O'Connor Piano, MIDI Keyboard And Organ Studio vladimir horowitz Destined to become one of the worlds greatest pianists, vladimirhorowitz was born in 1903 in Kiev, Russia. While most young children http://www.oconnormusic.org/composers-h.htm
Extractions: Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu ("Adam the Hunchback') lived from around 1237 to around 1286. He was a poet and composer, born in Arras, France. He was court poet and musician to Robert II of Artois, and followed him to Naples in 1283. He was the originator of French comic opera, with Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion , and the partly autobiographical composition Jeu de la fuellée (Play of the Greensward). He also wrote poems in mediaeval verse forms.
Prokofiev.org - Toccata In D Minor Op.11 Artist(s) vladimir horowitz (piano) Catalog Num BMG/RCA Victor 60377 Conductor vladimir horowitz Orchestra/Ensemble London Philharmonic Orchestra http://www.prokofiev.org/catalog/workessential.cfm?WorkID=158
Arthur Rubinstein - The Artist Benno Moiseiwitsch and vladimir horowitz were major pianists by any standards).The public was looking for a new Romantic hero, and Rubinstein met all http://www.arims.org.il/artist.htm
Extractions: Above all pianists - indeed, above virtually any musician of the last fifty years - Arthur Rubinstein represented in both his life and his music-making a unique joie de vivre . That alone would set him apart in this serious musical age, where there is a high degree of skill but very little charm or poetry. Arthur Rubinstein was able to communicate joy in his playing. He loved the piano, he loved the music he played, and he was always able to charm audiences all over the world with one of the most extraordinary personalities that this century has seen. Of course that charm was buttressed by the mind of a superb musician, and by the fingers of a spectacular technician. Rubinstein coaxed a big, sonorous, golden tone from the instrument, and his fingers were in total command of anything in his repertoire. And that, paradoxically, was true even when he dropped notes or smudged passages here and there. For it was clear that a sloppy episode resulted not from lack of native ability but rather from sheer scorn of pedanticism. He was daring, he took chances, and if a few notes suffered en route that was unimportant. He was a natural, born to play the piano, and when he was on the concert stage one felt as though the piano itself was welded to his body. Musician and instrument were one. innigkeit of others, or the egoism of still others. Rubinstein played every piece in a natural, healthy, extroverted manner, with sweep and a big line, with color and fire. As he played, everything sounded natural and logical.
