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Lara Downes > Reviews touch. The Florida Herald-Tribune 2/99 At the recital of pianist LaraDownes the attendance of the pub-lic was plentiful. The soloist http://www.laradownes.com/reviews.html
Extractions: At the recital of pianist Lara Downes the attendance of the pub-lic was plentiful. The soloist should be lauded for her choice of repertoire, a synthesis of the piano music of the twentieth cen-tury... Beginning with Gershwin's Three Preludes, she brought to this idiom an approach that was at once cerebral and full of "swing", transmitting great lyricism and great capac-i-ties of sonority... In the piano version of La Valse by Ravel, Downes expertly tamed the piano, which seemed an unbridled horse in this wild piece. Her interpretation made the piano version as ef-fective as the orchestral score... The euphoria of the public was evident.
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Extractions: Total Time: Approx. 64 min Pianist Lara Downes takes us on a journey through the heart and soul of the USA with American Ballads , as she interprets 20th century works by Barber, Copland, Ives, Thompson and features the world premiere recording of jazz composer/saxophonist Benny Golson's On Gossamer Wings .This collection of solo pieces reflects the influence of popular music on our master composers and captures the essence of the American spirit, brilliantly performed by one of today's remarkable talents.
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Extractions: What Critics Say About American Ballads Special mention to the 10:24 minute world premiere of Golsons composition, On Gossamer Wings, featuring the gifted pianist, Lara Downes on solo piano On Gossamer Wings is a classic of its kind, and it will find many followers who enjoy good music blessed with much feeling, sensitivity, style, in-depth meanings, and mood
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Extractions: With her debut recording, pianist Lara Downes beckons you to the dance floor as she interprets works by 19th and 20th century masters, from Carl Maria Von Weber to Samuel Barber. This collection of solo pieces captures the spirit of the ballroom through the ages, from the sublime to the grotesque, all remarkably and passionately performed by one of today's brightest talents.
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Extractions: NEWS RELEASE POSTCARDS RECORDS RELEASES LARA DOWNES' INVITATION TO THE DANCE Postcards Records is pleased to announce the release of classical pianist Lara Downes' debut CD, Invitation to the Dance , a collection of solo classical pieces by 19th and 20th century Masters such as Liszt, Weber, Ravel, Chopin and Barber. All the pieces on the CD relate to popular dances of their time; it is a fascinating recap of where we've been on the dance floor over the last 200 years. Invitation to the Dance is the first classical release on the Postcards label since the Arkadia Entertainment Group acquired it in 1999. Under the leadership of Arkadia founder Bob Karcy, the acclaimed electro-acoustic avant-garde jazz label expanded its horizons to include classical and world music. Lara.Downes is the first artist to premiere a recording and the first classical artist as well. "Not many people have what Lara has," says Karcy. "She's an incredible virtuoso, she's funny, sophisticated, intelligent and she looks great too. She could be the next big thing in the classical world." Lara Downes has been hailed as one of the most promising young pianist today, and her choice of repertoire runs from the traditional to the avant-garde. Her recent projects include a Copeland Centennial recital, a newly discovered piano concerto by Clara Schumann, and a four-part recital series entitled This American Century. "I have been intrigued by the interdependence between music and dance" Lara says, "Dance, after all, is music in motion, the physical embodiment of sound." It seems only natural then that she would want to take on a project that tied together the two things she loves most.
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Extractions: With her debut recording, pianist Lara Downes beckons you to the dance floor as she interprets works by 19th and 20th century masters, from Carl Maria Von Weber to Samuel Barber. This collection of solo pieces captures the spirit of the ballroom through the ages, from the sublime to the grotesque, all remarkably and passionately performed by one of today's brightest talents Lara Downes has been hailed as one of the most promising young pianist today, and her choice of repertoire runs from the traditional to the avant-garde. Her recent projects include a Copeland Centennial recital, a newly discovered piano concerto by Clara Schumann, and a four-part recital series entitled This American Century. "I have been intrigued by the interdependence between music and dance" Lara says, "Dance, after all, is music in motion, the physical embodiment of sound." It seems only natural then that she would want to take on a project that tied together the two things she loves most. Franz Liszt arranged virtuostic piano versions of popular songs from popular operas, and the
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Extractions: Like running into a relative of somebody you know well, this probing set betrays a gesture here, a mannerism there, a certain chime to a laugh or intensity of glance that is at once familiar and new. At times it's like listening to a Keith Jarrett or Bill Evans trio, but with those pianists' vocabularies eerily rewritten. For two decades, Marilyn Crispell has been one of the most highly regarded pianists at the sharp end of contemporary jazz. This Baltimore-raised musician went to the New England Conservatory to study classical music, and then became diverted by the work of Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane. She eventually became keyboard partner for the fearsome multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Braxton, with whom she could share enthusiasms from Coltrane to Hildegard of Bingen.... This set has Crispell investigating a more lyrical and less awesomely pianistic music. Four of the pieces were improvised from the off, but sound like compositions, such is their conviction and clarity of phrasing. The ruminative opening passages, initially draped around Gary Peacock's plummy, luxurious bass sound, reflect the atmosphere of the whole set. Paul Motian, one of the closest things to a sound-painter in the jazz drumming, rustles around Crispell, scattering offbeat snare sounds and brief shimmers of cymbals, occasionally hinting at distantly martial tattoos that cajole and fade.
Lara Downes Young American pianist lara downes was born in San Francisco, where she beganher piano studies at age five at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. http://www.costaricamusic.com/ing/Interpretes/downes.html
Extractions: LARA DOWNES Young American pianist Lara Downes was born in San Francisco, where she began her piano studies at age five at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She subsequently studied with Adolph Baller and Reah Sadowsky, and pursued her advanced studies in Europe at the Hochschule for Music in Vienna with Hans Graf and in the Concert Class of Rudolf Buchbinder at the Music Academy in Basel. She has also studied with John Perry in Los Angeles and Lilian Kallir and Jerome Lowenthal in New York. She has participated in summer master classes at the Tanglewood Institute, the Salzburg Mozarteum, and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. Since making her London debut in 1988 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Ms. Downes has performed frequently throughout Europe, appearing as soloist with the Vienna Chamber orchestra and in recital in concert series and festivals in France, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland. She has recorded for Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt. Ms. Downes made her New York debut at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall in March of 1995. Her recent appearances have included recitals at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, the French Library in Boston, the French Embassy in Washington D.C., and the La Gesse Festival in France. She has been heard on WFMT Chicago, and has recorded for the Helicon label. Her upcoming activities include performances of the Clara and Robert Schumann concertos with the Hartford Symphony, solo and chamber recitals throughout the United States, and tours of South America, India and South East Asia.
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Extractions: The Media have been generous with Paul. The Jazz Review praised "Paul Tobey is one of the finest jazz pianists to come out of Canada! “ All About Jazz rates Paul as an “outstanding pianist”. The media have dubbed Paul Tobey a virtuoso, inventive, self-assured, polished, a masterfully musical player and a fascinating composer.” More History
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Extractions: I think you may be referring to: Elly Ney (b. Dusseldorf, Sept. 27, 1882; d. Tuteing, Mar. 31, 1968). She is listed in my page of "Yesterday's Concert Pianists" but without any links, so I haven't found a page of biographical material already on the web to link her to. She is listed in all of the important music biographical dictionaries: Baker, Groves, Riemann, Thompson, etc., and there was an article about her published in FANFARE, Vol. 5, 1982.
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