Emerson's Piano Concerto performed in Oregon

[Tom Ace]

Jeffrey Biegel was the soloist in recent performances
of Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto #1 in Oregon.

A review (mostly about the rest of the program, and other
matters; the reviewer deemed Emerson's piece a novelty)
from a local newspaper is available online at:

http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110925/NEWS/109250325

Tom Ace

[cc...@naxosusa.com]

A new recording of Keith Emerson's composition "Piano Concerto No 1" has been released by Naxos Records. Preview and Purchase on Amazon: HERE

This album brings together four works for piano and orchestra by composers best known from the fields of jazz, popular song and progressive rock. Neil Sedaka’s Manhattan Intermezzo explores the New York of today and yesterday with its melting pot of nationalities. Keith Emerson is best known as a founding member of Emerson Lake & Palmer. His remarkably inventive semi-autobiographical Piano Concerto No. 1 fuses his classical training with jazz. Duke Ellington’s sublime New World a-Comin’ is a visualisation of improved conditions for black people in America, while the rarely heard original version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue represents the quintessential style of New York City in the roaring twenties. All performed by pianist Jeffrey Biegel and the Brown University Orchestra.