In 2005 Aimard won a Grammy Award for his recording of piano music and songs of Charles Ives.
Franz Liszt turned anything and everything into virtuoso piano music his source material ranged from full symphonies to popular ditties.
The folks at Mudcu.be, who built a lovely color piano music visualizer have nothing to do with Belgium as far as I can tell, but the .be suffix makes for a handy branding opportunity.
Mr Kramer traces his passionate, persuasive argument through chapters on the significance of melody, the transcendent effect of song, the particular appeal of the piano and music as a repository of mythic images.
When she plays Mendelssohn on a piano in a music store, he listens with enchanted intensity.
His low-key, piano-led music has won numerous fans, including Lily Allen, who originally signed him to her record label, In The Name Of, earlier this year.
In every room there is a sense of serenity, whether the children are practicing brush strokes for calligraphy, tumbling around in judo or gliding their little fingers over the harmounia, a type of piano used in music class.
And no two walls are parallel to each other in the living area: The angles prevent sound from bouncing back and forth, so when they sing, or when Ms. Clayton plays her Yamaha C5 piano, the music fills the room.
His older sister, Fanny, was at the Royal Academy of Music for piano.
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In this studio session, Murray Perahia displays his extraordinary and instantly recognizable piano sound, in music by Bach and Chopin.
For more than 40 years, James and his piano have been making beautiful music together.
Now, Brackeen is a professor at Berklee College of Music, with piano master classes and jazz ensembles.
Singing gospel music and playing piano, drums and guitar served as an emotional outlet for the young Brown.
"While he was waiting in line, he saw a piano and was playing classical music like it was Symphony Hall, " McCarthy said.
Merritt's music is hard to pin down: She incorporates gospel, soul, '70s California rock 'n' roll and warm echoes of Joni Mitchell's brand of folk music into her piano-based country songs.
At 15 he began lessons with a local piano teacher to learn to read music.
Try Me Bicycle makes gorgeous, reflective music, with simple piano and guitar lines that drift blissfully on Summery breezes.
He studied composition, singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music and won the Guinness Prize for Composition in 1977.
After a few years spent guesting in bands on vocals and piano, Steph enrolled on college music courses where she was able to develop her own material.
There's nothing of particular note to speak of downstairs in the living room, where Cope gives lessons on a grand piano littered with any number of music books.
Sir Michael studied composition, conducting and piano at the Royal College of music in London, and later became a schoolteacher, teaching French to keep himself while he set about finding a musical voice of his own.
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins heard the new sound, propelled by bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell, and went back to the woodshed to retool his music, excising the piano and guitar and featuring the work of trumpeter Don Cherry, Ornette's perennial sidekick.
As a result, no single piano can do complete justice to the music of every composer.
After high school Wang went on to Berkeley, where after a few weeks' flirtation with a career in music--she played piano--Wang shifted gears and studied economics.
Our idea was to provide piano lessons for underprivileged children and working opportunities for piano teachers who teach them, bringing music into the lives of young people.
And maybe it's because it got to the point during my teens where I just loved the feel and the sound of music in general, the piano specifically.
"For students, a good digital piano is better than a mediocre upright, " said Andrea McAlister, associate professor of piano pedagogy at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where, as at most schools, students learn basic keyboarding skills on digital instruments.
In fact, she says, she didn't write any music, nor even touch a piano or guitar.
At the American Music Awards, she set her piano on fire and belted out a heart-wrenching ballad while smashing wine bottles on the keys.
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