Henry Cowell - Advertisement performed by Mary Prescott

American pianist Mary Prescott performs Henry Cowell's classic avant garde composition, Advertisement. Cowell called this piece, "a satire on repetitious advertisement of a raucous nature." Performance dated April 15, 2005. www.MaryPrescott.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• Henry
• Cowell
• Advertisement
• piano
• american
• avant
• garde
• fist
• clusters
• Manhattan
• School
• 20th
• century

[Ocielocique]

I believe I detected a wrong note at around 1:09

[gmmmmmm]

Woohoo!

[petezilla]

Wow great job! on playing this CRAZY thing (which, looking at the score, is NOT easy). Awesome.

[notker912]

Very fine. It reminds me of Cowell's own recording from so long ago, before television. Ms. Prescott's brilliant performance makes one want to play the piece on the television itself. There are tone clusters (acciaccature) in Scarlatti harpsichord sonatas too, but you play the notes with your fingertips in the usual way, without releasing any of them, to much the same effect.

[iSpySchool]

Fantastic, but clearly too difficult to play! Well done!

[lexo30]

@mozart20dlubos But a child didn't.

[lexo30]

I'd never heard this piece before and to begin with, I was wondering why she was wearing gloves - and then I thought, oh right.

[shosta18]

5 estrelas

[fremsley001]

I agree with nowotnik .... and there must also have been ten thousand kids who, when on first encountering their great aunt's piano, discovered the delights of the sustain pedal combined with a forearm's length of notes, and then those thousand kids who ventured into the interior and plucked or scraped that ghostly machine's strings with their tender fingernails. Cowell's genius was to remain that kid.

[thesurface850]

brilliant