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...Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau seems to be pulling off a similar feat with much less fanfare and indignant old ladies in the similarly stuffy realm of classic jazz. Mehldau packages his music like a popular rock artist and has the quirky, rumpled good looks of an indie frontman. But it is the music that makes the man. For his latest album, Anything Goes, Mehldau tackles a collection of standards with his accomplished trio. Mehldau ably reinterprets songs by Thelonius Monk and Henry Mancini, his lithe playing superbly set off by the popping rhythm section...
...country's most prestigious conservatories, has nearly 50 alumni over 70 who still teach and perform on concert tours. "When Isaac Stern turned 70, we told him he was old enough to teach at Curtis," jokes the school's director, Gary Graffman, who at 75 remains a concert pianist...
...know a single pianist whose playing has gotten worse because of his age," Sandor says, insisting that advancing years alone don't end a career. He says a relaxed way of playing can minimize the physical demands placed on muscles. But Sandor hasn't given up on musical fireworks and flash. His programs include everything from dark, difficult Beethoven sonatas (like Opus 111) to dazzling Schumann fantasies...
...Martin Scorcese for Director, Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis for Best Actor) of which neither was considered a viable contender. Their richly deserved triumphs for their work in 2002’s best film not only made the show’s third act immediately exciting (could The Pianist actually ride its momentum to defeat long-standing favorite Chicago?), it offered enough shockers, open-mouthed and otherwise, to renew many viewers’ faith in the Academy for years to come...
Britell has been composing and performing music since he was eight, when he began training as a classical pianist in his hometown of New York City. Later he attended Julliard pre-college, and took a year off after his freshman year at Harvard to decide whether classical piano was his calling—his quest took him from playing in cocktail lounges to studying at the Aspen Music Festival, and back to Cambridge...