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Byron Janis: Can't Stop The Music There is no denying that psoriatic arthritis changed byron janis s life. AF When did you know that you wanted to be a concert pianist? http://www.arthritis.org/resources/news/news_byron_janis.asp
Extractions: Log In Create Profile Search Arthritis.org Keyword advanced search Español Questions and Answers Read Arthritis Today ... Dogs and Arthritis There is no denying that psoriatic arthritis changed Byron Janis's life. In addition to the pain and the skin involvement that comes with this type of arthritis, joint deterioration meant Janis had to have surgery that shortened his thumb on his left hand, leaving him unable to reach the next octave on the piano easily. The pain and depression resulting from arthritis left him suicidal. He stopped working for two and a half years. Fifteen years after he announced he would no longer play in public, Byron Janis, at age 71, has rebuilt his life. He spoke to the Arthritis Foundation about how arthritis has changed and enhanced his life, and what he learned about himself in the process. AF: When did you know that you wanted to be a concert pianist?
Byron Jannis And The UW Orchestra @ Meany Theater But virtuoso pianist byron janis, hailed as one of the great ones by the ChicagoTribune, is a wonderfully amiable and charming man, eager to share his http://archives.thedaily.washington.edu/1997/012397/byron112397.html
Extractions: Daily Staff This man was one of the first American musicians allowed to perform in the Soviet Union - at the height of the Cold War - bringing his audience to tears. On his invitational return trip in 1962, he made history by recording with a Russian orchestra. This now-legendary recording won him the coveted Grand Prix du Disque, the international Grammy, as the first American pianist to accomplish such a feat. He played his first Carnegie Hall recital in 1948, 15 years after starting piano lessons at age five, and the rave reviews from his subsequent decades of international tours are seemingly endless. With credentials like these (to name but a few) he could be forgiven a touch of arrogance. But virtuoso pianist Byron Janis, hailed as "one of the great ones" by the Chicago Tribune, is a wonderfully amiable and charming man, eager to share his music and his wealth of knowledge. Now, the legendary Janis is bringing his music and knowledge to UW, presenting Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major with the University Symphony Orchestra next Tuesday.
Extractions: Sequeira Costa Alice Ann Downs Christopher Hepp Robert Koenig ... Special Events and Programs Lied Center . The appointment of the renowned composer and pianist Carl A. Preyer in 1903 marks the beginning of a distinguished roster of musicians who have served as faculty members of the KU Division of Piano. A list of former faculty members since 1934 includes Jane Abbott, Dennis Alexander, Richard Angeletti, Jan Chiapusso, Leon Fleisher, Malcolm Frager, Claude Frank, Thomas Gorton, Gary Graffman, Byron Janis, Stephen Kort, Roy Hamlin Johnson, John Perry, Menachem Pressler, Carole Ross, Angelica Morales von Sauer, Ramon Salvatore, Flora Silini, Martha Stacey, Nelita True, and Robert Ward. All students must apply for acceptance to the University of Kansas and to the School of Fine Arts. Interested persons are referred to the
Classical Net - Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto #3 (pianist/Conductor/Orchestra); Gavrilov/Lazarev/USSR Symphony (not yet on CD) byron janis/Charles Munch/Boston Symphony (RCA Silver Seal 605402-RV) http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/rachman/pc3.html
Extractions: Member of The Rachmaninoff Society Much of the information in this page is based on Scott Colebank's (of Prairie Village of Kansas, USA) Discography of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30 . I'm extremely grateful to Mr. Colebank for his research on the Third Concerto and his permission to allow me to create this page based on his research. Please see below for more information about Mr. Colebank's research on the Third Concerto and how you can contact The Rachmaninoff Society These views are my own and do not represent those of The Rachmaninoff Society Mr. Scott Colebank nor the National University of Singapore . Kindly send your views and comments to Kar-Gee, Tan . This is my first-ever attempt to create an HTML page and I hope to be able to improve on it in terms of contents and presentation. So, your suggestions and constructive criticism will be kindly appreciated. The Third (as it will be known for the rest of this article) was completed as a major composition which Rachmaninoff would "show off" in New York in 1909 during his first concert tour of USA. He wrote the work in the peace of his family's country estate, Ivanovka, and it was completed on 23 September 1909 (Julian Calendar).
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Salon | Sharps And Flats byron janis plays chopin WALTZES, NOCTURNES AND MAZURKAS EMI_ Sure, thenotes are learnable, and most any pianist can wrap his fingers around the http://archive.salon.com/june97/sharps/sharps970603.html
Extractions: WALTZES, NOCTURNES AND MAZURKAS EMI in a time when many lament the passing of a great era of pianists, along comes Byron Janis to remind us of them. Janis is one of yesterday's pianists. He had a brilliant career beginning in the 1950s, and the recordings he made for Mercury in that period are legendary, especially a dynamic performance of Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto with Fritz Reiner. In the mid-'70s, he developed arthritis in his hands, and rather than stop performing, struggled on for a decade before increasingly vicious reviews and creeping immobility convinced him to stop. In retirement Janis served a brief stint as director of the Waterloo Festival and, improbably, wrote a musical theater version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," that played briefly on Broadway. In the summer of 1995, Janis discovered drugs that eased his arthritis, allowing him to go into the studio and make this disc of Chopin mazurkas, nocturnes and waltzes, his first recording in 34 years. The disc confirms Janis' former glory. Mazurkas aren't something you can really teach. Sure, the notes are learnable, and most any pianist can wrap his fingers around the basic meter. But there's something elusive and undefinable about how mazurkas get from their first to their second beats, how that little nudge in the middle of the bar propels the line forward, how a slight hesitation dropped into the accompaniment sets up the melody and lets it exhale. Jazz played from written scores is only an imitation of a feeling; likewise, mazurkas read from the page are plastic flowers at best. The late classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein had it right less concerned about hitting a few wrong notes than he was about expressing his musicality, he had a way of playing mazurkas that made you smell them before they reached your ear.
Salon Magazine | Sharps & Flats By Genre: Classical After a 34year hiatus, pianist byron janis returns to recording and proves thatwhile every pianist plays Chopin, there are still few who express him so http://archive.salon.com/archives/sharps/genre_classical.html
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Mercury Living Presence - Rachmaninov:Piano Artists, byron janis (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Minneapolis outstanding recordings from the American pianist byron janis (born 1928), http://www.deccaclassics.com/music/mercurylivingpresence/releases/rachmaninov_pi
Extractions: Composer: Rachmaninov Works: Piano Concerto No.2* / Piano Concerto No.3 / Prelude in C sharp minor, Op.3 no.2 / Prelude in E flar major, Op.23 no.6 Artists: Byron Janis (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra* / Antal Dorati Duration: Disc Content: SACD 3-Channel Stereo / SACD Stereo / CD Audio Recorded: Recording Format: Three channel DSD recording [Left, Right, Centre] SACD #: 470 6392 6 MSA These celebrated performances of the 2nd and 3rd piano concertos of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) were among several outstanding recordings from the American pianist Byron Janis (born 1928), made for the American audiophile classical label, Mercury Living Presence. Accompanying the Pennsylvanian-born virtuoso was one of MLP's principal conductors, Hungarian-born Antal Dorati (1906-88), directing the London Symphony Orchestra in No.3, recorded in Watford Town Hall in 1961, and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in No.2 , recorded in the Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, in April 1960. The disc is completed by two short Rachmaninoff solo piano works, including the ever-popular C sharp minor Prelude. The performances rapidly attained classic status. As with the great majority of MLP's stereo releases, the actual recordings were made using three microphones - a stereo pair, plus a central microphone. The LP (and subsequent CD) stereo releases mixed the centre channel into the two outer channels. Now - and for the first time SACD's multi-channel capability enables all three discrete channels to be present on the disc, allowing the listener to hear the recordings as they were originally taped (and as they were always intended to be heard, when future technology permitted). Enhancing this new opportunity is the significant additional fidelity gained through direct-to-DSD transfers from the original half-inch analogue masters, via DSD's much greater resolution, frequency response and dynamic range.
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Extractions: Last March, in these pages [this piece was published in the Los Angeles Times ], Times Music Critic Mark Swed took the highbrow view, in effect declaring the concerto too shallow and too flashy, nothing more than a "popular showpiece" with "sure-to-please gushy melodies." Earlier, Bernard Holland, chief classical music critic of the New York Times, rolled his eyes at Rachmaninoff's "weepy tunes," finally dismissing the Third Concerto as very nearly a musical con game "made to order for virtuosos on the make." And, of course, its popularity (which didn't start with Helfgott) only makes things worse. In 1993, Holland complained, fully five of the six pianists in the finals of the Van Cliburn competition all played the thing. He shuddered: "What a horrifying evening it was." We might ask, of course, whether five renditions of any concerto on a single night wouldn't have been equally hard to take. But there's a larger point to make.
Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article Rachmaninoff did not consider himself a great pianist, and thought his own (Click link for more info and facts about byron janis) byron janis, http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/s/se/sergei_rachmaninoff.htm
Extractions: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff , also Sergey Rachmaninov or Serge Rakhmaninov (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia n (Someone who composes music as a profession) composer (A person who plays the piano) pianist , and (The person who leads a musical group) conductor . He was a late representative of the (A soulful or amorous idealist) Romantic movement in music, and had a considerable reputation as a pianist, often appearing as a soloist in his own works. Born in Semyonovo, near (A city in northwestern Russia on the Volkhov River; Russia's oldest city and an important trading center in the Middle Ages) Novgorod into a wealthy, strongly military family of (The Turkic language spoken by the Tatar people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains) Tatar background, Rachmaninoff had his first
University Of Nebraska-Lincoln - Scarlets Web - 10/31/02 Giacomo Oliva, age 7, poses with renowned pianist byron janis in this 1957 picture.Oliva was a student at the Chatham Square Music School when he and his http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v12n27/v12n27features.html
Extractions: October 31, 2002 Oliva's career follows path from New Jersey to Nebraska Giacomo Oliva began learning to play piano by age 6 and performed at a variety of levels before entering university administration. He is dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at UNL. Photo by Richard Wright. Dean Oliva keeps a picture of his mother with one of her young piano students on his desk. Oliva said his mother had a special talent for teaching children. Photo by Richard Wright. Giacomo Oliva, age 7, poses with renowned pianist Byron Janis in this 1957 picture. Oliva was a student at the Chatham Square Music School when he and his class attended a taping of the Tonight Show with Jack Paar that featured Janis. Oliva, now dean of UNL's Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, was the youngest student accepted into the Chatham Square Music School, when he was 6 years old. Photo courtesy of Giacomo Oliva.
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Pianist: Definition And Much More From Answers.com A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age Zoran G Jancic; Jenö Jandó; byron janis William Kapell; Julius Katchen http://www.answers.com/topic/pianist
Extractions: Wikipedia pianist A pianist is a person who plays the piano A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller ensemble , or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Liszt Johannes Brahms ... Robert Schumann , and Sergei Rachmaninoff were all virtuoso pianists. Most pianists specialize in certain composer(s)'s music or a certain period to some extent.
