Re: GG: Wagner/Mitch/F&T

[St-Laurent Gilles <gsl@nlo.nlc-bnc.ca>]

Tape 1756 on the Audio page at the National Library of Canada's GG page 
(www.gould.nlc-bnc.ca/ra/real.htm), has GG improvising Brahms in "the style 
of Mitch Miller".

Gilles St-Laurent
Music Division
National Library of Canada
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>From: owner-f_minor
>To: Junichi Miyazawa
>Cc: f_minor mailing list
>Subject: Re: GG: Wagner/Mitch/F&T
>Date: July 16, 1998 01:30
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>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:
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>> GG refering to Ferrante & Teicher:
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>> (After confessing that GG did over-dubbing recording
>> for the Meistersiner Prelude)
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>> >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:
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>> 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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