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Re: Springtime Recital! Is it too late to submit videos of performance? If it's still possible, where should they be sent?
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! @Judy Kuan Sounds great!
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! ...and then last night, at Carnegie, Nobuyyuki Tsujii....as many know, he's 36, blind since birth, swept the international competition scene when younger,…
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! Yuja Wang and Vikingur Olaffson - two piano program at Carnegie Hall/NYC. Berio, Schubert, Cage, Nancarrow, Adams, Part, Rachmaninoff. Every NYC pianist I know seemed to be there!
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Re: What was the last concert you attended? Yuja Wang and Vikingur Olaffson at Carnegie Hall in NYC. Fantastic two-piano program.
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Re: Springtime Recital! Thinking of playing: Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me'" (transcribed from his August 1926 live radio performance) Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia on My Mind" (transcribed from Oscar Peterson's 1963…
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Re: New Year's Resolutions 2025 MAYBE RESURRECT: Ravel - Ondine Chopin - Polonaise-Fantasie; Ballades 1 and 4; B minor Sonata, last movement; C# minor Etude Opus 10 #4 Beethoven - Sonatas, Opus 54;…
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! Yuja Wang at Carnegie. Excerpt from Messiaen Vingt Regards...all four Chopin Ballades...much more. No limits whatsoever. Up in the balcony, sounded great.
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand? @Kenneth Hoyle I have a Mason & Hamlin BB from 1998 or so. Fantastic instrument. Sarah Faust from NYC's Faust Harrison Pianos (who retailed new Masons at the time) knew I was looking;…
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand? Fazioli, without a doubt. I had occasion to select a concert grand for a performance several years ago. The dealership in NYC/Manhattan from whom the instrument was rented had a Fazioli F 278 and…
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Re: Who was your first music teacher and what valuable lesson did they teach you? I met my first teacher in 1958 when I was 7, in the Bergen County NJ town where I grew up. Her name was Claire von Hofe. She and her husband Henry were 60 and 77 respectively at the time.…
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” @Nigel Rogers Friedman's Chopin Nocturne in E flat Op. 55 No. 2 is looked upon by some as one of the greatest piano recordings ever. He performed prodigiously on Australian radio later in life,…
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” The Scriabin Opus 42 Etudes (and, needless to say, the 10 Sonatas) deserve much more recognition as greatly important works. Ching-Yun Hu's performance is wonderful,…
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” (1) Alexander Slobodyanik. Ukranian pianist, 1941-2008. Hailed as the most jawdropping phenom since Ashkenazy when he debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1968. Powerhouse romantics interpreter,…
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