Musicians of the Week of Oct. 19th

	Pianists of the Week

          
Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943, Philadelphia) is an American jazz pianist. Known for his lyrical style of playing, Barron has appeared on hundreds of recordings as both leader and sideman and is consequently considered one of the most important and influential mainstream jazz pianists since the bebop era.^[1][2][3]

Interview with the Scene.

Do you remember the first time you played the piano? When did it hit you that this could be your life's work?

I was very young, four or five years old. We had an old upright, and I had two brothers and two sisters -- all older -- and everybody played piano, so there was always a piano in the house. I was blessed with a fairly good ear, so I would hear something on the radio, or hear something my brothers and sisters were playing and I could go to the piano and figure it out. When I was in my early teens, it dawned on me. I really liked playing jazz, and it actually never occurred to me to do anything else.

                     

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.

Born: December 1770, Bonn, Germany

Died: March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria

Influenced by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, George Frideric Handel, Friedrich Schiller

Parents: Maria Magdalena Keverich, Johann van Beethoven

  * Below is the    Listen to Fur Elise online.   intro to one of Beethoven's most famous songs. 
Can you recognize these notes ?   Listen to the whole song online

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