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2021-10-14 05:31:00
Post Bach: Preludes, Fugues, and Bach-Inspired New Music (CD review)
Sam Post: Tango Toccata; Bach: Prelude in C Major; Fugue in C Major; Prelude in C Minor; Fugue in C Minor (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1); Post: Efficiency Remix; Lighthouse; Bach: Prelude in C Sharp Minor; Fugue in C Sharp Minor; Prelude in D Major; Fugue in D Major (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1); Post: Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Irena Orlov in Memoriam; Fugue in C Sharp Minor, Irena Orlov in Memoriam. Sam Post, piano. Sunnyside SC1622.By Karl W. NehringA talented young pianist sits at the keyboard, diligently practicing the music of J.S. Bach. From his back lawn, there is a strange noise, and then an unexpected sight. A blue British phone booth mysteriously appears, from which soon emerges a dandily dressed gentleman whose ears perk up as he hears the sound of piano music coming through the open window. The unexpected visitor walks over to the pianist’s back door and […]
2021-10-14 05:31:00
Post Bach: Preludes, Fugues, and Bach-Inspired New Music (CD review)
Sam Post: Tango Toccata; Bach: Prelude in C Major; Fugue in C Major; Prelude in C Minor; Fugue in C Minor (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1); Post: Efficiency Remix; Lighthouse; Bach: Prelude in C Sharp Minor; Fugue in C Sharp Minor; Prelude in D Major; Fugue in D Major (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1); Post: Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Irena Orlov in Memoriam; Fugue in C Sharp Minor, Irena Orlov in Memoriam. Sam Post, piano. Sunnyside SC1622.By Karl W. NehringA talented young pianist sits at the keyboard, diligently practicing the music of J.S. Bach. From his back lawn, there is a strange noise, and then an unexpected sight. A blue British phone booth mysteriously appears, from which soon emerges a dandily dressed gentleman whose ears perk up as he hears the sound of piano music coming through the open window. The unexpected visitor walks over to the pianist’s back door and […]
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2020-11-09 19:47:18
Toronto mourns revered music professor
Marietta Orlov, who came to Canada as a Romanian refugee in 1972 and became one of its foremost piano teachers, has died at 88. From Ilya Poletaev’s obit: With her husband, the world-renowned cellist Vladimir Orloff (1928-2019), she toured extensively across Eastern Europe. In 1964 they defected to Vienna, and have been tried and condemned […]
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2018-05-09 11:01:28
Death of an iconic piano teacher, 76
The influential teacher Irena Orlov died yesterday after heart surgery. A professor at the Levine School of Music at Washington DC she was highly regarded by such rising artists as Dmitri Masleev, Nikolai Lugansky and Lucas Debargue. Her life story covers two generations of Russian dissidence. Her father, Abram Isaakovich Rozhansky, was chief defender in a […]
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