Product Description
Cavallaro's single best-selling recording was his pop version of "Chopin's 'Polonaise'", Op. 53. This arrangement recreates Cavallaro's performance of this famous melody by Chopin. Now you can learn to play in the same sensational style as this legendary pianist.
Carmen Cavallaro was an American pianist. He established himself as one of the most accomplished and admired light music pianists of his generation.
Carmen Cavallaro was born in New York City, United States. Known as the "Poet of the Piano", he showed a gift for music from age three, picking out tunes on a toy piano. His parents were encouraged to develop the child's musical talents and he studied classical piano in the United States. As a young pianist, he toured Europe, performing in many capitals.
Cavallaro developed
a piano-playing style of glittering and rippling arpeggios to augment his melody, which was often arranged in thick and lush triple- and quadruple-octave chords. His musical interests and arrangements included dance music, particularly Latin rhythms, tangos and strict tempo dancing styles, as well as some pop and jazz arrangements of classical melodies.
He guest starred in numerous movies in the 1940's and 50's. His most celebrated film achievement was
playing the piano music for actor Tyrone Power's hands to mime, in
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956).
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