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Now the elections are over, who says we can't squeeze some last minute entertainment out of them?
I found this really funny video on Musical Perceptions.
Sarah Palin Seems like quite a
...th 9 different ideas of how to increase your income. Some of the ideas will be frowned upon by some uppity pianists, but I think they are great and two bad that snobbery often gets the better of us.&n...
... of a great data base for 20th Century Piano Lit. that could come in as a very handy tool for teachers and pianist alike. The site is a database started by Dr. Kathy Rabago, who has degrees in music e...
So what do you think - Does Mr. Bean really Play the Paino?
Thanks to the Collaborative Piano Blog for this Youtube
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This is a Project Guntenberg eBook of Harriette Brower's 1915 book Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianist featuring some of the greatest pianist of the earliest 20h century. I found this on t...
...t, pianologist is in there own words:
a blog about innovative piano playing. Pianologist consists of 2 pianists - KCLau and Rewsnat. We were coursemates studying Aeronautical Engineering at Univer...
Edward Weiss from Piano Musings recommended listening to Solopianoradio.com, I had never heard of it before so of course I went over to listen, and as he predicts in his post I did listen for quite
...e best piano teacher in the Atlanta area for me. Here are some details:
1) I am a pretty advanced church pianist. I am comfortable arranging, improvising, sight-reading, and playing by ear. I have a...
...reat thing about New Age piano playing is that it's much easier to get into than jazz!
The typical jazz pianist spends many hours studying chords and scales with the hopes of one-day being able to ...
...#1, English Suite #3, and French Suite #2. Too bad she only made one CD so far. I started to look at other pianists playing Bach. I listed to Argerich playing a Toccata, Partita #2, and English Suite ...
... have nearly finished reading Charles Rosen's very interesting book 'Piano Notes - The Hidden World of the Pianist' but he does go on rather about Elliot Carter. I don't have the book to hand, but as ...
...would immediately rule himself/herself out of the finals.
Better? In what way? Do you think professional pianists do not already have enough work to do that they need to play in sandboxes? Do you ch...
...although I knew his repertoire was quite large. Nevertheless, he convinced me that he is indeed a complete pianist, as far as style, musicality and technique are concerned. Already his coming on stage...
...t wondering how far this should be generalized. To some extent I guess it must be true of almost all great pianists, but are there other egregious examples people know of where modern recording engine...
...or Orchestra, vol.1' Sym 4: Leopold Stokowski [cond], American S.O. Piano Cto 1, Romeo & Juliet Fant-Ov: ? Pianist, Pierre Monteux [cond], LPO ATM CD-1190
Beethoven: 'Masterpieces for Solo Piano vol...
...se to the key surface.
Can anyone shed some light on how the great piano schools/conservatories or great pianists recommend notes be played?...
... the sale, the next person to come along would buy it. He loves it. It was an impulse purchase. He's not a pianist, but is scheduled to take lessons.
I can find no reference to this piano or the Sch...
...he Animals?
I recently purchased the Classical Express CD with the Ensemble Musique Oblique, but the duo pianists are almost painfully out of synch. There seems to be a version with Philippe Entremo...
...ano'. How is a transcription any less of a piano piece? Especially when done by some of history's greatest pianists (Liszt, Busoni etc.)?
I am getting a little fatigued about my teacher's very narro...
...in your observations that betrays you to have some kind of chip on your shoulder. Are you a failed concert pianist or something? Were you beaten by your parents to play the piano against all of your w...
I am auctioning EMI CD 7 63571 2 on Ebay - please find the link below.
This disc contains pianist Dimitri Bashkirov performing Schumann's Fantasy Op. 17 and selections from Bunte Blaetter, Op. 99. C
...mind when the new Moravec Chopin disc from VOX walked in the door today.
Here we have one of the supreme pianists before the public today realsed on a second (or is it third) string label with photo...
Hallo everyone!
I'm a new-newsgroup (:-)) user...I'm interested to jazz piano and to pianist Mike Garson in particular. Can you suggest me some oh his records, particulary if exist similar job to wh
I have to admit I've always scoffed a bit at electronic keyboards, prefering to stick to the better sound, response, touch and appearance of a piano. However, the practicalities have taken over and I
... my knees will hit the front of the keyboard. I cannot put them a little ways under the keyboad, like most pianists do. I am just one of those odd sizes!
I guess I just have to sit back farther so m...
I was talking about this with the guy at the shop. Which is the more pianist-demanding Brahms piano concerto? Which is more orchestral and less
...se, there is no classical piece that sounds like Otis Spann or the kind of boogie woogie playing that rock pianists use to accompany Chuck Berry songs like 'Johnny B Good'. I'm wondering if there are ...
...th the chords in my right hand, and the improvising in my left. Now i'm wondering, are there a lot of jazz pianists improvising in the left hand register, or is it just a curiosum? And is it worth pra...
...onald Voorhees and the Bell Telephone Orchestra (he's no Reiner)
It's a good chance to see most of these pianists in their prime. One of the biggest surprises for me was to see just how good the 16 ...
I invite you to check out Primetones.com which you can sell your MP3 tracks as not only music tracks but as Cellphone Ringtones! Also for those who create midi we offer Polyphonic midis as ringers and
...no maker,(excuse my english !!!) and it will be interesting for me to know what américan professional and pianist think about the pianos pleyel. Thank you for answers
jean-marc desmurs...
...he only Zacharias CD I have is his double-piano concertos work with Hinrichs, which I really like, but two pianists playing at once confuse my ears. I'd like to read other attempts at quantifying pian...
...in the GPE? I recorded that concert, so I admit to a special fondness for it. But there is a true romantic pianist in full flight!
Other favourites: Geza Anda live in Paris in the late 1960s, unbeli...
I've been a struggling pianist for some time. My main problems with improvement being lack
of time, unfocused practicing, and a memory so poor that I can't play anything without the
music in front
...ng Claudio Arrau Artur Rubinstein Wilhelm Kempff Myra Hess Guiomar Novaes Solomon Wilhelm Backhaus
These pianists were, in the 30s and 40s, all capable of stunning performances of the last two Beeth...
...o master pieces, and listen to a man that Vladimir Horowitz caught every chance he had) Fats Waller (great pianist and very amusing to listen to as well) Duke Ellington (great pianist, very economical...
Why not take what he said at face value?
Not at all. Several notable jazz pianists studied with Nadia
The best jazz pianists play solo or in small combos. Your introduction would miss Tatum, Garner, Powell, Monk, Lewis, Brubeck and it would present Evans in a secondary role at best.
Chick Corea and
... print, and on what CD i might find it?
BTW, apart from Gilels and Moisevitch, are there any other great pianists who have recorded Medtner? I know Sofronitsky has played some of his works, but ther...
...hat the remainder of the performance seems drab, even colorless. That recording is a battle royale between pianist and orchestra; this Bolet recording is more reserved. Cox is no Jarvi; the orchestra ...
... Sonata (#17).
Glenn Gould - A Portrait Two separate documentaries done by the CBC covering the Canadian pianist's life and work. It is to some extent overly deferential and uncritical, but it is a ...
...laying. The tone is on the hard side and the atmosphere of the sonics is sterile, but it's clearly not the pianist's fault. Rudy does a fine job portraying the violent, conflicting emotions in the Son...
From reading the archives, I think I can say that Rudolf Serkin was one of the better pianists of the 20th century. One web review I read stated that his performances after he reached 80 (somewhere ne
...tors' hands. You could almost always see their hands when they were 'playing.' Dreyfus was a more credible pianist in this movie than he was a conductor in 'Mr. Holland's Opus.'
I remember Tyrone Po...
This message is to let you know that the pianist Michel Block passed away yesterday of lymphoma. He lived in Indiana.
Arri Bachrach
...aval' and I have a very specific approach in mind. You are aware that sometimes, record critics say that a pianist has 'let the music speak for itself,' and single him (or her) out for praise for 'not...
...he Russian piano school, in particular its establishment up through the early 1900's. I know that European pianists like Field and Henselt were active in Russia before they (Russia) had a school of th...
...onalistic characteristics. A good example would be Albeniz' Iberia. Will a Spaniard (or at least Hispanic) pianist be likely to give the most satisfying performance of this work?
Do Russian musician...
Has anyone seen for sale (or heard) Mendel. recordings by this pianist ?
... are both the same note, but which would be the conventional way of writing it?
Thanks.
Michael (Not a pianist - but a self taught guitarist)...
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