Dave Brubeck - mid 20th Century
from The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking of Their Lives and Music, page 103:
I know you came from a musical family. Is that what got you involved with the piano?
Oh, yes. My mother was a pianist and a piano teacher. When I was born, she was practicing all the time, as she was with her first two sons. Howard [a composer] is four years older than I, and Harry [a music teacher] is eleven years older. She believed in prenatal influence, so she practiced through all her pregnancies. When we were born, we were all put near the piano to listen to her practicing. I heard Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, and Bach from infancy.
cite as
Len Lyons, The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking of Their Lives and Music (New York, ), p. 103. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431080802771 accessed: 30 October, 2024
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written by Chopin, Franz Liszt, Bach, Mozart |
Experience Information
Date/Time | mid 20th Century |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by Gill on Fri, 08 May 2015 11:26:43 +0100
Approved on Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:18:27 +0100