Nathan Curry is a Media Writing and Production major and Creative American Music minor at the University of Miami Frost School of Music.  Crooked Smile was written from a songwriting exercise in a Lyric Writing class, and was recorded with the assistance of other FSOM and CAM musicians.

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patchwork fraying at the seams
sun pokes holes where patterns meet
paisley against polka dots

ashes on a table top
rubbed into your oily skin
until the surface shines like clean
wipe the ashes on your jeans

crooked teeth, crooked smile

you can taste the sweet delight
even from this far away
tumbling all into the sea

assorted fruit, waking dreams
on the surface for a while
then slowly deeper out of sight
taste better than you thought they might

crooked teeth, crooked smile

jacket sleeves a bit too long
pants that sag
playing person
words that seem to come out wrong
stay in bed
playing possum

hair shines yellow in the sun
dress so easily undone
baring secrets she can’t tell
oh, i think they suit her well

crooked teeth, crooked smile

Nathan Curry - Crooked Smile

Sean Prank

Music: Rachmaninoff Transcriptions — Rachmaninoff: Polka
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Artist: Vadym Kholodenko, piano
Album: Vadym Kholodenko Plays Rachmaninoff & Medtner
Label: Delos Productions — DE 3467

2013 Van Cliburn Competition Winner Releases Debut Solo CD!

Vadym Kholodenko

iTunes: http://bit.ly/JFQo9H
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“…the 27-year-old Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko put on a pretty amazing display of virtuosity — and, not a virtue inevitably linked, musical depth … / … This was music-­‐making as if from another world, far removed from the calculated brilliance more often heard today.” —Dallas Morning News

As Delos director (and revered pianist) Carol Rosenberger wrote in her foreword to this release’s booklet, “The legendary Russian pianism of yesteryear is alive and well! When I listen to Vadym play the piano, I feel that I am witnessing a musical reincarnation.” The qualities she alludes to are the same ones that inspired the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition’s judges, audiences, and media critics alike to respond to Kholodenko’s artistry with awe-stricken rapture.

And “Russian pianism” is, of course, best demonstrated via the interpretation of Russian composers’ music – as proven here in Vadym Kholodenko’s choice of relatively uncommon repertoire from two of Russian music’s “golden-age” composer-pianists: nine of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s thirteen intriguing piano transcriptions, plus Nikolai Medtner’s brilliant, but unjustly neglected “Night Wind” Sonata in E minor (his seventh) – considered his supreme masterpiece. And Vadym – in the course of his now-­‐demanding touring schedule – is rapidly gaining rabid new fans wherever he performs!

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Vadym Kholodenko Plays Rachmaninoff & Medtner: Rachmaninoff — Polka

This home-recorded album contains some of my favorite classical piano pieces that I learned to play as I was growing up.

Polka In D Minor (Glinka)

Sounds from Monday morning

Sounds from Tuesday evening

A composition that evolved from a simple Minor Polka riff on piano. And it took off from there. 

Corn

Nicolas Jaar - And i say

*Artist : Chiharu Aizawa (치하루 아이자와) 
*Album Title : Nocturnes -while others sleep- vol.3


전설의 피아니스트 라자르 베르만에게 ‘세계의 어느 유명 홀에서도 쉽게 접할 수 없는 퀄리티와 감동을 선사한다’는 평을 받은 피아니스트 Chiharu Aizawa.
2009년 라흐마니노프, 쇼스타코비치 등의 러시아 피아노 음악의 진수를 보여준 첫 솔로앨범 ‘Elegia’에 이어 이번에는 쇼팽, 스크리아빈 등 여러 작곡가의 야상곡을 모아 매달 2곡씩 1년에 걸쳐 들려준다.
그녀의 연주는 쉽게 잠 못 이루는 여름 밤을 달래 주는 좋은 위로의 음악이 될 것이다.


1. F.Chopin – Nocturne in f minor, Op.55-1
쓸쓸하면서도 달콤한 싸한 느낌의 멜로디를 가진 이 곡은 중간부분으로 갈수록 드라마틱하고 때로는 불안해지면서 절정에 달해서는 위아래의 성부가 서로 즐겁게 서로 주고 받는 매력적인 곡이다. 그리 길지 않은 연주 속에서 쇼팽의 음악적 스타일을 느낄 수 있는 곡이다.


Sean Prank

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