Category: Piano Music

I had to stop posting excerpts from my Piano Practice Room Radio to my YouTube channel because the algo kept snapping back claiming I was stealing copyrighted content. Apparently my playing sounded too much like Van Cliburn,...

All the audio at Practice Piano Radio is of me playing, mostly at home practicing alone, but some concert recordings are included as well.Source: Piano Practice Room Radio

Cleaning up the desktop, all kinds of rubble sitting in front of me all this time. Not a masterful performance but it’s not a piece that benefits from mastery. Or is it? I don’t even know.

I remember watching “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” on TV in the 1970s, not thinking much of it (even as a kid I never cared much for the Charlie Brown movies).   Then this came across. Schroeder was among the great...

I think these are from 2004. The “Duetto” is among my favorite of Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words”. To me it creates the illusion that 2 people are playing at the same piano. Mendelssohn - Song...

A long time ago, from a music conservatory far far away, I took out a classified ad in a national music magazine. It was a small ad, 5- or 6-lines deep and probably ¾” wide. The ad invited composers to send me their piano music, which I might play at a “well known conservatory.” I […]

This recording, from 6 years ago, has me playing a piece I can no longer identify. Nice little tune, though. Innocuous.

I know a lot of the Johnny Carson star-maker canon, but never heard of this before. Pretty cool, though you have to ask what other talented pianists in the audience were ready to answer the call.

It’s groovy! It’s smoovy! Check out this five-minute musical slideshow of six dozen of my new fractals set to Philip Glass’ ‘Metamorphosis’ as played by Mark Thomas. This is the first time I’ve used OSX app Photos (formerly iPhoto) to make a slideshow and it was surprisingly intuitive, easy and fun.

I took some of today’s piano improvisations and mixed them up with sounds recorded streetside in 2010. Birds chirping, cars passing by.  

I’ve never really gotten my money’s worth out of SoundCloud, where I mostly post found sounds and musical acts heard through payphones. I posted this set of improvs from earlier today. Just messing around with a few ideas and some sound gear that I’m trying to learn how to use. There is some static here […]

I wrote this piano piece 9 years ago. I started crafting a video around it, using photos of mine from New York City cemeteries and blighted areas. I should get back on that project. I want to write more about piano music and the continuous decision-making processes involved in reverse-engineering the works of other composers.

For several days last week it seemed all I did for 5 or 6 hours each day was play the Liszt arrangement of Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade” (“Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel”). It is an addictive little piece which I find to be more theatrically dramatic in the piano arrangement than in its voice-with-piano original. […]