Performance by Tim Adrianson from Rare Gems Themed Recital - 2020-10-15

• Performer: Tim Adrianson
• Location: Madison, WI
• Experience: 65+ years
• Composer: Leo Smit
• Piece: Rondel (for a young girl)
• Duration: 222
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• Music Source: Sheet Music (Piano & Keyboard magazine)
• Instrument: Kawai Baby Grand 5.5'.
• Recording Method: TASCAM 40 320 MB
• Info: Leo Smit was an American pianist of Russian background, making his mark as a spokesman for the new American music of Copland, Barber, Diamond, Persichetti, et al, in the 1940s and 50s. I personally still have his cassette "An American Crazyquilt", an album devoted to various genres of 20th century American piano music. He was also a composer, and this piece "Rondel (for a Young Girl)" he shared as part of an interview with Piano & Keyboard magazine in 1999 (he died later that same year). It has a n American Western flavor that for me transcends the cornball and the trite -- it is thoroughly charming in its slightly awkward simplicity.