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Price: $125.00 |
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NATALIE HINDERAS - PIANIST |
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Autographed 8” x 10” photograph of the African-American pianist. Scarce! Natalie Hinderas (1927-1987) was the product of dual pianist parents, her Father a jazz pianist, her mother, a classical pianist who taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She began study at the age of three and received her first formal lessons at 6. Her first complete recital was at the age of 6 and she played the Grieg Piano Concerto with a local Cleveland Orchestra at the age of 8. Hineras graduated from Oberlin at the age of 18, their youngest graduate at the time. She then went to New York to study with the famed pianist and pedagogue Olga Samaroff at Juilliard, who convinced her to change her last name from Henderson to Hinderas to give her a more exotic flair. Hinderas then finished her studies with Edward Steuermann in Philadelphia. Her New York Recital debut at Town Hall was sensational and received rave reviews. The concert led to all sorts of engagements for the pianist, as well as a spot on “What’s My Line.” Her tours throughout Europe were typically with the organization of the State Department and she also performed stadium concerts with the likes of author-poet Langston Hughes and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, though in one case, in Nigeria, she had an unpleasant experience, as the stadium crowd did not understand a fusing of classical and jazz and thought the programming beneath them. Hinderas championed black composers like R. Nathaniel Dett, William Grant Still, John W. Work and gave the premier performance in 1976 of the George Walker piano concerto which was commissioned for her. Hinderas played with all of the major U.S. orchestras, including her color barrier breaking 1971 concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra. There is a wide range of her recordings of African American composers available today on music sites, like Amazon. She died at the age of 60 in the prime of her career. A scarce autograph! |
