As a teenager I was a pretty good pianist. I was also already an enthusiastic advocate for modern music. In 1983 I started typing and quit practicing the piano, and my inability to play well today is a great source of regret. For vanity and documentation, and because some of the pieces I played aren't widely available, I've decided to put up some performances from my two high school recitals, when I was 16 and 17, plus a couple of my chamber performances at Oberlin and one at Orchestra Hall in Chicago in 1980.

1972:

William Schuman: Voyage (1953), 1st movement:

Igor Stravinsky: Tango:

May 18, 1973:

Frederic Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat major:

Kent Kennan: Three Preludes (1938):

Alexander Scriabin: Prelude in D-sharp minor:

Aaron Copland: Piano Sonata:

1st movement:
2nd movement:
3rd movement:

At Oberlin, 1974 (with friends)

Charles Ives: Largo:

George Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn:

In 1980 at Orchestra Hall, Chicago, with Peter Gena, piano, and John Miller, electric guitar:

Peter Gena: Beethoven in SoHo

In 2020, at home during the pandemic

Kyle Gann: Private Dances, No. 1, "Sexy":

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