2:10 - Louisiana: Louis Moreau Gottschalk 2:56 - Indiana: Jonathan Biss 3:11 - New Jersey: Seymour Bernstein 3:29 - Colorado: John Browning 4:03 - Ohio: Art Tatum 4:55 - California: Leon Fleisher 5:39 - South Dakota: Abby Whiteside 6:01 - Alabama: Julian Martin 6:18 - Maine: Henry Kramer 6:35 - Illinois: Rosalyn Tureck 7:25 - Rhode Island: Wendy Carlos 7:45 - Connecticut: Charles Ives 8:36 - Virginia: Bruce Hornsby 9:12 - Florida: Michelle Cann 9:21 - Arkansas: Florence Price 10:08 - Delaware: Matthew Shipp 10:22 - Maryland: Sara Davis Buechner 11:02 - New Hampshire: Amy Beach 11:43 - Utah: Desirae Brown, Deondra Brown, Gregory Brown, Melody Brown and Ryan Brown 12:01 - Nebraska: Roger Williams 12:22 - Nevada: Władziu Valentino Liberace 12:41 - Kansas: Stan Kenton 12:57 - Minnesota: Kenneth Broberg 13:10 - Massachusetts: Leonard Bernstein 13:15 - Georgia: Mary Lou Williams (the state, not the country) 13:40 - Oregon: Thomas Lauderdale 13:54 - Idaho: La Monte Young 14:13 - West Virginia: George Crumb 14:55 - Puerto Rico: Jesús María Sanromá 15:18 - Oklahoma: Louis Wayne Ballard 15:44 - Missouri: Dominic Cheli 15:59 - Wisconsin: Lynne Arriale 16:20 - Alaska: Susan Wingrove-Reed 16:40 - Pennsylvania: Keith Jarrett (Byron Janis and Earl Wild were both from there too!) 17:03 - South Carolina: Eskew Reeder "Esquerita" 17:22 - North Dakota: Frank Scott 17:42 - New Mexico: John Lewis (the pianist, not the department store) 17:52 - Mississippi: Hank Jones 18:50 - New York: Garrick Ohlsson 19:33 - Michigan: Geri Allen 19:45 - Kentucky: Bobbe Gorin "Beegie" Adair 20:01 - Wyoming: Richard Kermode 20:10 - Washington: Charlie Albright 20:25 - Arizona: Connor Chee 20:40 - District of Columbia: Sarah Cahill 20:56 - Vermont: Adam Tendler 21:11 - Iowa: Bruce Brubaker 21:30 - North Carolina: Nina Simone 22:08 - Montana: Nelita True 22:22 - Tennessee: Hargus "Pig" Robbins 22:45 - Hawaii: Betty Loo Taylor 22:55 - Texas: Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn
I think I would have chosen Murray Perahia for New York. If given the choice to go to either an Ohlsson concert or to see Perahia, I would pay to see Perahia.
I come from the "state" of Poland, and we had some quite decent pianists... Chopin, Paderewski, Rubinstein, Mikuli, Tausig, Friedman, Hofmann, Koczalski, Michałowski, Rosenthal, Ekier, Horszowski, Szpilman, Czerny-Stefańska, Harasiewicz, Zimerman, Blechacz, Anderszewski, Możdżer.
You omitted the great pianist Earl Wild (1915-2010), born in Pittsburgh, PA. Read his Wikipedia page. He played for five US presidents. On YT you can hear him play his arrangements of some Rachmaninoff and Gershwin songs, as well as his recordings of Liszt's "Reminiscences of Robert le Diable" and the Rachmaninoff piano concerti.
Weird Al Yankovic is back! Seriously, good, informative video, and thanks for explaining why the title is what you chose. It made the rest of the video feel less arbitrary.
I would definitely take a video all about Gottschalk. This was such a great video though - fun to learn a tidbit about the pianists you chose and fun to see how many I had heard of!!
Hi Tony - nice to bump into you here. Love your channel. For Mary Lou, my hometown of Pittsburgh can also claim a role! Though I can't complain about the pianist that was chosen to represent the state of Pennsylvania. 😀
Joshua! I was especially pleased to see that you mentioned JMS because I own the Steinway B that he played in his trips to Boston. I only wish that he had left an imprint of his wonderful talent on the keys!
Watching from Ukraine. Thanks for an incredible cascade of glimpses of American pianism. Perhaps for me as a person who was largely introduced to American musical tradition by Rhapsody in Blue, the New York choise was a little bit surprising, but at the end it is all the game of preferences)
I'm glad there was even a passing mention of MacDowell (11:09), who has had the strange privilege of being my favorite composer for about six years. His music is just as original as any of the major European romantics when performed by a professional. (Think Van Cliburn's interpretation of MacDowell's 2nd Concerto, which will forever be among his best recordings. Oh, and I see Cliburn got a mention as well at 23:05. Bravo!) Leave it to an amateur and it sounds just-well, not very good. Greetings from Michigan.
Thanks for your kind comment! I love MacDowell’s music. Julian Martin encouraged me to learn the 2nd concerto when I was in high school, and I loved it. Sanromá also has an amazing recording of that concerto. Thanks for tuning in!
It’s a bit unfair to have Liberace for Nevada when other composers were included for states that they had little connection to outside of their birth. Liberace learned the piano in Wisconsin and was heavily inspired by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, whom he saw perform at the Pabst Theater in his hometown of Milwaukee in the late 20s. He debuted with the Chicago Symphony, under Frederick Stock, at the Pabst in 1940.
I wonder what would be a list for Canada. Glenn Gould for Ontario, obviously, and Oscar Peterson for Quebec (or Hamelin?). I would love to discover the one from other provinces.
I absolutely agree, another one of the New York born pianists who could easily have been chosen there! (He could probably deserve his own whole video as well!)
Pittsburgh, PA: Arwadagin Pratt, amazing performer and teacher; Patricia Prattis-Jennings, former Pittsburgh Symphony staff pianist. She also for years baked gourmet cheesecakes for some of the finest restaurants!😊 I heard her several times: she played major works for organ and harpsicord as well!
Is this list based on where they were born, or resided? I think it's supposed to be born, but Liberace is from Wisconsin, not Nevada. I think he lived in Las Vegas. If it's resided, Rubinstein lived in Beverly Hills and would easily be the greatest pianist who lived in California. (Some might say Rachmaninoff by that criteria, but I would not). I like Ohlsson a lot, but Perahia would have to be a greater pianist from New York. Many great ones from Pennsylvania: Wild, Susan Starr, Byron Janis…
That’s the inevitable challenge of a project like this - it doesn’t account for the countless number of great local scenes and musicians all around the country!
Best pianist on the planet ... maybe in the entire galaxy ... ruclips.net/video/DOsOLkQpGyA/видео.html There are gifted musicians and then there is Hiromi -- she's in a league of her own.
Interesting - but silly. One pianist per state is click bait but dumb. Earl Wild from PA gets no mention. William Kapell NY no mention. Michael Tilson Thomas CA, Murray Perahia NY, Stephen Kovacevich CA, Emmet Cohen FL, Leonard Pennario NY, George Gershwin NY, Julius Katchen NJ..and on and on and on and on. Like I say - your list is fun but silly.
Terrible video.....lots of "narrative" lauding here. I am from Michigan...you obviously need more exposure to the brilliant pianists here. Skelton or Conway for starters......Even Barry Harris!!...but it doesn't surprise me coming from this channel. So basically the best are your contributors...got it.
Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it! Indeed many states could have had entire videos dedicated to them with how many great pianists represent them. Thanks for sharing some of your favorites from your home state.
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Hi!! How about some Shostakovich tutorials? :) A Shostakovich second piano concerto would be great!! (My opinion, of course :) )
a lot of great pianists from the us if there's no place for william kapell, earl wild ,julius katchen ,byron janis, alan feinberg, craig sheppard, andrew rangell or even george winston
Great list. I've been lucky enough to meet several of the pianists you featured... Biss, Fleisher, Bernstein, Jarrett and played for Tureck in a masterclass. Nelita True was a personal friend for 30+ years... I'm so glad you included her. I'm in Michigan and while we have many great pianists here most are from elsewhere. For me, the best pianist from Michigan would have to be someone I know and studied with for a short time and that's Penelope Crawford.
Interesting project, and of course there is classical culture in the US. To name just one example, the music of Mahler may not have survived antisemitism the way it has without the enthusiasm of American music lovers, American Mahler societies etc.
Kentucky has Sylvia Kersenbaum. While she was born in Argentina, she's been in Kentucky for over 40 years. Contemporary of Argerich, studied with the same teacher, was recognized by EMI as having one of the best 100 recordings of the century. Georgia was wrong too. Surely that's got to be Virsaladze 😊.
Why in the world wouldn't you edit them alphabetically by state name, so viewers can "find" their state. Seems you mixed the states up to "force" us to watch the whole thing.
I think there’s a pretty good argument that Lee Luvisi was the greatest pianist from Kentucky. He was born and raised in Louisville and went off to Curtis age 14 to study with Serkin and Horszowski. He joined factulty at Curtis at age 18 and eventually moved back to Louisville to marry his childhood sweetheart. While he is relatively unknown, it was his choice not to perform as much as he had opportunity to do so. One of his many great acomplishments is premiering the Zimbalist concerto (the original score of this concerto died on the plane with William Kapell. When Zimbalist rewrote the concerto, nobody wanted to premier it premier it because of its difficulty). He was Peter Serkin’s first teacher, and had other great students. One of whom, Thomas Hoppe, is an active chamber performer in Germany right now. He has a handful of recordings on his RUclips channel.
One might add that ABM, in addition to his brilliant pianism, was a champion racing driver for Ferrari, with high finishes in the Molle Miglia and the Targa Florio. Uomo universale.
I see in your opening thumbnail a map of America with a picture of Liberace representing Nevada. Why him? He is not a very good pianist (see Horowitz saying so in an interview). And why not the great Tiffany Poon to represent New York? I went to a concert of hers recently and was blown away by her power, delicacy and all-round artistry. At the end of the concert she then gave generously of her time, speaking at length to anyone who wanted to meet her. Of course, I am only joking about Liberace being on the map. But I am not joking about Ms. Poon. My teacher comes from both the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky line (through Nikolaev), so I think I have some pedestal of authority from which to speak.
i received lessons from henry kramer for a year and he was one of the worst teachers i ever had. he could not control his temper, often crossing boundaries with huge outburst, lobbing insults and making students uncomfortable. He formally apologized on several occasions but continued to be a horses ass. Being a great pianist (he is) does not make you a great educator and he is the perfect example. His entire studio was uncomfortable, we took our concern to admin and they did nothing (though he left after a year), and when he taught doctoral keyboard lit it had no direction whatsoever, he gave us a playlist of 3 hours of music and just told us to memorize it. This is my own personal experience, and i wouldn't recommend him to anyone.
2:10 - Louisiana: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
2:56 - Indiana: Jonathan Biss
3:11 - New Jersey: Seymour Bernstein
3:29 - Colorado: John Browning
4:03 - Ohio: Art Tatum
4:55 - California: Leon Fleisher
5:39 - South Dakota: Abby Whiteside
6:01 - Alabama: Julian Martin
6:18 - Maine: Henry Kramer
6:35 - Illinois: Rosalyn Tureck
7:25 - Rhode Island: Wendy Carlos
7:45 - Connecticut: Charles Ives
8:36 - Virginia: Bruce Hornsby
9:12 - Florida: Michelle Cann
9:21 - Arkansas: Florence Price
10:08 - Delaware: Matthew Shipp
10:22 - Maryland: Sara Davis Buechner
11:02 - New Hampshire: Amy Beach
11:43 - Utah: Desirae Brown, Deondra Brown, Gregory Brown, Melody Brown and Ryan Brown
12:01 - Nebraska: Roger Williams
12:22 - Nevada: Władziu Valentino Liberace
12:41 - Kansas: Stan Kenton
12:57 - Minnesota: Kenneth Broberg
13:10 - Massachusetts: Leonard Bernstein
13:15 - Georgia: Mary Lou Williams (the state, not the country)
13:40 - Oregon: Thomas Lauderdale
13:54 - Idaho: La Monte Young
14:13 - West Virginia: George Crumb
14:55 - Puerto Rico: Jesús María Sanromá
15:18 - Oklahoma: Louis Wayne Ballard
15:44 - Missouri: Dominic Cheli
15:59 - Wisconsin: Lynne Arriale
16:20 - Alaska: Susan Wingrove-Reed
16:40 - Pennsylvania: Keith Jarrett (Byron Janis and Earl Wild were both from there too!)
17:03 - South Carolina: Eskew Reeder "Esquerita"
17:22 - North Dakota: Frank Scott
17:42 - New Mexico: John Lewis (the pianist, not the department store)
17:52 - Mississippi: Hank Jones
18:50 - New York: Garrick Ohlsson
19:33 - Michigan: Geri Allen
19:45 - Kentucky: Bobbe Gorin "Beegie" Adair
20:01 - Wyoming: Richard Kermode
20:10 - Washington: Charlie Albright
20:25 - Arizona: Connor Chee
20:40 - District of Columbia: Sarah Cahill
20:56 - Vermont: Adam Tendler
21:11 - Iowa: Bruce Brubaker
21:30 - North Carolina: Nina Simone
22:08 - Montana: Nelita True
22:22 - Tennessee: Hargus "Pig" Robbins
22:45 - Hawaii: Betty Loo Taylor
22:55 - Texas: Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn
That was kind, John Green--thank you!
Thank you!
Earl Wild Pennsylvania!
I think I would have chosen Murray Perahia for New York. If given the choice to go to either an Ohlsson concert or to see Perahia, I would pay to see Perahia.
William Kappell should be on any list of greatest pianists from the US...
New York, William Kapell “ Best Pianist America has ever produced” According to the New York Times.~
Scott Joplin ? For Texas ?
right!!!!!
I'd love to see a follow up video with the "best pianist" from every EU country 🙂
We need 1 hour only for Russia and Ukraine 😅
@@pianoplaynight - Haha, so true!
That would be the most controversial video ever… There is absolutely no way to narrow down to one pianist per EU country!
I come from the "state" of Poland, and we had some quite decent pianists... Chopin, Paderewski, Rubinstein, Mikuli, Tausig, Friedman, Hofmann, Koczalski, Michałowski, Rosenthal, Ekier, Horszowski, Szpilman, Czerny-Stefańska, Harasiewicz, Zimerman, Blechacz, Anderszewski, Możdżer.
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Watching from Nigeria. Always a big follower of classical music and tonebase piano. Love you all
I love Seymore Bernstein but over Bill Evans? And Garrick is great and genius, but Duke Ellington had a bigger impact on piano.
You omitted the great pianist Earl Wild (1915-2010), born in Pittsburgh, PA. Read his Wikipedia page. He played for five US presidents. On YT you can hear him play his arrangements of some Rachmaninoff and Gershwin songs, as well as his recordings of Liszt's "Reminiscences of Robert le Diable" and the Rachmaninoff piano concerti.
I really believe Fats Waller should have been the best pianist from New York.
He is, of course, a legend. I was very close to choosing him - it was hard to balance jazz and classical masters!
Weird Al Yankovic is back!
Seriously, good, informative video, and thanks for explaining why the title is what you chose. It made the rest of the video feel less arbitrary.
Dale gribble sighting ☝️
I would definitely take a video all about Gottschalk. This was such a great video though - fun to learn a tidbit about the pianists you chose and fun to see how many I had heard of!!
I think Earl Wild or Byron Janis deserves the mention for Pennsylvania over Keith Jarret.
Pennsylvania is a wealth of riches and both Janis and Wild could have easily been chosen!
@@tonebasePiano I think the choice of Keith Jarrett is an inspired one! :-)
You got Georgia right - Mary Lou Williams !
Thanks. Now I don’t have to watch the entire ridiculous out-of-order video!
@TonyWinston she is a legend! 🙌
Hi Tony - nice to bump into you here. Love your channel.
For Mary Lou, my hometown of Pittsburgh can also claim a role!
Though I can't complain about the pianist that was chosen to represent the state of Pennsylvania. 😀
Thank you for mentioning Puerto Rico and Jesús María Sanromá!
Joshua! I was especially pleased to see that you mentioned JMS because I own the Steinway B that he played in his trips to Boston. I only wish that he had left an imprint of his wonderful talent on the keys!
Watching from Ukraine. Thanks for an incredible cascade of glimpses of American pianism. Perhaps for me as a person who was largely introduced to American musical tradition by Rhapsody in Blue, the New York choise was a little bit surprising, but at the end it is all the game of preferences)
Greetings from Odesa:))
I'm glad there was even a passing mention of MacDowell (11:09), who has had the strange privilege of being my favorite composer for about six years.
His music is just as original as any of the major European romantics when performed by a professional.
(Think Van Cliburn's interpretation of MacDowell's 2nd Concerto, which will forever be among his best recordings. Oh, and I see Cliburn got a mention as well at 23:05. Bravo!)
Leave it to an amateur and it sounds just-well, not very good.
Greetings from Michigan.
Thanks for your kind comment! I love MacDowell’s music. Julian Martin encouraged me to learn the 2nd concerto when I was in high school, and I loved it. Sanromá also has an amazing recording of that concerto. Thanks for tuning in!
Nice pull for La Monte Young for Idaho!
My home town Boise, Idaho claims Gene Harris, even though Gene was born in Michigan.
Appreciate Leon Fleisher!
This is ridiculous, but you got my click, bravo.
Thelonious Monk deserves a spot. Such a unique way of interpreting the piano
Thank you for this very interesting documentary😊 Greetings from Germany
Ontario: Glenn Gould
Quebec: Oscar Peterson
Alberta: Jan Lisiecki
BC:
Manitoba:
Nova Scotia:
… ?
Marc-Andre Hamelin for Quebec would be another option
BC: Diana Krall
It’s a bit unfair to have Liberace for Nevada when other composers were included for states that they had little connection to outside of their birth. Liberace learned the piano in Wisconsin and was heavily inspired by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, whom he saw perform at the Pabst Theater in his hometown of Milwaukee in the late 20s. He debuted with the Chicago Symphony, under Frederick Stock, at the Pabst in 1940.
Love the concept but the video is too concise, you should write a book
California -> Ruth Slenczynska
I vote Cecil Taylor for New York!
Silent Tongues!
I wonder what would be a list for Canada. Glenn Gould for Ontario, obviously, and Oscar Peterson for Quebec (or Hamelin?). I would love to discover the one from other provinces.
Oooh that’s a fun idea for a future video!
William Kapell is one of the most brilliant American pianists!
I absolutely agree, another one of the New York born pianists who could easily have been chosen there! (He could probably deserve his own whole video as well!)
Pittsburgh, PA: Arwadagin Pratt, amazing performer and teacher; Patricia Prattis-Jennings, former Pittsburgh Symphony staff pianist. She also for years baked gourmet cheesecakes for some of the finest restaurants!😊 I heard her several times: she played major works for organ and harpsicord as well!
Is this list based on where they were born, or resided? I think it's supposed to be born, but Liberace is from Wisconsin, not Nevada. I think he lived in Las Vegas. If it's resided, Rubinstein lived in Beverly Hills and would easily be the greatest pianist who lived in California. (Some might say Rachmaninoff by that criteria, but I would not). I like Ohlsson a lot, but Perahia would have to be a greater pianist from New York. Many great ones from Pennsylvania: Wild, Susan Starr, Byron Janis…
There a large number of excellent jazz and classical pianists presently residing in Colorado. I don't know where they were born.
That’s the inevitable challenge of a project like this - it doesn’t account for the countless number of great local scenes and musicians all around the country!
Best pianist on the planet ... maybe in the entire galaxy ...
ruclips.net/video/DOsOLkQpGyA/видео.html
There are gifted musicians and then there is Hiromi -- she's in a league of her own.
Interesting - but silly. One pianist per state is click bait but dumb. Earl Wild from PA gets no mention. William Kapell NY no mention. Michael Tilson Thomas CA, Murray Perahia NY, Stephen Kovacevich CA, Emmet Cohen FL, Leonard Pennario NY, George Gershwin NY, Julius Katchen NJ..and on and on and on and on. Like I say - your list is fun but silly.
Absolutely - fun and silly is the very spirit of an endeavor like this! Thanks for all the excellent pianists you bring up here.
And that list could go on and on thus making this video 10 hours long.
Jelly Roll Morton, born in Louisiana. He is jazz music history!
Terrible video.....lots of "narrative" lauding here. I am from Michigan...you obviously need more exposure to the brilliant pianists here. Skelton or Conway for starters......Even Barry Harris!!...but it doesn't surprise me coming from this channel. So basically the best are your contributors...got it.
Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it! Indeed many states could have had entire videos dedicated to them with how many great pianists represent them. Thanks for sharing some of your favorites from your home state.
Hi!! How about some Shostakovich tutorials? :) A Shostakovich second piano concerto would be great!! (My opinion, of course :) )
Some Shostakovich content is definitely overdue on this channel - thanks for the reminder!
Nice video!
a lot of great pianists from the us if there's no place for william kapell, earl wild ,julius katchen ,byron janis, alan feinberg, craig sheppard, andrew rangell or even george winston
Very good long videos could be made about any one of those incredible musicians!
Pennsylvania -Earl Wild
Sun Ra. Is there anyone actually better?
He arrived on this planet in Birmingham, Alabama.
Yeah but he’s from outer space so it doesn’t count
Instead of best, I’d suggest using ‘favorite.’
You have missed out Morton Estrin!!!!!
Don't Forget Sam Rotman from Texas!
Great video! From New Zealand
Brad Mehldau, from Florida.
Natalie Hinderas! You left out Ohio's Natalie Hinderas. A gorgeous pianist
Great list. I've been lucky enough to meet several of the pianists you featured... Biss, Fleisher, Bernstein, Jarrett and played for Tureck in a masterclass. Nelita True was a personal friend for 30+ years... I'm so glad you included her. I'm in Michigan and while we have many great pianists here most are from elsewhere. For me, the best pianist from Michigan would have to be someone I know and studied with for a short time and that's Penelope Crawford.
Interesting project, and of course there is classical culture in the US. To name just one example, the music of Mahler may not have survived antisemitism the way it has without the enthusiasm of American music lovers, American Mahler societies etc.
Listening from Italy, where the piano was invented.
This list better be diverse, equitable, and inclusive or I'm going to have a fit!!!!
Me too! We can't have lists based on talent. That would be un-American
Liberace was from Wisconsin!
There’s a note in the video - but his vibe is undeniably Nevada. He was the Las Vegas of pianists for sure.
greetings from Kazakhstan
Greetings. Thanks for watching!
Kentucky has Sylvia Kersenbaum. While she was born in Argentina, she's been in Kentucky for over 40 years. Contemporary of Argerich, studied with the same teacher, was recognized by EMI as having one of the best 100 recordings of the century.
Georgia was wrong too. Surely that's got to be Virsaladze 😊.
Thank you so much for bringing these pianists to the conversation! It’s great to learn about them, I’m excited to check out Kersenbaum’s recordings!
What about Guam?
Good point! Do you have a pianist in mind?
Why in the world wouldn't you edit them alphabetically by state name, so viewers can "find" their state. Seems you mixed the states up to "force" us to watch the whole thing.
exactly!
So? Why shouldn’t you watch the whole thing?
@JerryEboy69 it's boring and it's bs.....well, at least I think so. It had promise but fell apart pretty quickly.
@@frink32 I honestly disagree, but good and bad are personal judgements. It was entertaining and informing to a degree nonetheless
Meh
1:45 scotland!!!
Thanks for tuning in!
Who’s the best pianist from your home state?
Arturo Benedetto Michelangeli or Maurizio Pollini
Vladimir Horowitz
I think there’s a pretty good argument that Lee Luvisi was the greatest pianist from Kentucky. He was born and raised in Louisville and went off to Curtis age 14 to study with Serkin and Horszowski. He joined factulty at Curtis at age 18 and eventually moved back to Louisville to marry his childhood sweetheart. While he is relatively unknown, it was his choice not to perform as much as he had opportunity to do so. One of his many great acomplishments is premiering the Zimbalist concerto (the original score of this concerto died on the plane with William Kapell. When Zimbalist rewrote the concerto, nobody wanted to premier it premier it because of its difficulty). He was Peter Serkin’s first teacher, and had other great students. One of whom, Thomas Hoppe, is an active chamber performer in Germany right now. He has a handful of recordings on his RUclips channel.
ABM of course.
One might add that ABM, in addition to his brilliant pianism, was a champion racing driver for Ferrari, with high finishes in the Molle Miglia and the Targa Florio. Uomo universale.
Can someone tell me who from Illinois got named
I see in your opening thumbnail a map of America with a picture of Liberace representing Nevada. Why him? He is not a very good pianist (see Horowitz saying so in an interview). And why not the great Tiffany Poon to represent New York? I went to a concert of hers recently and was blown away by her power, delicacy and all-round artistry. At the end of the concert she then gave generously of her time, speaking at length to anyone who wanted to meet her. Of course, I am only joking about Liberace being on the map. But I am not joking about Ms. Poon. My teacher comes from both the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky line (through Nikolaev), so I think I have some pedestal of authority from which to speak.
Bernstein (from MA) was more a conductor than a pianist, so I would swap him out for Robert D. Levin.
That’s an absurd take but be contrarian I guess 😂
A take like that would be okay if you acknowledged the George crumb placement, which was a bit more controversial for a similar reason imo
i received lessons from henry kramer for a year and he was one of the worst teachers i ever had. he could not control his temper, often crossing boundaries with huge outburst, lobbing insults and making students uncomfortable. He formally apologized on several occasions but continued to be a horses ass. Being a great pianist (he is) does not make you a great educator and he is the perfect example. His entire studio was uncomfortable, we took our concern to admin and they did nothing (though he left after a year), and when he taught doctoral keyboard lit it had no direction whatsoever, he gave us a playlist of 3 hours of music and just told us to memorize it. This is my own personal experience, and i wouldn't recommend him to anyone.