Readers of this blog in the New York vicinity will (I hope) be interested to know that I’m producing a take-no-prisoners concert event – “Schubert Uncorked” – this Friday night at The Stone, John Zorn’s club on the Lower East Side. There’s a single, one-hour set at 8 pm. Tickets are $10 at the door. The performers are David Taylor and Bill Wolfram. #
Taylor is a subversive bass trombonist – Gunther Schuller once called him “one of the world’s three greatest instrumentalists” (he didn’t say who the other two were). #
Wolfram is one of our most outstanding American pianists – whom I featured in my book The Ivory Trade as the quintessential competition loser who deserved to win. #
To sample Taylor’s one-of-a kind Schubert (and to learn more about Friday’s event): click here. #
To hear Taylor play Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata on the trombone, click here. #
To read my previous blog on David Taylor, click here. #
To hear Taylor and Wolfram play the Arpeggione, two late Schubert songs, two late Schubert Klavierstucke, and the Allegretto in C minor, come to Friday’s concert. #
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