Steinway & Sons celebrates 150 years. (Items of Interest).Steinway & Sons Marked its 150th year with a 150th Anniversary Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall Concert hall in New York, N.Y., U.S. It was endowed by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie at the insistence of the conductor Walter Damrosch (1862–1950). Concert Series, "A Celebration of Home," June 5-7, paying tribute to Steinway pianos and three genres of music: classical, jazz and pop. Among the performers were Peter Cincotti, Eroica Trio, Art Garfunkel Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon and Garfunkel. Early life Arthur Ira Garfunkel was born in Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City. He is of Romanian Jewish ancestry. , Gary Graffman Gary Graffman (born 14 October 1928) is a classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator. Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano , Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an award winning American jazz pianist and composer. Hancock is one of jazz music's most important and influential pianists and composers. , Ben Heppner, Ahmad Jamal, k.d. Lang, Michel Legrand, Ramsey Lewis, Roger Williams and Nancy Wilson. "The collaboration of these great musical artists is a testament to the high quality and enduring legacy of Steinway & Sons pianos," said eighty-seven-year-old Henry Z. Steinway. "Our celebration of music, with three consecutive nights of performances from Carnegie Hall, is a beautiful and historic backdrop for this significant milestone." In honor of this anniversary, Steinway & Sons unveiled two limited edition pianos: one created by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, and the second, a recreation of one of the most historic Steinway grand pianos played by legendary artist Ignace Jan Paderewski in 1891. Steinway & Sons was founded on March 5, 1853, by German immigrant Henry Engelhard Steinway and his sons in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , one of the major centers of the piano-making industry in North America at that time. |
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