101. Pro Musicis: The Sharing Of Music The 30th Anniversary Gala at Lincoln Center s Alice Tully Hall features pianistByron janis and ensembles of Pro Musicis artists. http://www.promusicis.org/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=11&m

102. Greg Sandow -- Rachmaninoff 3d Comparisons very articulate pianists to help me defend it Alexander Toradze, and ByronJanis. Click the RA icons below to hear the pianist of your choice, http://www.gregsandow.com/rach3.htm

This all started with a "Consumer Guide" I wrote for the Village Voice, New York's big alternative weekly. I listened to 17 recordings of this suddenly popular concerto, and wrote 17 quick paragraphs, with a grade attached to each one. Poor David Helfgott got an F; Vladimir Horowitz got an A, for his version with Fritz Reiner conducting. (Though a later Horowitz release, a live performance with Eugene Ormandy, only got C+.) You can read this adventure, right here on this site. Much later and by a happy coincidence I was asked to write about the concerto once again, this time for the Los Angeles Times. In fact, I was asked to defend it against critical attacks, which I was happy to do. The more I listened to it, for my Voice consumer guide, the more I loved it. And I enlisted two very articulate pianists to help me defend it Alexander Toradze, and Byron Janis. This piece, too, is available here But you want to hear the music my comparisons of six pianists playing the same Rach 3 excerpt. Click the RA icons below to hear the pianist of your choice, and if you have RealAudio 3.0 or higher installed on your computer you'll hear the excerpts "streaming" down the Internet in real time.

103. Transsexual Pianist Music is a constant theme in transsexual pianist s life studying with ByronJanis and accumulating such a distinguished reputation that he was invited http://www.tgguide.com/soapbox/news/042.htm

Home What's new! Forums Resources ... About Us Updated: Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2000 at 09:48 CST Music is a constant theme in transsexual pianist's life By Wayne Lee Gay Star-Telegram Classical Music Critic NEW YORK The face of the woman sitting across the table at a midtown Manhattan restaurant is strikingly familiar. The mouth, nose and eyes she bears a resemblance to David Buechner, a concert pianist who won the 1984 Bachauer Competition, was a finalist in Moscow in 1986, and emerged as a promising contender at the Cliburn in 1985 and 1989. She could be Buechner's fraternal twin, her features highlighted by makeup and surrounded by a feminine sweep of hair. She is dressed smartly in a blouse and skirt and is wearing heels. But in fact, this is David Buechner. In the summer of 1998, he became Sara Davis Buechner, in what must surely be the first time an active concert pianist underwent a gender change. News of Buechner's change circulated quickly through the classical music community's grapevine; an article in `The New York Times Magazine' in 1998 helped speed the news. In casual conversation, Buechner says that her experience as a transsexual is intertwined with her life as a pianist. And, although she has been a male and a female at different times in her life, she has always been a musician.

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