'The bastard child' poem by Jim Morrison (the Doors)

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The masked performance art piece inspired by The bastard child' poem by Jim Morrison (the Doors). Brass Parks Theatre Company(Chris Brassington and James Henry Parker) filmed at the Edindurgh Fringe Festival in 2008.A non-music 'impromptu' version from Mr Mojo, Mum and Me

Chopin- Impromptu in A Flat Major, Op.29 - Agi Jambor, piano

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Madame Agi Jambor, in a very elegant performance of Chopin's Impromptu in A Flat Major, Op.29.5th Prize winner, 3rd International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1937 Emil Gilels won 4th prize winner in the same competition). Agi Jambor learned piano with Paul Braun at the Fodor Music School in Budapest. Between 1926 and 1931, she studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Edwin Fischer.She began her stage career at an early age, performing in many European countries.During World War II or shortly after it, Jambor emigrated to the United States, where she taught piano at Bryn Mawr College in PennsylvaniaAgi was brought back to Baltimore to start a new life by one of her admirers also a Bach pianist and Harpsichordist, the psychiatrist Joseph Stephens.He found her living under stressful conditions, with 30 cats in the outskirts of Philadelphia.And yet, Agi a Hungarian, had been a famous pianist in Europe, who immigrated to the US after the war.She had played Bach, and other composers with Mengelberg, Ormandy, and many other famous conductors. She refused to play under the baton of Alfred Cortot after the war, because she considered him as being anti-Semitic.She turned down von Dohnanyi, who offered to become her teacher at the Budapest Conservatory.On her 16th birthday, Albert Einstein came to her house and brought his violin. How did he play? I asked her once.She smiled and said politely: 'Not too well. The harder the piece, the worse it got'.After the passing of her first husband, she met an fell in love with the famous actor Claude Rains, and became Mrs. Rains.The marriage did not last long, because Claude was a severe alcoholic.When she arrived back in Baltimore (she had taught at the Peabody before going to Philadelphia) Joe rented for her an apartment in Bolton Hill, very close to his own home.She brought with her her old dilapidated Steinway, and her marimba. (She was also a marimba virtuoso, and played Bach Concertos on it.Her piano was in bad shape, and she was frail, so I suggested to Joe to get her an electronic piano, with a weighted touch. It would be even and easier to play.By miracle, she started playing, and in no time she started sounding like the great Agi Jambor of the 50s.Joe and I also bought electronic pianos, that she loved playing, coming to my house or Joe's on Sunday, and for 8 or so years we had a great pianist in our midst.Meanwhile Juan Bastos a superb painter helped taking care of her, and from a neglected old lonely lady, she blossomed back into the princess of the keyboard, that she really was.Dedicated to another superb Bach pianist Angela Hewitt, and to the memory of the great Glenn Gould.

Backyard Soiree 1 - Andrew R. Brown

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A live coding performance by Andrew Brown at the first backyard Soiree headphone concert, held in Brisbane, Australia in August 2008. A full version is available here http://impromptu.moso.com.au/gallery.html

Backyard Soiree 1 - Andrew Sorensen

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A live coding performance by Andrew Sorensen at the first backyard Soiree headphone concert, held in Brisbane, Australia in August 2008. A full version is available here http://impromptu.moso.com.au/gallery.html

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