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...role: "What I'm doing may not satisfy purists who aren't used to hearing Bach on synthesizer, harp, trombone, or sax, but Bach can stand and transcend particular musical instruments." He added, "As the Musical Offering was Bach's response to the newest instrument of his day--the piano--we're applying it to the newest instruments of ours...
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...
Urged by his parents to learn to play an instrument, Tsang began playing the piano when he was six. He added the cello at age seven, inspired by a concert which his schoolteacher's son gave. "I fell in love with the tone of the cello," he says, adding, "Besides that, everyone was playing the violin...