McCoy Tyner - My Favorite Things [Echoes of a Friend] 1972

McCoy Tyner is one of the most important pianists in jazz history. His 40+ year career is remarkable for its diversity and consistent high quality. I consider this recording his crowning achievement. Not only is "Echoes of a Friend" my favorite Tyner recording, I consider it to be one of the finest solo piano recordings I have ever heard.

#McCoyTyner #jazz

This experiment is being conducted by researchers at Harvard University. Before you decide to participate, please read the following information.

We study how the mind works. Specifically, in this research we are investigating how people make sense of music they hear. We will play you some sounds. You can use speakers or headphones. We will ask you questions about what you hear. The experiment takes at least 20 minutes.

We will ask you to answer questions concerning your emotions and behaviors, your preferences and beliefs about music and the arts, your engagement with musical activities, your personal history of musical exposure and training

#survey #quiz #experiment

Emanuele Arciuli performs live from the Miami International Piano Festival the piece - "Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60", 2nd movt, Hawthorne by Charles Ives.

The piece demonstrates Ives' experimental tendencies: much of it is written without barlines, the harmonies are advanced, and in the second movement, there is a cluster chord created by depressing the piano's keys with a 14 3⁄4-inch (37 cm) piece of wood.

#CharlesIves #sonata #EmanueleArciuli #performing #live #festival #Hawthorne

Derek can recall any song on piano after only hearing it once.

In Autistic Superstars, presenter Reggie Yates seeks out a cast of talented young people with autism to perform at a major music event he is planning to host in London.

As we meet each new member of the line up, we take a journey into the autistic mind, learning what it is like to live with this complex condition. We also meet the parents and families, discovering more about the challenges of caring for an autistic child.

#autistism #talented #disorder #derek #medical #inspiration

This is what happens when AC/DC's Thunderstruck and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (3rd movement) is blended together.

#PeterBence #beethoven #moonlight #sonata #thunderstruck #acdc #cover

Professor Cooper’s edition does throw one blindingly obvious change at the music world. There are no longer 32 Beethoven piano sonatas, as books and performers will tell you, but 35. Not that Professor Cooper has discovered three more. Rather, he has reconsidered and admitted to the canon three early sonatas written when Beethoven was 12, usually set aside as juvenilia.

“I can find no reason why they shouldn’t be counted,” he said, “and indeed they were in the first complete edition of the sonatas, published just after Beethoven’s death by his friend Haslinger, who presumably knew what Beethoven wanted. They are fully fledged, three-movement works, and if they lack something in quality, you could say the same of some of the Opus 49 Sonatas, and you surely wouldn’t exclude those from the canon.

#beethoven #sonata #mystery #cooper

⭐️Lunchtime Concert FULLY SUBSCRIBED - Please be seated by 12.20pm⭐️

To cater to walk-ins and in anticipation of ticket-holders who do not show up, ALL arriving after 12.20pm will be treated as walk-ins, even if you have a ticket. We cannot guarantee availability of seats at any time after 12.20pm. Such is the nature of ticketed free concerts - thank you for your support and understanding!

Lunchtime Concert At VCH, performance 12.30 - 1.30pm, Victoria Concert Hall.

We apologise in advance should seats not be available. Please also consider coming to our free concert at Gardens by the Bay, 6.30pm on Sunday, 15 March - a similar, and slightly longer programme.

#sso

Yuja Wang played the famous arrangement by Volodos and Say of the Turhisch Marsch by Mozart, last movement of the Sonata KV 333 in A major (but the Marsch is in A minor).

In fact, it is not a proper arrangement by Arcadi Volodos and Fazil Say.

Yuja Wang has made a mix between the Volodos version and the more jazzy Say version. She begins with Volodos, then plays Say, and then she alternates both transcriptions.

#mozart #TurkishMarch #RondoAllaTurca #ArcadiVolodos #YujaWang #FazilSay

The Chopin Competition is the most important musical event in Poland and one of the most important musical events in the world.

Apart from its huge role in popularising Chopin's music, it discovers the greatest pianistic talents, providing young musicians with the most effective start in their international career. It is a source of multicultural polarisation, which the world observes in various interpretations of the music of the brilliant composer.

The first Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw took place in 1927, and was to be organized every five years.

Do you know the past winners?

#chopin #competition #warsaw

Feb 29, 2020- Chopin Competition: Finals, Part One,
Starting: 7 PM
Location: Miami-Dade County Auditorium, Miami
Live Streaming on chopin.org from 6:30 PM

#chopin #competition #live #teacher #parent

Once a fixture in the American home, pianos are easy to find for cheap these days and those who own them are having trouble finding people take them off their hands.

A trend of unwanted pianos has been felt across the nation for years, according to news reports.

The National Association of Music Merchants reports merchandisers sold 364,500 pianos in 1909, but it’s been a steady slide since, picking up speed in the 21st century.

"Yamaha sold fewer acoustic pianos as years went by because customers were instead buying electric pianos. The digitization of music over the decades, as well as the increase in activities available to young people, has pulled attention away from the acoustic piano and the music for which it was designed", one said.

#abandon #disposal #acoustic #digital #buy #sell