New Sealed ABRAM CHASINS CONSTANCE KEENE LP Two-Piano Artistry

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VINTAGE NEW FACTORY SEALED VINYL 33 rpm LP RECORD

 ABRAM CHASINS & CONSTANCE KEENE

TWO-PIANO ARTISTRY

IPAM 1107

Year of Release: 1987

Country of Release: USA

Track List:

Blue Danube (Strauss) (6:56) --

Carmen fantasy (Bizet) (8:03) --Artist's life (Strauss) (8:33) --

Fledermaus fantasy (Strauss) (7:32) --

Parade (4:56) --Period suite (14:48) --

Rush hour in Hong Kong (1:42) --

Melody (Gluck) (3:53) --

Dance of the buffoons (Rimsky-Korsakov) (4:02).

  VINYL = BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED

COVER = EXCELLENT WITH A TINY BIT OF WEAR ON THE CORNER TIPS, NO CUT-OUT MARKS.

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MINT .. Literally Perfect Record, Shiny Gloss, No Marks, Beautiful Condition.

MINT- .. Very Clean, Light Paper Marks... A Great Record for Most Any Collector.

VG++ (EX) ... Very Clean, Light Paper Marks... Plays Well with Seldom, but Occasional and Minimal Surface Noise

VG+ .. Light Scratches Only, Should Play Well with Only Occasional and Minimal Surface Noise at Times.

VG .. A Nice Record, Looks Used with Some Scratches. Plays with Some Surface Noise.

VG- .. Rough with Scratches and has Some Surface Noise , but Will Play without skips.

G .. Plays Quite Rough, Has Multiple Scratches, Very Noisy.

P .. Poor Condition. Good only for those who will accept any copy to fill in their collection.

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Abram Chasins (August 17, 1903 – June 21, 1987) was an American composer, pianist, piano teacher, lecturer, musicologist, music broadcaster, radio executive and author.

Born in Manhattan, New York, he attended the Ethical Culture schools and undertook additional studies through the Columbia University Extension School. He studied piano with Ernest Hutcheson and composition with Rubin Goldmark at the Juilliard School of Music before proceeding to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he undertook further piano studies with Józef Hofmann. In 1931 he studied music analysis with Sir Donald Tovey in London.

Chasins' career as a pianist lasted from 1927 until 1947. He gave many solo recitals and performed with major orchestras in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. On January 1, 1929 he made his debut playing his Piano Concerto No 1 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch. He also gave the premiere performance of his Second Piano Concerto in March 1933, again with the Philadelphia Orchestra, this time conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

From 1926 to 1935 Chasins taught piano as a member of the faculty of the Curtis Institute. He was associated with the radio station WQXR from 1941 to 1965, becoming the music director in 1946. His own radio series, "Piano Pointers", ran from 1932 to 1939 and he used his E flat minor Prelude as the program's theme.

In 1949 he married Constance Keene, a pianist and former student of his, with whom he performed and recorded piano duos. In 1972 he joined the University of Southern California as musician-in-residence, and reorganized the student-run radio station KUSC into a channel for classical and modern music. He retired in 1977, and died of cancer at his home in Manhattan on June 21, 1987.

Chasins wrote over 100 compositions, mostly for the piano. His Three Chinese Pieces (1920s)[1][2] were performed by celebrated pianists including Josef Lhévinne, Józef Hofmann, William Kapell and Shura Cherkassky, and in its orchestrated version was the first American work to be performed by Toscanini with the New York Philharmonic. The "Concert Paraphrase on Strauss's 'Artist's Life'" is among his best works for two pianos, four hands, and his 24 Preludes for Piano (1928) continue to be used as teaching pieces.

He also wrote a number of books on music and musicians, including Speaking of Pianists (1958), The Van Cliburn Legend (1959), The Appreciation of Music (1966), Music at the Crossroads (1972) and Stoki, the Incredible Apollo (1978), a biography of Leopold Stokowski.[3]

Constance Keene (9 February 1921 – 24 December 2005) was an American pianist, who attracted great praise for her 1964 recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Preludes and also won critical acclaim for her recordings of the works of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn; as well as Rachmaninoff's complete Études Tableaux, which she recorded more than thirty years after the Preludes.

She was raised in Brooklyn, New York City. One of her teachers was Abram Chasins. She won the Naumburg Piano Competition in 1943. In 1946, she stood in for Vladimir Horowitz when he was unavailable for a concert, and she claimed she was the only female pianist ever to have been given this honor. She also appeared with Benny Goodman and his Orchestra in a performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. In 1949 she married Chasins, who died in 1987. They performed and recorded music for piano duo.

Through her husband, who had himself studied with the great pianist Josef Hofmann, she became personally acquainted with many great pianists, notably including Vladimir Horowitz. She and Chasins regularly socialized and played bridge with Horowitz and his wife Wanda Toscanini Horowitz during Horowitz's 12-year retirement from the concert stage. As a teen she met Hofmann, Godowski, and Rachmaninoff; as an adult she and Chasins helped Van Cliburn before his meteoric rise to fame; she was close with William Kapell, Abbey Simon, and countless other pianists. Later in life she continued to be an important member of New York's piano community, often hosting rising young pianists such as Evgeny Kissin and Lang Lang at her Upper West Side home.

She later became an accomplished teacher herself. Her pupils included the children of Arthur Rubinstein, who said of her performances of Rachmaninoff's Preludes that he was "flabbergasted by the colour, sweep and imagination and ... incredible technique. I cannot imagine anybody, including Rachmaninoff, playing the piano so beautifully".[1]

For many years, she was on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, served as the Chair of the Piano Department, and was a member of its Board of Trustees. She was also sought out as a piano competition adjudicator.

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