Re: [ARSCLIST] Richard Nanes

[Karl Miller <karl.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had heard stories...namely one involving a film music composer who had ghost written his music. I never could get at the truth of it all. His web site indicates that he is still active...doing what, I am not sure.
   
  His music is released on the Delfon Recording Society Label. It appears to be a vanity label...but these days, it seems that the same could be said for most classical labels. I found his music to be empty rhetoric.
   
  It is odd, but not having thought about him for years...at first I thought of him as a bad joke, the amount of money spent on his promotion seemed to be in inverse proportion to his talents...yet these days, the more I learn about the business side of things (have a label teaches one a great deal!) the more I realize the role promotion plays even in classical music.
   
  I just don't know what to make out of Nanes, but one thing is for sure, by measure he ain't no Horowitz...or Prokofiev...or Rachmaninoff...or...Medtner...or Shchedrin...or Ovchinnikov...
  come to think of it, the pianist/composer breed seems to have died...oh no, maybe I have another marketing tool for him, "Richard Nanes, the last of the great composer pianists."
   
  Karl

David Lewis <davlew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Karl,

That's a good question; even I have no idea. All those products, and the ad
on the back of the Schwann for years. I really tried to get a grip on Nanes,
and technically he is a very skilled player. But I couldn't get past his
lapses of taste. 

David N. Lewis
Assistant Classical Editor, All Music Guide

"Never treat an audience as customers-always treat them as partners." - Ted
Healy

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And speaking of Nanes, does anyone know anything about his story.

Karl

David Lennick wrote:
Nanes. Richard Nanes.