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Charles R. Walter model W190 piano tuned and maintained by Tom Levings RPTP.
Also known as "The Barn Owl Lingers On!" by Leoš Janáček. This was used in the film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".
On the program of my Old Church concert on Oct. 5.
Recorded live at Reed College, January 1990.
His most popular piano piece. He could not leave the concert stage without playing it. So he ended up calling it simply "it".
I'll be playing this again at my Old Church concert on July 20.
Recorded July 2, 2015. Beethoven's original title (Seven Variations on "God Save the King") has been changed for the Fourth of July holiday. He wouldn't have known of the use of this tune for "My Country 'Tis of Thee" which was first heard in 1832, five years after his death.
Bach wrote this in the Notebook for his wife Anna Magdalena in 1722. Twenty years laters he used it as the basis for a set of variations which he wrote on commission.
We know these as the 'Goldberg Variations'.
An impromptu recording in my studio for Bach in the Subways Day March 21, 2015
, being Bach´s 330th birthday.
Performance from my recent program on the Steinway D at Michelle's Piano Company in Portland, OR.
Recorded for Thanksgiving 2014. In evoking the "Orchard House" of the Bronson Alcott family in Concord, Mass., Charles Ives wrote in 1919: "Within the house, on every side, lie remembrances of what imagination can do for the better amusement of children who have to do for themselves-much needed lessons in these days of automatic, ready-made, easy entertainment which deaden rather than stimulate the creative faculty. And there sits the little ole spinet-piano Sophia Thoreau gave to the Alcott children, on which Beth played the old Scotch airs, and played at the 'Fifth Symphony'."
A quirky tune for Halloween
Familiar as the theme of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, this was originally a piano piece by Charles Gounod, written in 1873 while he was living in London. It became very popular with Victorian audiences with its depiction of a funeral cortege for a broken marionette.
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