Piano Impossible
As well as a prolific composer, Edelstein has a "formidable" piano technique that was most recently commented on in his work, Rivers and Mirrors: Part I during his UK tour in 2007. He makes the distinction that he is a composer that plays the piano, not a pianist. Thus he always looks for new timbres and originality in both his playing and his compositions.
- ION (2007)
A new work for piano that will be performed in 2008 with an accompanying film.
- Rivers and Mirrors: Part I (2007)
Edelstein uses his aria, "El Rio", again in his work Rivers and Mirrors: Part I with singer Deborah Claire Procter (Wales) who also made the film to accompany the performance with the dancer Sandra Grinberg of the Trisha Brown Dance Company. This work, in which Edelstein also plays the piano, was premiered in the UK in 2007 to an enthusiastic response from audiences and critics.
Read more about this topic: Oscar Edelstein
Famous quotes containing the words piano and/or impossible:
“When you take a light perspective, it’s easier to step back and relax when your child doesn’t walk until fifteen months, . . . is not interested in playing ball, wants to be a cheerleader, doesn’t want to be a cheerleader, has clothes strewn in the bedroom, has difficulty making friends, hates piano lessons, is awkward and shy, reads books while you are driving through the Grand Canyon, gets caught shoplifting, flunks Spanish, has orange and purple hair, or is lesbian or gay.”
—Charlotte Davis Kasl (20th century)
“I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)