Steve Schwartz responds to Karl Miller:

>> ...
>> In short...and I hate to say it, but is Nanes the last in the long line
>> of composer/pianists?
>
>Not at all.  Lowell Liebermann, for one, is a piano virtuoso (although
>I don't always care for the music he writes).  There's also a young
>Russian perhaps-genius whose name escapes me (I confuse her with Tatiana
>Rankovich).  She's not only a piano firebrand and a very interesting
>composer, but she's apparently a fine Russian poet.  And who could forget,
>once heard, Aubrey Fitch?  Rzewski also comes to mind.

My god, how could I forget Rzewski. A tremendous pianist and IMHO great
composer.

For my money The People United is one of the greatest works for solo
piano of the second half of the 20th century.

Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>