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Born #OTD Samuel Barber 's Piano Sonata is the one piece I can’t live without. Or be played well enough.

Its enormous emotional range? Grandeur, tragedy, humor.

“There's no reason music should be difficult to understand.”

Listen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91TNohE7ym4

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Look at the Prokofiev Museum at his birthplace in Sontsvika, Ukraine. That's before Putin liberated the town in 12/24.

It's been seriously damage, and now it's been reported serially looted on 9/26/25.

Russian liberation? Just equals cultural devastation.

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The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces. Not a single cell is by chance or intuition.

I don't ask for my music to be interpreted. Only to be played.

Maurice Ravel born #OTD.

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Vast, a new company, has developed private space stations ensuring continuous human presence in low Earth orbit. They hope they'll become stepping stones for people to live in space.

Humanity's footprint into the final frontier?

Maybe. Stay tuned.

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To me living and music are all the same thing. I play what I live.

I keep finding out more about the directions in which my music will go.

The piano is like an orchestra. I just want to write and play my instrument as I feel.

McCoy Tyner, may he RIP #OTD.

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Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg founded Steinway and Sons in NYC #OTD 1853.

30yrs later Liszt wrote him 'The new Steinway grand is a glorious masterpiece in power, sonority, singing quality, and perfect harmonic effects'.

It is still the best in the world.

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" I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil."

Listen to the piano piece Villa-Lobos composed for the 13 Choros - songs usually sung by bands of serenading musicians.

https://youtu.be/KuNar12m0R8

Born #OTD, Villa-Lobos remembered by his words and music.

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Born #OTD the Egyptian-American composer Halim El- Dabh was a pioneer of electronic music who wrote 4 ballet scores for Martha Graham.

I like how he drew on Ancient Egyptian poetry, and like a jazz pianist created 'blue notes'.

https://youtu.be/QyW7bsBx2JE

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Celebrate Margaret Bond's birthday with me #OTD listening to her masterpiece "Troubled Water".

It's a spiritual piece conveying the power, and the emotion, of history.

An amazing woman. An amazing talent. An inspiration for us all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozJXgZjiZfU

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Trump isn’t just co-opting the Kennedy Center. The ‘Kennedy Center Honors’ will be called “The Trump Kennedy Center Honors’.

Viewers for last year’s show? Down over 20%. A decline that's ‘evidence of far-left bias”?

Stay tuned. After 47yrs. How pathetic.

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Happy Birthday to composer Bernard Rands #OTD!

He's 92 with over 100 published works and recordings that earned him a Grammy and the Pulitzer Prize .

He and his wife Augusta Read Thomas composed this amazing piece for me. Listen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUGRX8ozX-Y

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Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

Frederic Chopin born #OTD.

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Led by Jonathan Heyward, the Baltimore Sym celebrates 110yrs next season - ‘Illuminated Through Sound”.

Visual storytelling, immersive presentations, projected imagery and live-to-film performances,landmark artists, premieres are all planned.

Stay tuned!

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One of my favorite works to perform is Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin for solo piano.

But after his orchestrated version premiered #OTD it's his most popular piece.

I can't decide which I like more. Click the link.

Can you ?

https://joelfanmusic.com/maurice-ravel-2/

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When Beethoven premiered his 8th Sym #OTD it was one of his favorites. Audiences weren’t impressed.

They expected another groundbreaker. But got his shortest. A light hearted, melding of the past and future.

Maybe a new listening for his least popular?

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When I sing I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

With a purpose that you believe, there's no end to the things you can accomplish.

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country. I was, and am, American.

Marian Anderson born #OTD.

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Every week spent rocket stages, defunct satellites and other junk falls back to Earth's atmosphere.

The risk is rising.

Chinese and Space X space crafts re-entered over Europe, closing airspace.

What if a shard hits an airplane?

Stay tuned.

#thursday #goodvibes #tech

Missy Mazzoli says her new opera will premiere Oct at The Met. The 1st main-stage opera by a woman they’ve commissioned and will premier.


"Lincoln in the Bardo" reflects on the nation’s founding ideals during our 250th anniversary.

Bravo! Don't miss it.

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Frank Sinatra gave his last performance #OTD to an audience of 1200 lucky guests on the closing night of his charity golf tournament in Palm Desert, CA.

He sold 150mil records, a star in film, TV and awarded our highest honors.

And did it all his way.

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Even the MET is not immune to the effects of Trump's budget cuts.

There’ll be 17 shows next year, the least since ’66. Just 5 new productions. Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ is the signature work.

Austerity in the arts. Everywhere.

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Music doesn't need to be explained. There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

See every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize.

Always walk in the light. Go find it. Love the light.

Roberta Flack, RIP #OTD.

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This is the most expensive piano in the world. No golden frame. No diamond-inlaid keys. It auctioned for $3.4 million.

It’s the Casablanca piano, as Ingrid Bergman uttered ‘Play it, Sam, Play “As Time Goes By.”

An icon. A cultural symbol. Surprised? I am.

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Born #OTD, these were Handel's thoughts after writing The Messiah in just 24days.

Whether I was in my body or out as I wrote I know not. I think I saw all heaven before me. I thought I saw the face of God.

I shudder to think God would do that through me.

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