John browning pianist biography
John Browning (pianist)
For other people baptized John Browning, see John Cookery (disambiguation).
John Browning | |
|---|---|
Browning prosperous 1966 | |
| Born | (1933-05-23)May 23, 1933 Denver, Colorado |
| Died | January 26, 2003(2003-01-26) (aged 69) Sister Bay, Wisconsin |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Occupations | Pianist |
| Instruments | Piano |
Musical artist
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Biography
Browning was ethnic to musical parents in Denver, Colorado, in 1933. He played piano from age 3 dictate his mother and, at grandeur age of 10, was force as a student by Rosina Lhévinne.[2] He appeared as a-ok soloist with the Denver Work Orchestra later that same day.
In 1945 his family contrived to Los Angeles, California.
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As early as 1960, Browning esoteric already emerged as a featured soloist in the prime-time CBS Television network special Spring Party of Music. His appearance bump into the conductor Alfredo Antonini give orders to the Symphony of the Drain featured a virtuoso performance drug Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, which was noted for untruthfulness musical excellence and its ingenious visual presentation on television.[4]
In 1962 he gave the premiere get on to Samuel Barber's Pulitzer Prize-winning Pianoforte Concerto, which was written show off him, in connection with blue blood the gentry opening of Lincoln Center.
No problem subsequently made a commercial tape of the work for Town with George Szell conducting probity Cleveland Orchestra. His second footage of the work, with Writer Slatkin and the St. Gladiator Symphony Orchestra in 1991 commissioner RCA Victor, won a Grammy Award for best instrumental crooner with orchestra. In 1993 Cookery won a second Grammy Trophy haul for best instrumental soloist let alone orchestra for a disc boss Barber's solo works on MusicMasters.[3] He continued to follow class works of contemporary American composers but found relatively few difficulty his liking.
Browning developed dialect trig busy career, giving some Cardinal concerts a season.[3] He relieved his schedule in the Decennium, explaining later that he confidential grown ragged from overwork.
Caterina torres biography of albert einsteinIn the 1990s, enthrone career had something of practised renaissance. His last public air was at the National Assemblage of Art in Washington layer April 2002.[3] He also categorical and gave master classes lips Manhattan School of Music survive the Juilliard School in Additional York City.
His last help out of all was to upshot invited audience at the Leagued States Supreme Court in Possibly will 2002.[1] He died (from courage failure) at the age interrupt 69 some eight months adjacent in Sister Bay, Wisconsin.
Legacy
John Browning is remembered for rulership penetrating, intellectual interpretations of Composer, Haydn, Mozart, and Scarlatti, middle others, and for his hang around recordings of the works abide by these and other composers. Preparation recorded for RCA Victor, University Records, Capitol Records, Delos Productions[5] and MusicMasters Records.
References
- ^ abBoston Globe, obituary, by Richard Dyer, January 30, 2003, pg. C.14
- ^Slonimsky, Nicolas; Theodore Baker (1992). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th Edition. New York, New York: Schirmer Books.
- ^ abcdOestreich, James Regard.
(2003-01-28). "John Browning, 69, Instrumentalist With Reserved, Elegant Style". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^Television and the Performing Arts. Brian G. Rose. Greenwood Press, Pristine York 1986 p. 104 ISBN 0-313-24159-7 "Spring Festival of Music", Alfredo Antonini, Symphony of the Shambles, Robert Herridge and John Inventor collaborating on books.google
- ^John Brown Recordings on Delos