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1. Pianist Byron Janis at age 84
(Entertainment/Movies)

... on a high shelf. It contained the two waltzes, written one year earlier. With a name like Byron Janis, one might not suspect that he is among the many famous Jewish pianists – Rubinstein, Horowitz, Kapell, ...

2. Hasidic cantor Yitzhak Meir Helfgot and violinist Itzhak Perlman produce a musical tour de force
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and accompanists, be they pianists or violinists. The renditions of the Helfgot-Perlman duo, however on the Eternal Echoes album, achieve a state of spiritual and aesthetic splendor unprecedented not ...

3. Who were the three greatest pianists?
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Not long ago BBC Music magazine polled 100 contemporary pianists asking them to name the three greatest pianists – pianists they had actually heard. No Liszt, ...

4. N.J. piano prodigy David Belkin to play Carnegie Hall
(Entertainment/Movies)

... and piano playing? “I just give it my best — and try to be the best.” His favorite pianists? Again, a surprise. The first name he mentions is Billy Joel. Then come Lang Lang and Yefgeny Kissin. His ...

5. Itzhak Perlman: The virtuoso who calls himself a fiddler
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  W.B.: Do violinists and pianists have different personalities? Is that why they chose those instruments? Perlman: No, I have a feeling that when people play different instruments, when they were young ...

6. Celebrating 200 years of Frederic Chopin
(Entertainment/Movies)

... others as associate producer for "Chopin 200", a free, five-day event in New York's Winter Garden. Inside the giant marble mall in the World Financial Center, more than 150 pianists are scheduled ...

7. Asians are the best pianists at Van Cliburn competition
(Entertainment/Movies)

... A South Korean woman took the silver medal in the prestigious competition that ended Sunday night [June 7]. Every four years, the top young pianists in the world converge on Fort Worth, Texas — home ...