Word: blacklow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his extensive experience playing solo concerts and recitals and accompaniments for other instruments, the Boston native says that he would like to study the works of more composers and perhaps learn to play more instruments. In high school, Blacklow played the trumpet, but explains, "I wanted to practice two hours of that and two hours of piano, so I dropped it." Now, he is interested in taking up other keyboard instruments, like the harpsichord...
...Blacklow says that he has no all-time favorite pieces of music. Although his piano teacher gives him a choice of materials to work on, he says. "Whenever I'm playing a certain piece, that's the one I love at a particular moment...
...Blacklow explains that his love for such diverse activities as reading, hiking and travelling is vital to his work at the piano. "Like a writer, I have to draw on my own experience to play well...
...drawback to being a piano player is that, unlike most other instruments, you can't take yours with you, and the quality of strange pianos may be poor. Blacklow says that travel can be difficult for him, because he must find a piano immediately. On a recent trip to Florida, for example, he had to obtain permission from the manager of the hotel where he was staying to use the piano in the hotel lounge during if-hours...
...When I'm playing in a public place," Blacklow says, "usually some old lady will come up and tell me her niece played guitar for a year...