Franz Kamin plays Ives' "Hawthorne" mvmt from the "Concord Sonata"

It's my opinion that Franz Kamin (1941-2010) was a great composer, writer, performance artist, & pianist who never got his due while he was alive. Because of this, I recently spent 7 months making a 3:40:39 documentary about him called "DEPOT (wherein resides the UNDEAD of Franz Kamin)". In the process of making this, Robert Burke has been generous enough to share his footage with me that he shot of Franz in Minnesota & Wisconsin from 2000 to 2006. This includes a marvelous piano recital held at a private home in Wisconsin on October 13, 2000. For my documentary I interviewed pianists Richard Cameron-Wolfe & Paul Cantrell about Kamin's qualities as a pianist. Both thought him extraordinary. I can only add that I wholeheartedly agree! Here he performs an abridged version of the "Hawthorne" movement (just the beginning & the end) of Charles Ives' incredible "Concord Sonata" aka "Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-60"" - this being my personal favorite piece of mind-bogglingly complex piano music of the early 20th century. Kamin was known to play the entire Concord Sonata from memory but I, alas, know of no recording of this. Unfortunately, Kamin was supposedly never satisfied w/ his performances so he didn't encourage documentation. When I 1st witnessed this very rare footage I was blown away by the playing. I hope you will be too. A foundation is being created to preserve & further his work. - April 29th, 2011 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

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Music

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• Franz Kamin
• piano
• Ives
• Concord Sonata
• Hawthorne

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