But as he moves on to writing and performing orchestral music, Big Shot has started to make a name for itself, attracting Billy Joel fans to clubs throughout the Island to experience ersatz Piano Man.
This was discovered among his papers nine years ago, and Gerard McBurney was asked to create a performing orchestral edition, which was introduced by Esa-Pekka Salonen in Los Angeles in 2011.
The Southbank Centre today announced that Daniel Barenboim will return to London in spring 2015 to perform orchestral music by Beethoven, Elgar and Strauss, together with four solo piano performances in which the humanitarian, conductor and pianist will perform a cycle of Schubert's piano sonatas.
Another aspect of transcription will be in evidence Thursday at 8 p.m., when Tania Lee Osmond and Hugh Sung perform orchestral solos and duets originally or transcribed for piano.
It's a fantastically strange and eclectic line-up, all told, but it's one that the Mercury nominated folk outfit The Unthanks, who will perform orchestral arrangements of songs from their own back catalogue, are clearly enthused by.
The idea is to perform orchestral works as if they were chamber music, and more often than not, the group's performances have been thoughtfully shaped and beautifully polished.
Mr. Theofanidis, the composer of widely performed orchestral works including "Rainbow Body" and winner of the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and other awards, had an emotional tie to the project: His father, also a musician, came from Greece.
Yet in his final years he wrote what was to become one of his most performed orchestral pieces, the Concerto for Orchestra, and began work on several other, never-completed, projects.
The Northwest Sinfonia, which recorded the music for Halo 3, performed orchestral sections at Studio X in Washington.
Calvi and the Heritage Orchestra first started working together in December 2014, when they played a one-off show at St John's Church in east London, performing radical orchestral reimaginings of her songs.
Since 1969 this organization has brought young musicians to New York for a 10-day seminar of coaching and chamber music, with the larger goal of performing two orchestral programs at Carnegie Hall under Mr. Laredo, the project's artistic director.
