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Playing the Piano

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

  • Vladimir Horowitz
  • Elton John
  • Aaron Copland
  • Duke Ellington
  • Van Cliburn
  • George Gershwin Self-Portrait
  • Leon Fleisher in performance with the Syracuse Symphony
  • Ray Charles
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Fatha Hines
  • Keith Jarrett
  • Lux Lewis
  • Marc Blitzstein
  • Duke Ellington
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Elliott Carter
  • 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
  • Ray Charles
  • Fats Waller
  • Vladimir Horowitz
  • Fats Domino
  • Vladimir Horowitz
  • Bud Powell
  • Aaron Copland
  • Art Tatum

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