I guess we won't have a player piano version of the Cowell Piano
Concerto, which I saw last evening at the San Francisco Symphony:
Henry Cowell's Piano Concerto, which Tilson Thomas enjoys calling
a "swashbuckling" work in the Romantic tradition. The soloist's part,
however, is worthy of the Ramones or jazz avant-gardist Cecil Taylor:
a torrent of crashes and clusters, smears and "great splodges of
notes," played with fist and forearm.
Marc Kaufman
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