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Ferrante & Teicher
Full Vinyl
Albums
Tracks List
A1 This Guy's In Love With You
A2 The Very Thought Of You
A3 Be My Love
A4 Always
A5 Love Is A Soft Touch
A6 Love Is Blue
B1 Laura
B2 This Love Of Mine
B3 When I Fall In Love
B4 For Once In My Life
B5 The Man I Love
B6 The Look Of Love
C1 Didn't We
C2 If Ever I Would Leave You
C3 Let Me Call You Sweetheart
C4 Love Me Or Leave Me
C5 I Only Have Eyes
For You
C6 Dream Of Love
D1 You And The Night
And The Music
D2 What The World
Needs Now
D3 Love Is Here To
Stay
D4 What Is This
Thing Called Love
D5 I Love You Truly
D6 Love Affair
D6 Love Affair
Ferrante & Teicher were a duo of American piano players, known for
their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and
show tunes, as well as their signature style of florid, intricate and fast
paced piano playing performances.
Arthur Ferrante (September 7, 1921, New York City – September
19, 2009), and Louis Teicher (pronounced
as TIE-cher)
(August 24, 1924, Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania – August 3, 2008) met while studying at the Juilliard School of Music in New York in
1930. Musical prodigies, they began performing as a piano duo while still in
school. After graduating, they both joined the Juilliard faculty.
In
1947, they launched a full-time concert career, at first playing nightclubs,
then quickly moving up to playing classical music with orchestral
backing. Steven Tyler of Aerosmith relates the story that in the
1950s the two students practiced in the home of his grandmother Constance
Neidhart Tallarico. Between 1950 and 1980, they were a major American "easy listening" act, and scored four big
U.S. hits: "Theme from The
Apartment" (Pop #10), "Theme From Exodus"
(Pop #2), "Tonight"
(Pop #8), and "Midnight Cowboy"
(Pop #10). They
performed and recorded regularly with pops orchestras popular standards
by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others. In 1973, they
did the Hollywood Radio Theater theme for the Rod Serling radio drama
series, The Zero
Hour.
The
duo also experimented with prepared pianos, adding paper, sticks, rubber,
wood blocks, metal bars, chains, glass, mallets, and other found objects to
piano string beds. In this way they were able to produce a variety of bizarre
sounds that sometimes resembled percussion instruments, and at other times
resulted in special effects that sounded as if they were electronically
synthesized.
Both
men were initiated as honorary members of Tau Kappa Epsilon at Central State
University (now University of Central Oklahoma) while on tour.
Ferrante
and Teicher ceased performing in 1989 and retired to Longboat Keyand Siesta Key, respectively, close to each other
on the west coast of Florida. They continued to play together occasionally at a
local piano store.
CDs
of their music, some of it not previously released, have continued to appear.
Louis
Teicher died of a heart attack in
August 2008, three weeks before his 84th birthday. Arthur Ferrante died
of natural causes on
September 19, 2009, twelve days after his 88th birthday (he had once said
he wanted to live one year for each piano key). Arthur is survived by his wife,
Jena; his daughter, Brenda Eberhardt; and two granddaughters.
From
Wikipedia, the fr ee encyclopedia
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