Quote by Stuart Isacoff Download Open image ““Oscar is our Liszt and Bill Evans is our Chopin,”” — Stuart Isacoff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition — Bedrich Smetana Copy Share Image
“On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize.” — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
“Some artists are criticised, some artists are admired, but some artists are loved and they are the one who are remembered.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“You are lyricist, me a composer - you and I make a complete song.” — Alexandra Monir Copy Share Image
My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
“I have simply worshipped pianists - two at a time, sometimes, Harry tells me. I don't know what it is about them. Perhaps it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Recent breakthroughs in the field of neuro-science have shown that playing the piano is good for your brain. Dr. Gottfried Schlaug of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School spoke in 2009 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on the brain’s “plasticity”—its capacity to change—and announced that even nine- to eleven-year-old musicians show more brain activity… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share
“To the young among his admirers, he was the fresh face of an emerging, better world; to the old, a balm for the pain… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“Though his rivals at the competition were well trained, there was something different about Van’s art. For many in the audience it represented the face of freedom. Performing under the auspices of a repressive regime and before an intimidating jury of some of the world’s greatest musicians, he seemed to answer to no authority other than the shifting tides of… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share
“Those admirers created so strong a ballast against possible Kremlin tampering with the jury vote that it was said years later by critic Tamara Grum-Grzhimailo that the seeds of perestroika were first planted in this moment,” — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share
“As Victorian-era prudishness set in, some upstanding citizens also took to putting coverlets over the instrument’s legs out of an exaggerated sense of modesty.” — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“The handful of leading craftsmen turning out pianos during that time produced only around thirty to fifty of them per annum. But by 1798,… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“Peterson revealed that he had decided the only way to get attention was “to frighten the hell out of everybody pianistically.” — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“They include conceptual artist and “environmental music” composer Annea Lockwood, who created a work entitled Piano Burning. Debuted in London in 1968, it requires… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“Alkan even wrote a piece for four feet, called Bombardo-Carillon, in which the player’s legs are likely to get entangled during performance. (When Swiss-American… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“The Soviet performers felt that every note had to be strictly controlled. They had excellent training, but the result lacked freshness and poetry.” That… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“The work had its own history of struggle. Originally intended as a showpiece for pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, it was dismissed by that renowned pianist… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“The Moscow audience had of course heard it many times before, but Van’s interpretation was extraordinary. The work’s thundering octaves and delicate filigree were… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
