Pennario rachmaninoff biography
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Leonard Pennario
American pianist and composer
Leonard Pennario (July 9, &#; June 27, ) was an American classical pianist and composer.
He was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles, attending Los Angeles High School remaining in L.A. for his entire career. He first came to notice when he performed Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto at age 12, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The scheduled performer had fallen ill, and Pennario's piano playing had come to the attention of the conductor Eugene Goossens, who recommended him as the soloist after being assured by Pennario that he knew the work. In fact, he had never seen the music or even heard it, but he learned it in a week.[citation needed]
He studied with Guy Maier, Olga Steeb, and Isabelle Vengerova and attended the University of Southern California, where he studied composition with Ernst Toch. World War II interrupted his career, and he served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in the China Burma India Theater, where his piano skills were soon realized and served well entertaining troops of the Air Transport Command operation known as "The Hump". He occasionally had to play around keys missing from the keyboards of the pianos at a couple of the more remote bases. He was discharged in as a staff se
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Piano Concerto No. 4 (Rachmaninoff)
Composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff
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ReDiscovery RD
There was a time around when Buffalo, New York-born pianist Leonard Pennario was selling more piano recordings than just about anyone else. Pennario's performing/recording heydays were from around to the mids although he performed almost to the end of his life. Leonard Pennario, born in , passed away in California on June 27, He recorded initially and prolifically for Capitol Records, which fell under the umbrella of EMI Records and his recording career continued with EMI. He also made many recordings for RCA Victor and made recordings for Cambria. Reissues have appeared on previous released Pennario material on the ReDiscovery label [this was the only label you could get all of Pennario's four Chopin Scherzos on CD], MSR Classics, Disky, and Testament.
I remember my parents saying, when they visited Leonard in California, that he opened a closet door for them one day and said "this is my life's work!" At that time, there existed a huge array of LP recordings in that closet, the days before CDs. Pennario also endorsed Baldwin pianos (generally heard on his Capitol Recordings) and eventually he teamed up with Steinway & Sons on which his later recordings were made.
Leonard Pennario was a long-time family friend. I remember interviewing him in my studio