point of purchasing or whose concerts I've been to

You can't help liking what you like, although I'm giving you credit that the results would be the same if you didn't know the gender of the musician in advance, if you heard him or her play behind a curtain.

Orchestras today have an awful lot of female musicians so I'm skeptical when I hear that women as a group are lacking something as instrumentalists, power or whatever. I doubt that the female French horn player in the Berlin Phil lacks power or she wouldn't have gotten where she is. I hope all orchestras audition musicians behind a curtain as they do in my local world-class orchestra.