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A Tale of Two Pianists:
Bach & Stride
Solo piano concert
by
William McNally
The first part of the program consists of works from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier along with transcriptions of Bach and his peers by composer-pianists of the Golden Age: Rachmaninoff, Friedman, and Godowsky. The second half of the program explores an entirely different style. Novelty style piano works of the 1920s and ’30s (sometimes called “modern” syncopated works) were the most immediate successors to ragtime. More virtuosic than ragtime, the novelty style was a backbone to the technical approach utilized by the strongest band pianists of the Jazz Age.
William McNally is a two–time winner of the World Championship Old–Time Piano Playing Contest, three–time winner of their New Rag Contest, and, until recently, on the faculty of Texas State University.
