She has emerged as one of Russia's leading young pianists, and we await her interpretation with great interest.
Quotes about pianists (15 Quotes)
Her hands were broad and strong the true pianist's sledgehammer hands, they had been called. They still moved to her bidding. No matter to what she likened them-turnips, carrots-they were still as nimble as ever. The notes came clear and true.
Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.
The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
And it still produces, too. The Stockton Symphony is top-notch in my book, and there's some great students coming to the institute. Joe Gilman (the American River College music professor who also teaches at the institute) is one of the most talented pianists I've ever heard. That praise doesn't do him justice,
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
Pianists have the Van Cliburn competition and guitarists have a number of contests, as well, but the electric bass is such a young instrument, relatively speaking, that this sort of thing just hasn't happened until now. Victor and I have been talking about this for a couple of years because we go around the world and we bump in to people who just blow us away. They've been practicing for years on this stuff that nobody's ever heard. They might be well-known players or just hiding out in a practice room working on techniques we don't even known about.
Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
Fats Waller's talent outstripped even his girth. He was the most celebrated of all stride pianists, the first jazz musician to record on the organ, the composer of hundreds of songs and a master singer and showman who could find high comedy in the most mundane pop tunes. Some little people have music in them, ... but Fats was all music, and you know how big he was.
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.