I just posted a new recording I made with Sam of Gene Sheer's Lean Away. It was recorded last week.
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I'm in the process of listing repertoire that I've performed. My accompanying rep is pretty much up to date (I have a few songs from the last few weeks to add to it), but I realized I don't have my solo piano and euphonium rep posted ... that will be an on-going process as I dig through old programs and jury sheets over the next few weeks.
Tonight I "shared the stage" with probably the most famous violinist in the world & his pianist ... as the pianist's page-turner. The program was phenomenal, as was to be expected, and was interjected with an almost-perfect amount of witty humor & puns.
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If you know me, you know that I thoroughly enjoy accompanying people. If you know me, you also know that I enjoy accompanying people on musical theatre pieces more than any other genre.
I've played for countless auditions over the past ten years, for musicals ranging in style from rock and roll to "classic" Broadway, for show choirs, etc. I've had to deal with a number of issues accompanists get used to seeing, from poorly executed auditions, strange cuts and jumps, music so crumpled that it doesn't stay on the stand, etc. Yet the thing that I find the most annoying is music that is poorly published.
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