* 1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.

However its first performance, poorly staged with Joplin accompanying on the piano, was " disastrous " and it was never to be fully performed again in Joplin's lifetime.

The success of this performance led V. Bessel and Co. to announce the publication of the piano vocal score of Mussorgsky's opera, issued in January 1874.

Accompanying instruments vary widely, from only one to a full orchestra ; for rehearsals a piano or organ accompaniment is often used, even if a different instrumentation is planned for performance, or if the choir is rehearsing unaccompanied music.

Bron also gave the premiere performance of The Yellow Cake Revue ( 1980 ), a series of pieces for voice and piano written by Peter Maxwell Davies in protest against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands.

A Steinway Society is a local, non-profit society that aims at developing the musical knowledge and talents of disadvantaged youth ; providing an opportunity for young piano students to work towards a higher level ; encouraging performance experience, audition preparation, and scholarship assistance for further study in classical and jazz piano ; and providing talented students with a loaned piano and tuition for piano lessons through the establishment of Steinway Piano Galleries.

Henry Z. Steinway received the award for " his devotion to preserving and promoting quality craftsmanship and performance ; as an arts patron and advocate for music and music education ; and for continuing the fine tradition of the Steinway piano as an international symbol of American ingenuity and cultural excellence.

In the live performance of " Hang On to A Dream " with the Nice, recorded for the post-breakup album Elegy, he performed a cadenza of sorts hitting the piano strings with a small hammer, followed by a lengthy wind-down, returning to the song in which he alternated keyboard arpeggios with blows directly on the bass strings.

The band made their public debut in a one-off performance in April 1973, and featured Robert Smith ( piano ), Michael " Mick " Dempsey ( guitar ), Laurence " Lol " Tolhurst ( percussion ), Marc Ceccagno ( lead guitar ) and Alan Hill ( bass guitar ).

Although performance practice was previously confined to early music from the Baroque era, since the 1990s, research in performance practice has examined other historical eras, such as how early Classical era piano concerti were performed, how the early history of recording affected the use of vibrato in classical music, or which instruments were used in Klezmer music.

Reasons included the growing relative popularity of the accordion, the mass production of other instruments such as the piano, increasingly chromatic and less tonal forms of music such as blues and jazz, and the overall decline of amateur musical performance due to radio and the phonograph.

The young Schnabel once heard Brahms play in a performance of his first piano quartet ; for all the missed notes, said Schnabel, it " was in the true grand manner.

Wilson returned to regular stage appearances with the band, alternating between piano and bass and, under Landy's advice, made a solo appearance on Saturday Night Live in November 1976 ; producer Lorne Michaels stipulated Wilson's exclusive performance, much to the chagrin of the other Beach Boys.

In 2004, a college student named Rob Kovacs gave the first solo performance of the piece where he played both piano parts at the same time on two different pianos.

* Prepared piano demonstration and performance by Richard Bunger

The performance features Jon Evans on bass and Matt Chamberlain on drums, while Amos plays the piano.

Although the orchestration was not yet complete, act 2 was presented in a private performance in 1870 just prior to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War with Saint-Saëns playing the orchestral parts, which were largely improvised, on the piano.

That same year acclaimed mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot, for whom Saint-Saëns wrote the role of Dalila, organized and performed in a private performance of act 2 at a friend's home in Croissy, with the composer at the piano.

This culminated in April 1861 with a piano performance in Stockholm, attended by the Swedish royal family.

On this trip to New York, he met Cowell and heard a performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano ( also influenced by Cowell's aesthetics ), which would later lead to Nancarrow modestly experimenting with prepared piano in his Study No. 30.

As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings, he wrote on the one hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on the other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble, Arkansas, where no one had ever seen a piano ; ;

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.

'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.

Newcomers are Ernie Kemm on piano, Wes Robbins, bass and trumpet, and Jack Kelly on drums.

He skips around from jazz, to blues to boogie -- accompanying himself on piano and frequently pulling the customers in on the act.

The evening program was opened by the Jazz Three, a Newport group consisting of Steve Budieshein on bass, Jack Warner, drums, and Don Cook, piano.

This did not set Gershwin back, as his real intent abroad was to complete a new work based on Paris and perhaps a second rhapsody for piano and orchestra.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

His small instrumental output includes two piano concerti, a concerto for organ written in 1773, a concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra ( 1774 ), and a set of twenty-six variations on La follia di Spagna ( 1815 ).

The scene where Obadiah Stane, the archrival of ' Tony ' Stark, the wealthy industrialist turned Ironman, tells Tony that he is being ousted from his company by the board, Obadiah plays the opening few bars of the Salieri concerto on a piano in Stark's suite.

The violinist and composer Louis Spohr wrote: " In forte passages the poor deaf man pounded on the keys until the strings jangled and in piano he played so softly that whole groups of notes were omitted.

Béla displayed notable musical talent very early in life: according to his mother, he could distinguish between different dance rhythms that she played on the piano before he learned to speak in complete sentences ( Gillies 1990, 6 ).

By the age of four, he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano ; his mother began formally teaching him the next year.

The classic example is Franz Liszt's famous Hungarian Rhapsodies for piano, which he based on popular art songs performed by Romani bands of the time.

The code was entered on a keyboard which had just five piano type keys, operated with two fingers of the left hand and three fingers of the right hand.

Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.

This process, which could take months, would start with Chaplin describing to the composer ( s ) exactly what he wanted and singing or playing a tune he had come up with on the piano.

The importance of London in the Classical period is often overlooked, but it served as the home to the Broadwood's factory for piano manufacturing and as the base for composers who, while less notable than the " Vienna School ", had a decisive influence on what came later.

Drummer John French had now joined the group and it would later ( notably on Trout Mask Replica ) be his patience that was required to transcribe Van Vliet's creative ideas ( often expressed by whistling or banging on the piano ) into musical form for the other group members.

Franz Schubert's " Trout " piano quintet features the less common instrumentation of piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass.

** Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 ( popularly called the Trout Quintet ; for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass ; 1819 )

As regards the latter, the Trout Quintet has a unique sonority among other chamber works for piano and strings, due mainly to the piano part, which for substantial sections of the piece concentrates on the highest register of the instrument, with both hands playing the same melodic line an octave apart.

* Schubert: piano quintet in A major, D. 667 ( 1819 ), popularly known as the ' Trout Quintet ', based on his Lied " Die Forelle " (" the trout ").

During the Trout Mask Replica sessions, French transcribed the musical ideas Beefheart played for him on piano for the rest of the band.

Franz Schubert composed his lively lied " Die Forelle " ( German for " The Trout ") in the summer of 1817 for solo voice and piano.

The Trout Quartet consisted of Stuart Kanin on violin, Anatoly Rosinsky on violin, Roland Kato on viola, and Armen Guzelimian on piano.