This week on the show, the Ether Game Brain Trust explores what separates the "great" from the merely "OK." It's a look at the fleet-fingered phenoms of the musical world, in a show we're calling "Virtuoso."
Did you know:
Nicolo Paganini, the famed violin virtuoso, played a violin he called "The Cannon," due to its powerful sound.Franz Liszt, the famed piano virtuoso, dedicated his famously difficult Transcendental Etudes to his piano instructor Carl Czerny.Eighteenth-century composer Giuseppe Tartini was so good at playing the violin, that people thought he had six fingers on his left hand!Jazz virtuoso Art Tatum beat fellow pianist Willie "The Lion" Smith in a "cutting contest" by playing "Tea For Two," causing Smith to remark that it was the first time he heard the song really played.See the full playlist below:
