Emailing: 03SEAR

[Robin Olson]

    Oops I need to make a correction to myself here.Kimballs 
extravaganza was for the Olympics,not for the Super Bowl.   Robin Olson



----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Olson <DCrpt@comcast.net>
Date: Sunday, August 3, 2003 10:32 am
Subject: Re: Emailing: 03SEAR

>     A correction to Debra Simon's quote about the most pianos in 
> one 
> place since the 1939 worlds fair.She must have meant in New York.I 
> think the Smithsonian Institiute and PBS had more than 21 pianos 
> in 
> their Piano Grand performance in honor of Piano 300.Also Kimball 
> sponsored a multiple piano event for the super bowl in 1985.
>     
>    Just wanted to set things straight.   Robin Olson RPT  
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Ross <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca>
> Date: Sunday, August 3, 2003 7:56 am
> Subject: Emailing: 03SEAR
> 
> > 21 Rare Pianos Sought for Feat of Grand Intent
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> >      August 3, 2003
> >      21 Rare Pianos Sought for Feat of Grand Intent
> >      By JAMES BARRON
> > 
> >           
> >      ujatri K. Reisinger, who sells pianos for a living, has 
> been 
> > working the phone, trying to borrow a few. Actually, more than a 
> > few: 21 grands, for a total of 1,848 keys. And all built by a 
> > relatively obscure Italian manufacturer that makes only 100 
> > instruments a year.
> > 
> >      Mr. Reisinger, an owner of Klavierhaus, a piano shop on 
> West 
> > 58th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, is looking for 
> > the pianos that will star in a concert during the opening week 
> of 
> > the 15th season of the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center.
> > 
> >      The pianos he is looking for are not Steinways, not Mason & 
> > Hamlins, not Baldwins, but Faziolis. So far, he said, he is two-
> > thirds of the the way toward meeting his goal.
> > 
> >      Faziolis are shiny, expensive instruments made according to 
> > the designs of Paolo Fazioli, a concert pianist who went into 
> > engineering before he discovered his life's work: trying to 
> > reinvent the modern piano. 
> > 
> >      The most talked-about of his company's six models is the 
> > F308, at least one of which will be among the 21 pianos Mr. 
> > Reisinger is rounding up. At 10 feet 2 inches and $140,000, it 
> is 
> > 14 1/4 inches longer and almost $50,000 more expensive than a 
> > Steinway concert grand.
> > 
> >      It has an extra pedal, for very, very soft playing. Whether 
> > it is needed for one piece that will be played on Sept. 25 - the 
> > world premiere of "Threnodia for 21," a piece by Daniele 
> Lombardi, 
> > an avant-garde Italian composer, and dedicated to the victims of 
> > the Sept. 11 attacks - remains to be seen. 
> > 
> >      Also on the program is the first performance in this 
> country 
> > of Mr. Lombardi's Sinfonia Nos. 1 and 2 for 21 Pianos.
> > 
> >      In some passages of "Threnodia," Mr. Reisinger said, the 
> > pianists are to stand up, reach into the pianos and strum the 
> > strings. In other passages, they are to pound the keyboards. It 
> > will be something to see - and that, Mr. Reisinger said, is just 
> > what Mr. Lombardi had in mind.
> > 
> >      "He created a work that's important three-dimensionally, 
> > with the movement of the conductor and the movement of the 
> > artists," Mr. Reisinger said. "It is a sculpture in the making, 
> > right on the spot."
> > 
> >      Before there can be sculpture, or music, there must be 21 
> > pianos. Mr. Reisinger, who sells Faziolis along with Steinways 
> and 
> > other pianos that he and his technicians have rebuilt, decided 
> to 
> > round up 21 Faziolis - something he has wanted to do since 
> meeting 
> > Mr. Lombardi in 1997 - and approached the World Financial Center 
> > about the holding the event. 
> > 
> >      "When I told Paolo, he said it's impossible," Mr. Reisinger 
> > said. "He's never seen 21 Faziolis together in his life." But he 
> > will, assuming Mr. Reisinger succeeds: Mr. Fazioli has promised 
> > not only to attend the concert, but also to autograph each piano 
> > that is used.
> > 
> >      Mr. Reisinger has been calling other Fazioli dealers in 
> this 
> > country and in Europe. As of last week, he said that he had 
> > commitments for three Faziolis from Boston, four from Virginia 
> and 
> > four from Utah, maybe five.
> > 
> >      Rick Baldassin, a Fazioli dealer in North Salt Lake, said 
> > the number depended on whether his wife, Cindy, would let him 
> send 
> > the 7-foot-6 Fazioli in their living room along with four from 
> > their showroom.
> > 
> >      "I'm inclined to believe that she's O.K. with it," Mr. 
> > Baldassin said. "You can imagine. It's one thing to send the 
> > children from the store. It's another thing when you're sending 
> > the one from your house, but why not?"
> > 
> >      Debra Simon, the executive director of the World Financial 
> > Center's arts and events program, said the 21 pianos would be 
> the 
> > largest collection of pianos played at the same time in one 
> place 
> > since the 1939 World's Fair. And those pianos were uprights, not 
> > grands.
> >      Mr. Lombardi knows what it is like to have more than one 
> > Fazioli on hand. Mr. Reisinger said Mr. Lombardi once asked Mr. 
> > Fazioli to send him two. Mr. Fazioli did so, Mr. Reisinger said, 
> > but only after asking this question: "Can't you compose 
> something 
> > for 3 or 4 pianos instead of 21?"
> > 
> > 
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