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Playing the Piano

A celebration of piano players, famous and not so famous, as they practice their artistry.

  • Vladimir Horowitz
  • Aretha: Mysterious Lady of Sorrows
  • Duet #3
  • Elton John
  • The Spinet
  • Aaron Copland
  • Quiet Hour
  • The Parmly Sisters
  • Day's End
  • At the Piano
  • Renata Borgatti, Au Piano
  • Lavender Piano
  • Duke Ellington
  • Le Piano
  • Improvisation
  • Van Cliburn
  • Day Dreams
  • George Gershwin Self-Portrait
  • Leon Fleisher in performance with the Syracuse Symphony
  • Ray Charles
  • Unidentified figure (boxer) singing at piano
  • Beverly Plays the Blues
  • Marian Anderson and Leonard Bernstein
  • Fatha Hines
  • Keith Jarrett
  • Woman at the Piano
  • Cynthia Hoover
  • Lux Lewis
  • Marc Blitzstein
  • Duke Ellington
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Elliott Carter
  • James Merrill
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  • Nat "King" Cole
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Nat King Cole
  • Sammy Cahn (with Jimmy Van Heusen)
  • Liberace
  • Willie "the Lion" Smith
  • Oscar Hammerstein I
  • Irving Berlin
  • Mary Lou Williams
  • Woman in Red Dress at Piano
  • Ray Charles
  • Vladimir Horowitz
  • Fats Domino
  • Piano Player

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