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The American pianist Frank Glazer, now 91 years old, is heard in this highly entertaining collection
of short piano compositions- repertoire once standard fare of the day for piano students. These pieces,
though fashionable during the latter half of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, are
not often performed in concert anymore, despite their great appeal. Glazer writes that “Dohnányi’s 1916
transcription of Delibe’s Waltz was advertised as ‘being performed everywhere with the greatest success by
Rachmaninoff, Igna Friedmann, Backhaus, Lhevinne, Godowsky, Eisenberger, Youra Güller, etc.’ And as a
student in Junior High School, I performed it in our assembly programs....when, in 1932, I arrived in
Berlin to study with Artur Schnabel, I soon became aware that he would not be listening to this genre
of repertoire, so it lay dormant, unused until many years later...” Frank Glazer’s warmly embracing
performances bring back an era long past, and the accompanying booklet includes period photographs, and
Ruth Glazer’s reminiscences of her husband’s long career.
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