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In 1986, a piano bar called Dallas Alley (aka "Alley Cats") opened in Dallas, Texas as an attempt to copy the piano bar style of New Orleans. [1] Players at this club started redefining the style of dueling pianos by playing more contemporary rock and roll music, coupled with humorous bits that involved lyric substitutions and audience ...
The first Howl at the Moon location, owned by Terry Cunningham and Jimmy Bernstein, [4] opened in the newly opened Convington waterfront of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1990, and was variously described as "a new Orleans-style bistro with dueling pianos, dancing and peanuts sent down chutes for customers", [5] and "featuring piano singalongs to the music of the '50s, '60s, and '70s in a setting ...
A piano bar (also known as a piano lounge) consists of a piano or electronic keyboard played by a professional musician as a central part of an establishment that also serves alcoholic drinks. Piano bars can be located in a cocktail lounge , bar , hotel lobby, office building lobby, restaurant, or on a cruise ship .
The Irvine Barclay Theatre, often referred to as The Barclay, is a 755-seat performing arts venue in Irvine, California, located on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. Jointly owned by the city and university, it opened in 1990 and has hosted various musicians, bands, plays, and guest speakers.
Pacific Symphony was founded in 1979 by Keith Clark, who was a former student-assistant conductor of Roger Wagner at the Los Angeles Master Chorale, [2] and the principal guest conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.
This is a list of notable performers who appeared as piano duos in classical music. Most of these pianists performed works for piano four-hands (two pianists at one piano; also known as piano duet) as well as works for two pianos, often with orchestras or chamber ensembles. Some of these teams focussed exclusively or predominantly on this ...
The Piano & a Microphone Tour was the final concert tour by American recording artist Prince. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In a December 2015 interview in anticipation of the tour, he said that "I'm doing it to challenge myself, I won't know what songs I'm going to do when I go on stage.
Siskind began participating in piano competitions while at Eastman, and was a three-time finalist for the Kathleen T. and Philip B. Phillips, M.D. Jazz Piano Competition. He was also a finalist for the American Piano Awards Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz in 2007 and 2011, but ultimately lost to Dan Tepfer [9] and Aaron Diehl, [10] respectively.