An Intimate Portrait of Sidney Foster: Pianist... Mentor

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Charles H. Webb
Preface by Imelda Delgado
Acknowledgements I. Beginnings Early Years Composer The Leventritt After The Leventritt: The Leroy-Foster-Scholz Trio Sidney Foster and Norman Dello Joio Stages Where Sidney Foster Walked Evolution of Programming Orchestral Soloist II. Foster's Pianism Ru
Appendices
Appendix A. In His Own Words: Piano Workshop
Appendix B. The Students Speak
Appendix C. Cadenza for the First Movement of the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto (1941)
Index About The Author

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The great American pianist Sidney Foster—distinguished professor of piano at Indiana University, and the first Leventritt Award winner—is remembered here by a former student for his outstanding ability and generous character. This book includes commentary by numerous students, professionals in their own right; Mr. Foster’s own words; and his own cadenza to the Third Beethoven Concerto for piano. (Other compositions, including a song dedicated to Foster’s wife, a piano duet with narration, and a twenty-minute CD of his playing, excerpted from unedited live performances, are available for purchase separately from the author.)

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In this collection, we learn how [Sidney Foster] played for the often strident Vengerova at the age of ten[.]...Foster composed now-lost works for a 1940s piano-flute-cello ensemble he performed in with Rene Le Roy and Janos Scholz, and was also a pioneer of prison concerts. He deserves celebration as an unusually thoughtful, innovative keyboard artist

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