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Leonard Pennario
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From Wikipedia Leonard Pennario (July 9, 1924 - June 27, 2008) was an American classical pianist. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles, remaining there for his entire career. He first came to notice when he performed Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto at age 12, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The scheduled performer had fallen ill, Pennario's piano playing had come to the attention of the conductor Eugene Goossens, who recommended him as the soloist after being assured by Pennario that he knew the work. In fact, he had never seen the music or even heard it, but he learned it in a week. He studied with Isabelle Vengerova and Olga Steeb and attended the University of Southern California, where he studied composition with Ernst Toch. World War II interrupted his career, and he served in the U.S. Army Air Force in China, Burma and India, where his piano skills were soon realized and served well entertaining troops. He occasionally had to play around keys missing from the keyboards of the pianos at a couple of the more remote bases. He was discharged in 1946 as a staff sergeant and was awarded three Battle Stars. He had, however, made his debut, in uniform, with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall on November 17, 1943, with Artur Rodziński, playing Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1. Shortly after Sergei Rachmaninoff's death, the conductor Dmitri Mitropoulos invited Leonard Pennario to be the soloist at a memorial concert, playing the Second Piano Con
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Liebestraum No. 3, S. 541
1,0622Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune
9033Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5
5734Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVIII: Andante Cantabile
4125Waltz in D-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, "Minute Waltz"
2676Slavonic Dances, Op. 72: No. 2 in E Minor
2317March of the Lunatics
2178Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Op. 53, "Heroic"
2159Norwegian Dances, Op. 35: II. Allegretto tranquilo e grazioso in A Major
20010Liebestraum No. 3, S.541
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Perfect Piano
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Leonard Pennario: Piano Classics
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Piano Recital: Pennario, Leonard – Rota, N. / Legrand, M. / Barry, J. / Steiner, M. / Rozsa, M. / Bernstein, E. / Kaper, B. / Goldsmith, J. / Korngold
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