Absorbing Quote by Donal Henahan

Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to…

— Donal Henahan

[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining…

— Nat Hentoff

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a…

— Anonymous

“She is not a musical girl nor, intrinsically, a joyful girl; but the music of the four Swedes shook something awake inside her, and…

— Sonya Hartnett

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

— Eric Roth

I'm not really a pianist.

— Harold Budd

“Once in a while, she said, the patients put on a theatrical show here, and beneath the stage a magnificent grand piano awaited the…

— Norman Lewis

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

— Cecil Taylor

The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic…

— David Finckel

“I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands…

— Ann Brashares

A Composition on the Piano

— Johann Sebastian Bach

“Her repertoire ran mainly from the late Romantics, Schumann and Mendelssohn, to Poulenc, Ravel, Bartók, and Prokofiev.”

— Haruki Murakami