Disklavier

Hey Piano Bench, good show!  The newspaper article was fascinating, and I
applaud the Phoenix Symphony for there willingness to innovate with
technology and for sharing this priceless musical performance archive with
the public.

 

I'm really curious about the details behind the performance.  Can you share
the story with us?  For example, they mentioned that you'd "provided
software" for the occasion.  Was this software over and above the standard
DKV operating software?   They said the score was "time marked and prepared
to allow a conductor to keep time with the piano".  What was that about?
And foremost, did you use the solo piano version of the performance that's
commercially available, or was is there a separate piano roll in existence
with just the piano from the Piano/Orchestra arrangement of the piece.  If
you used the solo piano recording, did you edit out the portions where he
was playing the orchestra part (for example, the opening)?   

 

It sounds like a really fun endeavor in any case.

 

Jerry Dutcher

 

-----Original Message-----
From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Don Shifris
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 12:11 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [disklavier] Yamaha Disklavier at the Phoenix Symphony

 

Last night, the Phoenix Symphony used a piano roll conversion of 
Gershwin playing Rhapsody in Blue in conjunction with the orchestra.

The following site has a nice article on the performance and the technology.

It was quite a beautiful performance. They even announced that 
George Gershwin was going to perform, had a spotlight following him 
as he entered the stage, the 1st violinist pretended to shake his 
hand as did the conductor.

http://phoenixsymph <http://phoenixsymphony.blogspot.com/> ony.blogspot.com/