The Serpent's Kiss - William Bolcom

[LordoftheHobbits]

Love this piece... Fare more impressive played by 1 person.

[INA101a]

Bolcom is a genius!

[percussionist624]

Is this the last movement of the suite?

[lethalfishhead]

@percussionist624 No, it's the second of four. Great performance btw

[DeadWiegraf]

@lethalfishhead Third of four. Old man adam and the eternal femine come befroe and through eden's gate comes last.

[lethalfishhead]

@DeadWiegraf Shoot, sorry. You're right.

[khaals]

This is the best version on youtube. Great visual presentation, great audio quality, great performance, and the pianists were clearly having a wonderful time. I'm surprised I never heard of this before, sorta reminds me of The Dead Moth Tango.

Many other versions have great playing but suffer from terrible audio,

[leleliszt93]

Molto bello il pezzo. L' esecuzione era secondo me un po' moscia.

Avrei preferito più energia. Inoltre i tacchi non fanno sentire i colpi con i piedi.

Per suonare potevano anche usare scarpe più adatte.

[f1f1s]

The 1950s-1970s have gifted us unforgettably weird piano techniques. Shadow and obscure composers on the second half of XX have tried everything to stay in history. John Cage's 4'33" is still hated by the whole Russian school of pianism. Its tutors say, 'the only thing remaining for those abundant composers was to invent on-the-stage keyboard drilling by a perforator'.

Surely, tutors are exaggerating. Still, there are worthy pieces, but they are indended for a wider audience.

[ragtimest]

er hitting the piano??? lol....

[keekocutie27]

Very impressive. I wanna do that on my piano haha.

[Lennythewinner]

You will. Joking apart, with practice and patience, you will :-)

[grampasso1989]

This Bolcom is a mad genius!!! ;)

[fishwithoutwings]

Very well played. The only disappointing thing was when that last melody line before the finish wasn't whistled. It's supposed to be whistled! Oh well.

[aaron12345432]

great technique

[momoiscrazii]

This was really well done!

Btw, anyone who likes this piece should also see braedon and daniel play this, just type in donna fishwick and find serpent's kiss :D

[Scherzo567]

Wow!! This is awesome music. Great Job Maria and Gisele!!

I'm wondering, did the win the competition?

[niffyat]

Piano duets are fantastic. Great work; I loved it!