8 posts tagged “piano”

Show us your favorite YouTube video.

I have three.  They all involve music.  The first one is comedic:

The second one is touching (I am alway moved by what happens at 1:27-40):

The third is an unofficial video for a Regina Spektor song:

Alicia de Larrocha, one of the great female pianists of the twentieth century.

And Douglas Fairbanks, the original action hero, part of the first Hollywood power couple (with Mary Pickford).  Here shown in Zorro.  He did all his own stunts.

Today is Keith Jarrett's birthday.  The link below shows both the reason so many think he is a genius, and the reason why others disagree.  All you pianists out there, enjoy.

Show us your favorite album cover.

The music is pretty darned good, too.

For all you keyboardists, born this day in 1905, Earl "Fatha" Hines:

In appreciation of Scarlatti's birthday, here is an odd little composition composed and played by Hamelin.

Hamelin lives in Philadelphia, when he is not on tour.  As a matter of fact, he lives a block away from me.  I bought Rocky and Bullwinkle tapes from him at a sidewalk sale last year.  Just one of the greatests pianists of our day.

Youtube is full of videos of him, so feel free to browse.  The one I am posting is important, as, starting at around the 5 minute mark, he explains his practice technique.  For any serious piano student, that is must viewing.

Audio: Share an album in your collection that's a classic from the first to the last cut (no need to use the skip button).  Submitted by Cortadito. 

Well, Well, Cornelius

When I was younger, I had all of Aldo Cicollini's albums of Satie music.  This album is the first contemporary classical keyboard music album which I have found which evokes the same sense of contemplative peace in me as those albums did so many years ago.