Re: GG: Wagner/Mitch/F&T

[Richard Vallis <rvpiano@spec.net>]

Ferrante and Teicher made the "pop" charts in the 60's.  Your
characterization of them is correct.  They were into Liberace-type
grandiose two-piano arrangements of  songs, done in a style that passed
for the popular idea of what "classical music" was all about.  As I
remember, they actually were not bad  pianists though.

Junichi Miyazawa wrote:

> GG refering to Ferrante & Teicher:
>
> (After confessing that GG did over-dubbing recording
> for the Meistersiner Prelude)
>
> >KH: . . . But did your three minutes of *primo-secondo*
> >over-dubbing persuade you that the "Meistersinger"
> >*Vorspiel* can work *in toto* on the piano?
> >
> >GG: That, sir, is not for me to say.  But given the
> >nightmare of endeavoring to sync to my own rubato,
> >it proved conclusively that Ferrante and Teicher, I'm not.
>
> I learned also last night that
> Ferrante & Teicher (b. 1921 & 1924) are pianists as a duo.
> They did two things: experimantal performance with the
> so-called (John-Cage-like) prepared pianos; and
> standard easy listening music.
> I understand they were famous and popular in the 1960's,
> weren't they?
>
> Q2.  Anyway, please check my paraphrase:
>
> The dubbing session of Meistersinger was
> a nightmare.  It was very difficult to
> synchronize the secondo piano to the primo
> on the rubato parts.
> So, in conclusion, I found I could not be
> Ferrante & Teicher even with the help of
> recording technology.
>
> (Does GG refer to F & T as a virtuosic and romantic
> piano duo of easy listening?)
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Junichi
>
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