Apart from the fact that the former is a concert-standard pianist and the latter enjoys wearing a basketball cap back-to-front.
In 1915, Prokofiev made a decisive break from the standard composer-pianist category with his orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes.
In 1915 Prokofiev made a decisive break from the standard composer-pianist category with his orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes.
Only recently, many decades after the written-out version became the standard, have pianists like Marcus Roberts and the unlikely duo of Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang put the idea of improv back into the "Rhapsody".
There are not many pieces from the standard repertory that the pianist Seymour Lipkin's students at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute could bring to their lessons that he has not played himself.
A pianist played standards on a baby grand in the foyer.
In 1997 she released a lackluster album of standards, "Rendezvous," with the pianist Jacky Terrasson.
A pianist plays standards from the cheesy end of the nineteen-seventies: "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie," "Live and Let Die".
PLAYLIST On Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, a jazz trio headed by Theo Hill, a pianist, performs standards and indulges requests from 8 30 p.m. to midnight.
His comic set pieces were sandwiched between his superb performances of standards accompanied by the pianist Tedd Firth playing in a more earthy style than usual.
