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Taylor spoke of his career and his experiences in the music industry. He treated the enthusiastic crowd to a few selections on the guitar and fingered the keyboard of a nearby piano several times during his talk...
Illustrating his lecture with frequent trips to the piano, Rosen first demonstrated the difference between written music and the sound produced when that music is played. Both Bach and Beethoven wrote work in which written notes are inaudible but cause the listener to "imagine the links between notes," he said...
Rosen played excerpts from Beethoven's third piano concerto and a Chopin waltz to show the difference between the romantic and classical use of the piano pedal. Whereas Beethoven used the pedal "only as a special effect to reinforce motifs and dynamics," romantic composers considered the removal of the pedal a special effect, he said...
...used to being ignored. Growing up in South Philadelphia where jazz is a "celebrated art form," the people listened when he played. But he left Philadelphia for some reason which he never mentions, and went to Baltimore. A very expensive, trendy downtown cafe needed somebody to play their piano and Collucci needed...
...intense work, musically as well as dramatically, and both the composer and the singer make the most of it. Pasatieri's music is pleasing rather than profound, but his lyrical gift is real. There are beautiful swelling orchestral lines in before Breakfast, and a touching, plangent piano solo. The influence of Gian Carlo Menotti is obvious, but in this, his 14th opera, Pasatieri speaks nonetheless in a voice all his own. Zschau is generally impressive in a role that was originally written for Beverly Sills. Zschau is a fine actress, as well as singer, and her only fault...