Christopher O'Riley Over the coming months, I will be sharing my videos home-recorded on the venerable Steinway CD207 of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier. I have long maintained that there is more to learn about playing the piano from the study of Bach’s music; knowledge, insight, inspiration and imaginative freedom that can be applied to all piano music. …
Over the coming months, I will be sharing my videos home-recorded on the venerable Steinway CD207 of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier. I have long maintained that there is more to learn about playing the piano from the study of Bach’s music; knowledge, insight, inspiration and imaginative freedom that can be applied to all piano music. …
It’s taken me decades to master this 80’s anthem, a favorite and essential arrangement for my darling of many years; a favorite song of hers. I’d originally planned on playing this on Arielle, my concert grand, but my completely rebuilt mahogony 121-year-old Steinway B, Clarice, was clearly the hardest rocking piano in the house. Good …
I love my Steinway Concert Grand, CD207, house piano at NYC’s 92nd St. Y in the 80’s when she was born, then became Alicia Delarrocha’s favorite piano in NY, finally retired after touring with Billy Joel, and now come to rest in the Hollywood Hills. Hence, these OneTake captures on my favorite piano in the …
Thanks to Steve Valdek and Barry Damerell @Schmitt Music, Denver’s Steinway dealer, for capturing this class in its entirety. The kids were great and game for trying new things. This was followed next day by my all-Liszt recital for Englewood Arts, on the beautiful Steinway D on loan from the Colorado Symphony, lovingly and expertly …
Re: the rally in Tampa, I had a teaching moment, caught up in the outrage viewing this inchoate and virulent mob, the President* egging them on in his dangerously autocratic framing of the press as the ‘enemy of the people’, I posted the spittle-flecked footage and made a good pun on ‘euphemism’ that I quickly …