Performance by Tim Adrianson from The Waltz Recital - 2018-03-18

• Performer: Tim Adrianson
• Location: Madison, WI
• Experience: 60+
• Composer: Paul Schoenfield
• Piece: Waltz, from "Peccadillos"
• Duration: 248
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• Music Source: Sheet music
• Instrument: Kawai 5.5' Baby Grand
• Recording Method: TASCAM400
• Info: "Waltz" is one of a series of solo piano pieces Schoenfield wrote as part of a solo piano Suite he entitled "Peccadillos", in 1996. In his amusing notes, Schoenfield said he wasn't much interested in writing anything for solo piano; he felt that there was so much written already that the genre was pretty much exhausted. However, the meaning of "peccadillo" -- a composition tainted by bad taste or kitsch, a "guilty pleasure" -- suggested that even HE could compose something that would meet that criterion using forms predisposed to cornball excess -- the Rag, the Boogie, the Shuffle, etc -- and the Waltz. But in point of fact, Schoenfield specifically did NOT attempt to write anything "campy" at all -- every piece is very elegantly composed; thoroughly thought through, totally serious.