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Music from the Cave is a CD which contains twenty-one MP3 files created on our Kurzweil K2500XS synthesizer, so named because the keyboard sits in a room lovingly nicknamed "The Cave" by my wife. It's a Mars/Venus thing. The Kurzweil can produce over a thousand synthetic sounds, everything from a Concert Grand, to strings, brass and woodwinds, to every percussion sound imaginable. Its internal sequencer can record up to 16 different tracks at a time, allowing me to play, record, edit and merge multiple tracks, each with a different instrument sound and musical line, into one piece. Lastly, it allows me to record everything as slowly as needed to make it clean and then speed it up to tempo. So here's my disclaimer: it's all Memorex because it will never sound like this live! Most of titles are works that have long been among my favorites. Some, such as Grace, Beautiful Savior, For the Beauty of the Earth, and Of the Father's Love Begotten, are instrumental versions of music that Dee Dee and I have sung with the St. Pius X Church Choir. The Claude Bolling tunes are from his "Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano" and "Picnic Suite for Flute, Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio". They were fun to play and gave me a true appreciation for the talent of this French jazz artist and composer . The Finale from Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto is by far the most complex of the group in terms of the number of tracks and instrument sounds used. Click on the links below to hear one of the tracks. The beginning of Mozart's Sonata in D (K. 448) written for 2 pianos, 4 hands. The finale from the last movement of Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto.
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