George Winston, 73, celebrated pianist

[Michael Rhodes]

George Winston, the celebrated solo pianist who sold more than 15 million albums over the course of his career, died Sunday, June 4 2023. He was 73.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/george-winston-quiet-giant-solo-220948264.html

Winston’s death was confirmed on his website. He had been battling cancer for 10 years, undergoing a bone marrow transplant in 2013.

[A Friend]

In article <1dd9d439-0137-4398...@googlegroups.com>,

Very sorry to hear this. I have all of his Windham Hill CDs, including
several Christmas albums.

[radioacti...@gmail.com]

I don't know much about the late Winston's career, but I am curious: did he himself describe his genre as "New Age", or was that a only a term critics used regarding his recordings and that Winston himself resisted?

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida

[Diner]

On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 9:47:48 PM UTC-4, radioacti...@gmail.com wrote:
> I don't know much about the late Winston's career, but I am curious: did he himself describe his genre as "New Age", or was that a only a term critics used regarding his recordings and that Winston himself resisted?
>
> BRYAN STYBLE/Florida

The Yahoo obit answers that question in the third paragraph.

[J.D. Baldwin]

In the previous article, Michael Rhodes <mig73alle...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> George Winston, the celebrated solo pianist who sold more than 15

> million a= lbums over the course of his career, died Sunday, June 4
> 2023. He was 73.

Hadn't thought about him in years, but this is a fond memory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2CE5BZVk40

It's his rendition of variations on Pachelbel's famous Canon in D. I
don't love every variation (he loses me near the end), and I'm the
first to admit that this piece gets played out of proportion to its
inherent merit, but it does have a lot of inherent merit. And this is
a simple, straightforward and heartfelt interpretation.
--
_+_ From the catapult of |If anyone objects to any statement I make, I am
_|70|___:)=}- J.D. Baldwin |quite prepared not only to retract it, but also
\ / bal...@panix.com|to deny under oath that I ever made it.-T. Lehrer
***~~~~----------------------------------------------------------------------