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Responding to a commenter who has gotten some grief for seeming to imply that women are biologically inferior to men as pianists, another commenter contributes the comment of the day:
James,
I remember hearing people say that Grand Ole Opry favorite Del Wood (real name: Polly Adelaide Hendricks Hazelwood) “played like a man.” In fact, Wood deliberately […]
Email of the day:
As a young girl, I dreamed of becoming a southern gospel pianist from the very first time I heard Rosa Nell Speer Powell tear up a song or two. When I was a very brash 13, I remember telling Shannon Childress at a Hoppers concert that he was fantastic but that I […]
Writing that last post, I realized that a brief addendum is in order to earlier posts on gender and southern gospel: whither the female pianist? Eva Mae LeFevre, Rosa Nell Speer, Connie Hopper – these are only the most famous names who performed on the stage in a bygone era. The Phillipses – Eloise and […]
A group owner wrote a few days ago about his search for a pianist:
We are now auditioning piano players, and have heard some really great talent. More and more I am finding young people using the Nashville number system, and that fits quite nicely with my mode of operation.
This is good news as a report […]
Wow. Luann Burger pretty put much NQC on notice about all things Pianorama. Chuck Peters has the goods.
So Dino is coming to Pianorama. Get out your bedazzlers, kids, and don’t forget the Aquanet! Seriously. Who knew Clarke Beasley was a Dino fan? Better yet, who knew southern gospel music fans were Dino fans? Or maybe they aren’t. And maybe they don’t have to be. I really don’t know, but it’s an odd […]
There a lot of first-rate players in gospel music, many of whom make fine soloists and performers in their own right (Anthony Burger, of course, is Exhibit A here). And/but it’s a curious fact of southern gospel […]
The last few months have, obviously, involved a far reduced presence for me online. Mostly this has to do with so-called real-world work and the demands that the regular school year put on teachers. I should have […]
Nah, but Anthony Burger is out with his new single (from a tribute project to Bill Gaither), “He Touched Me” - the same ubiquitous Gaither number that Dino covered on another […]
