https://www.musicofalife.com/home daily 1.0 2023-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/7f8cc08c-51d3-49f5-bbc8-a65342cde579/Amazon_Music_logo.svg.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/14a1a4e6-8355-48d5-8ed1-efe95270e9a9/YouTube_Logo_%282013-2017%29.svg.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/54f4e6d2-67b2-40fd-87c5-8b57cb457240/Spotify_Logo_CMYK_Green.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/1697214483901-WLNH40PVIF2YL4CE8SMB/IMG_0051.jpg Home At my first keyboard with my big brother Denny, during my first birthday party, 1963 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/020138d2-debe-4d00-a2e9-22b21d590375/D2AD7FFA-2AE5-449A-845B-FD113735E1D6_1_105_c.jpeg Home With my great-grandmother Granny who first instilled a love of music, 1966. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/551f9368-f3cc-4e37-9684-1fa5738bf2fb/E789B76E-83D9-4B33-8EA7-F82CEFD79251_1_105_c.jpeg Home Again, with my great-grandmother Granny at her Estey spinet - one of my favorite photos, 1968. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/1697214636760-JBNWHRKW08LEJQEHOZDV/7790CE46-63E6-42C2-9502-34FB30164FEE_1_201_a.jpg Home All was right with the world, though my B key above middle C needed attention, 1967. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/5ba5ea46-1e6f-44fd-b63e-da76126dc0e2/2FFA3AD9-B305-41C7-AEF3-07E47B936C5D_1_105_c.jpeg Home My first piano recital - about 1974. Terrified but well-dressed for the times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/610bf17f-dc32-4e00-8b50-a05e31a5755c/Greg+-+piano+-+cigar1.jpeg Home A turn at the piano, Gershwin-style, The Grand Hotel, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/63beda64-4ede-4aa0-8e09-0952b24848a0/IMG_5220.jpeg Home Playing Gershwin for the great composer’s one-time friend and legendary harmonica (“mouth organ”) virtuoso Larry Adler, at home in Baltimore, 1998. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/2afb1028-0d72-42bc-b6c6-7ab086ac4088/E760BED6-279A-4C2F-9CAB-7FB9C7FBF147_1_105_c.jpeg Home Teaching Lang Lang Gershwin at my piano (Baltimore) 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/71323c02-9149-4685-b000-d86410d886d2/IMG_7549.jpeg Home Catherine and I celebrating Yuri Temirkanov’s inaugural gala as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, with legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/82570133-23a6-4d55-8a6d-32d188ff201d/GWT+in+St.+Pete+-+Rachmaninoff+Piano.jpg Home Backstage at the Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia at a special Steinway grand piano once played by Sergei Rachmaninoff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/a43f492c-9922-4acc-9616-35989dcf133f/6A5D9233-3633-47C4-8E0E-145A2A293FC2.jpeg Home With my fine son, William, a prodigious pianist himself, 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/f8fe1a1a-7bb4-4828-bfb3-4dfe43cc7eb2/Piano+Grand.jpeg Home Again at the keyboard of the Grand Hotel, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/9fe0687c-77b0-4e70-b17d-d2c101245bc5/D64BFDF8-298A-4A52-9B5D-FD5094C95201_1_105_c.jpeg Home Showing-off for Lang Lang during the shooting of a commercial in Prague for Aegon’s operations in China, when he agreed to be our “brand ambassador” during my corporate life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/e3bca9e4-ae8d-4dca-97de-55fa28235d7e/Playing+with+Lukas+Jussen.jpeg Home At the keyboard with Dutch concert pianist Lucas Jussen of “The Jussen Brothers” fame - The Hague, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/dd4c350a-b477-4934-ac18-823b6e244edb/F222D04C-5E07-4770-993D-0D9930C62341_1_201_a.jpeg Home Enjoying the privilege of playing Franz Liszt’s Chickering piano in his apartment in Budapest, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/12469766-ae54-42a6-b90a-f942c209fc0b/Paris+346.jpeg Home Trying out the traveling keyboard of Franz Liszt in his former apartment, Budapest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/78fdc21c-9c40-4d20-ac3f-791c547c008c/C28EDD51-313B-4E77-B0BD-7BF9F31F718C_1_105_c.jpeg Home At Marvin Hamlisch’s piano and with the 3 Oscars he was awarded in1975 for “The Way We Were” and “The Sting.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/e3a02b9a-b38b-4524-8707-17b092d28216/87C47C27-60C6-4768-A9C7-5094A91B22F1_1_105_c.jpeg Home Daring to play Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C# minor for the noted concert pianist Denis Matsuev (far right) and Maestro Yuri Temirkanov (seated left) and friends at home in Baltimore, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/534ce035-eda4-4e32-9fca-117abd914d4b/Screenshot%25202023-10-13%2520at%25209.31.29%2520PM.jpeg Home Andre Watts was not only an extraordinary pianist, but a gentleman of uncommon grace, elegance and kindness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/150205f7-392b-4ec3-8d1d-1766c65537fa/391DCE7E-FF7D-4658-A136-20FFF9279826_1_105_c.jpeg Home In the former monastery accommodations of Chopin, admiring his left-behind Pleyel piano on which he is alleged to have written or completed his preludes, Valldemossa, Majorca, Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/1992accf-d280-4cd4-ab8e-9f00d5ccc1a1/20EED044-6344-4E67-9EA2-31EFE80D3743_1_105_c.jpeg Home With William & the legendary Leon Fleisher at home, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/57685605-9834-4ae2-9dec-d1fd2ebac743/88C17CEC-A279-4DA3-B0C5-69C509D2FF1E_4_5005_c.jpeg Home The gift of Yuri Temirkanov’s friendship and musical influence is among my life’s prized possessions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/562f6321-889a-4b3d-817b-648d59313aa7/70FF93B1-5A66-4E88-B47B-A868FDB1C3FF_1_105_c.jpeg Home With the “Piano Man” Billy Joel - during my time on Capitol Hill, 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/d3136832-68f1-4bca-8f97-7a97d6e4191a/42FED578-26F5-46AA-8AF9-670D5D5476F6_1_105_c.jpeg Home The last time together with my great friend Marvin Hamlisch who inspired me with his incredible gift for creating music, his incomparable wit and cherished friendship. The Hague, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/75a6802c-e2f3-4f00-95a0-749220b13800/IMG_4168.jpeg Home Enjoying a dinner in Paris with the extraordinary Evgeny Kissin, whom I’ve had the privilege to know and count as a friend for 25 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/ffa0928e-6b2a-4e81-ab35-fa5010a9cbb1/Lang+Lang+-+2001+-+8.jpeg Home Catherine and I congratulating Lang Lang following his Carnegie Hall debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/fcc8c034-25b5-4ab8-8707-45bc1a85818f/1988824A-1D3F-428F-93F1-0B539E3C4DE2_1_105_c.jpeg Home With French pianist Hélène Grimaud, San Francisco, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/b5f7f455-d565-4ff3-8c02-9ca5399a0e66/0C3082A7-C769-4E64-9AFA-D0C5C90BB41F_1_105_c.jpeg Home Enjoying a reunion with the always remarkable and truly great human being, Yo-Yo Ma https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/a8b4eb75-c6c1-4653-88e8-47681081b47d/CEF60000-B70E-4139-B23C-972F6597CD92_1_105_c.jpeg Home With the Dutch jazz great, Peter Beets, my close friend with whom I share a love of Chopin and who interprets the piano’s greatest composer as no other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/60c922c3-2111-4006-917f-f15bf182ae99/2BE8F58B-81EB-42CB-B60A-49EB85437221_1_105_c.jpeg Home Introducing French pianist and musician extraordinaire Jean-Yves Thibaudet to the hometown team of the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65202328cc7a1c03b1a61772/0305496e-cc81-4e38-873c-913cccc2bbb1/Paris+076.jpeg Home Making my first recording at the Anton Philipszall, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2012.