Well, we got the Rex part right

[zola]

There is an article in BBC Music magazine's news section about the British Composer Awards and board member Gabriel Jackson is fulsome in his quoted praise for the pianola player on his piece Airplane Cantata. I doubt however that he credited Rex Harrison as the magazine seems to think. Pianola afficiandos will be aware of the work of Rex Lawson.

[Bryn]

There is an article in BBC Music magazine's news section about the British Composer Awards and board member Gabriel Jackson is fulsome in his quoted praise for the pianola player on his piece Airplane Cantata. I doubt however that he credited Rex Harrison as the magazine seems to think. Pianola afficiandos will be aware of the work of Rex Lawson.

Oh dear! Only last night did I get round to downloading my 'reward' of mp3s of last November's Nancarrow at 100 fest in Berkeley, California. Rex features in one of the concerts. tonight, having burnt them to CD-R, I plan to give them a spin.

[Bryn]

Oh dear! Only last night did I get round to downloading my 'reward' of mp3s of last November's Nancarrow at 100 fest in Berkeley, California. Rex features in one of the concerts. tonight, having burnt them to CD-R, I plan to give them a spin.

Wow! These performances by Rex of works by Nancarrow, Grainger, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky et al are really something. In the 3rd concert he plays the whole of Stravinsky's Piano Roll version of The Rite of Spring. Quite a tour de force.

[amateur51]

Wow! These performances by Rex of works by Nancarrow, Grainger, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky et al are really something. In the 3rd concert he plays the whole of Stravinsky's Piano Roll version of The Rite of Spring. Quite a tour de force.

WOW!!

[pianolist]

WOW!!

Thank you all for your kind and various comments, which I have only just seen. I note, Mr 51, that your profile photograph (not the avatar) is taken from the Ladykillers, which film features, amongst other unforgettable elements, both a player piano and a Mr Lawson. What impeccable taste!

[amateur51]

Thank you all for your kind and various comments, which I have only just seen. I note, Mr 51, that your profile photograph (not the avatar) is taken from the Ladykillers, which film features, amongst other unforgettable elements, both a player piano and a Mr Lawson. What impeccable taste!

Cheers pianolist. That photograph seemed to perplex people who didn't know the film, hence the change to the Blessed Margaret

[kernelbogey]

Could someone explain briefly what it is that Rex does that can be described as a 'performance'? I've heard this term used in relation to him before. I'm in ignorance of the technology of these machines, but when I've heard on TTN piano roll recordings of (say) Rachmaninov, there's no reference to the intervention of a 'performer' reproducing it. So what is fixed by the original 'recording', and what is amenable to the intervention of a live 'performer' directing the reproduction? (Or is this confused by differing technologies?)

Many thanks, kb

[french frank]

Could someone explain briefly what it is that Rex does that can be described as a 'performance'?

This from Rex's website.

Mmmm. I meant to link to 'What is a pianolist'.

[Serial_Apologist]

Could someone explain briefly what it is that Rex does that can be described as a 'performance'?

Keeps himself trim on a treadmill?

[Serial_Apologist]

'What is a pianolist'.

It had me thinking it was a list of pianos issued by a piano merchant!

[french frank]

Ooh, S_A - you might have made it clear that I was quoting from the menu on Rex's website, not asking the question myself