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"Full Moon and Empty Arms" is a 1945 popular song by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman, based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. [1]The best-known recording of the song was made by Frank Sinatra in 1945 [2] and reached No. 17 in the Billboard charts.
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) [1] [2] [3] was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard.
Erroll Garner was inspired to write "Misty" on a flight from San Francisco to Chicago which passed through a thunderstorm: as the plane descended into O'Hare, Garner looked through the window to see a rainbow glowing through a haze and was moved to begin composing "Misty" on the spot, striking imaginary piano keys on his knees as he hummed the notes he imagined (causing his neighboring ...
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff [a] [b] (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor.Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.
Rachmaninoff's compositions cover a variety of musical forms and genres. Born in Novgorod , Russia in 1873, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Zverev , Alexander Siloti , Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky , and while there, composed some of his most famous works, including the first piano concerto (Op. 1) and the Prelude in C ...
L.A. Phil's Rachmaninoff Festival finds a curious, though unintended, relevance thanks to its surprise connections with Philip Glass. Commentary: The curious case of Rachmaninoff and his ...
"Yesterdays" is a 1933 song about nostalgia [1] composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Otto Harbach. They wrote the song for Roberta, a musical based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller.
Ready Take One is a compilation album of previously unreleased Erroll Garner recordings. The album was released in 2016 by Legacy.The songs were pulled from sessions in 1967, 1969, and 1971. [1]