An evening pause: From the YouTube webpage:
Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s “The Banjo: Grotesque Fantansie”, composed in 1853, is based on African-American banjo playing from his native New Orleans, specifically using West African banjo techniques and musical structure.
Hat tip Charlie Tutino.
An evening pause: In this case the word “minute” does not refer to time. It is pronounced “my-nute,” and refers to the piece’s small-size, delicacy, and fast-paced shortness.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Thanks to Danae again for this.
I am still looking for Evening Pause suggestions. I found late last year that I could no longer keep it up by myself. If you have something you think would be worth posting, make a comment here and I will email you. Don’t post the link, let me check it out first and then schedule it.
An evening pause: Antonio Breschi again, this time with a piece of his own, from his album At the Edge of the Night. Last week I posted a breathtaking piano performance by Breschi, but unfortunately, I can’t find a video of him playing this particular piece, which I first heard back in the mid-1980s. Nonetheless, the music so beautiful it is really doesn’t need fancy visuals.
An evening pause: How about some amazing piano jamming by Ronald Jenkees.
