Beegie Adair - Moments to Remember - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Beegie pairs her personal favorites with her fans' most frequent requests on this new album by the world-renowned pianist. Pianist Beegie Adair (pronounced B-G) has accompanied such legendary performers as Chet Atkins, Johnny Cash, and Dolly Parton, and worked with such entertainers as Neil Diamond, Mama Cass Elliott, and Peggy Lee in her position as in-house pianist for The Johnny Cash Show for ABC-TV. Adair serves as adjunct professor in jazz studies at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music and currently teaches singers repertoire at the Nashville Jazz Workshop. She thoroughly charms with her takes on InchTaking a Chance on Love,Inch InchEast of the Sun,Inch InchAutumn in New York,Inch InchI'm Glad There Is You,Inch InchMoonlight in Vermont,Inch InchThe Shadow of Your SmileInch and more! By Request is a CD disc with 14 songs.

Within this new album the Armonia delle Sfere ensemble is delivering to us the complete Produzioni Armoniche work by Antonia Bembo, a collection of 41 motets dedicated in 1701 to Louis XIV, in whose court she landed after a series of vicissitudes occurred in Venice, her hometown, including the failure of a marriage and important family disputes, for which she was deprived of her paternal inheritance. After being trained under the musical guidance of Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), organist of the ducal chapel of San Marco, Antonia secretly married Lorenzo Bembo, a Venetian nobleman, from whom she had two children, and from whom in 1672 she herself asked divorce, due to the continuing absence of her husband, whom she also accused of continuing abuse and betrayal. She then moved to Paris, perhaps following the guitarist Francesco Corbetta, where she concentrated on music and composition, and where she had the opportunity to perform in the presence of Louis xiv, at the court of which she would find acceptance and protection until the end of her life. It is the fascinating story of a strong personality that sought and found it's way overcoming the difficult condition of a seventeenth century woman artist.

Pianist Beegie Adair looks back on the movies and recreates favorite numbers from classics such as Casablanca; the Wizard of Oz; Breakfast at Tiffany's and more.