Ken Keuffel:
>Billy Joel's classical music for piano is on CD. The pianist is Richard
>Joo. Has anybody heard the music and wish to comment on it?
I heard one piece on the US tv program Inside the Actor's Studio. It was
pleasant, but structurally lacking. It was an attempt to write Chopin and
Brahms without the cohesion of either. The piano writing, however, was
(not surprisingly) idiomatic -- no small feat.
Steve Schwartz