Better world Quote by Stuart Isacoff

“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…

— Stuart Isacoff

“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…

— Stuart Isacoff

“Those admirers created so strong a ballast against possible Kremlin tampering with the jury vote that it was said years later by critic Tamara…

— Stuart Isacoff

“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

“Oscar is our Liszt and Bill Evans is our Chopin,”

— Stuart Isacoff

“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

“Peterson revealed that he had decided the only way to get attention was “to frighten the hell out of everybody pianistically.”

— Stuart Isacoff

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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