![jenny teal piano prodigy jenny teal piano prodigy](https://azure.wgp-cdn.co.uk/app-pianist/posts/WilliamZhang_YouTube_WilliamZhangYoungPianist.png)
![jenny teal piano prodigy jenny teal piano prodigy](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hLtVT4qUIRQ/maxresdefault.jpg)
Tenor Brian Anderson lent his sweet tenor to Handel's "Comfort Ye" from the Messiah. Our beloved soprano has created this event for the past 19 years and the proceedings are always invested with holiday spirit in the best sense of the word. The cost of admission was a cast-off warm winter coat or a bag of groceries the reward was 2 1/2 hours spent with Lauren Flanigan and Friends who sang their hearts out to benefit the homeless. We were delighted to share the experience. plays it becomes a part of his body and the music comes from the heart. J.'s bandoneón is a beautiful instrument of ebony wood with delicate inlays of mother-of-pearl. It feels highly influenced by the tango but it isn't dance music. This is serious music with many moods and colors, finely shaped melodies and driving rhythms. Wasserman and an arrangement of The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus", all the music was composed by Mr. We think of jazz as largely improvised, making it difficult to think of this music as jazz inasmuch as all the parts are scored. Guest artists were Amy Kang on cello and Sita Chay on violin. Jofre appeared at the Somethin' Jazz Club, a charming and intimate venue in East Midtown, with a group he calls the Hard Tango Chamber Band, comprising Daniela Candillari on piano, Fung Chern Hwei on violin, Jessica Meyer on viola and Ron Wasserman on bass. Jofre, the bandoneón becomes an extension of his body and the playing a kind of dance. It is somewhat related to the concertina but played very differently from the accordion. It is popular not only in Argentina but also in Uruguay and (surprise!) Lithuania. Invented in 1840 by German instrument dealer Heinrich Band, it was brought to the New World by sailors and laborers and rapidly established itself in the milonga, precursor to the tango. We rarely review instrumental music but we make an exception for JP Jofre whose bandoneón literally sings in his hands it sings of Argentina's culture, it's people and its history.