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Concert by the Sea is a live album by pianist Erroll Garner that was released by Columbia in 1955. [1] It sold over a million dollars' worth of retail copies by 1958, [ 2 ] qualifying for gold record status by the definition of that time but has never been acknowledged as such by the RIAA .
"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.
Sep. 26—The New Mexico Philharmonic will celebrate Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th birthday with a concert of his First Symphony and his Piano Concerto No. 2 on Saturday, Sept. 30, at Popejoy Hall ...
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 ...
Rachmaninoff in front of a giant Redwood tree, California, 1919 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. [1] 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.
In Rachmaninoff's case this was the Grieg Piano Concerto, [7] which was a favourite work of his and one with which he had been familiar from Siloti practicing it at the Rachmaninoff household during the spring and summer of 1890 for future concerts. [8] Rachmaninoff adapted the entire musical structure of the outer movements to the Grieg ...