I am responding to Assignment # 6.
For the past 65 years, Oscar Peterson has been entertaining the world with his magnificent jazz piano skills. Born in Montreal, Canada, on August 15, 1925, he has grown to be known as one of the world's best jazz pianists. Along with his four brothers and sisters, he was introduced to music at a very young age by his father, Daniel Peterson. During his high school years, Oscar was trained by an accomplished classical pianist, Hungarian-born Paul de Marky, who taught Oscar "technique and speedy fingers". He also helped Oscar come to believe that he had something special and unique to give to the music world.
Although he is noted in Canada as being a leading personage and public figure on top of being a great musician, he is also known around the world. He gained world recognition after auditioning for CBC'S(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) national amateur contest which he went on to win. This opened the doors to several performances on a weekly broadcast show, on a Montreal radio station, and later performances on a national CBC broadcast called "The Happy Gang". Finally, after Oscar felt that his need to play the piano exceeded his need to go to school, he asked his father to drop out. But his father told him that he couldn't "let him leave high school to be a jazz piano player. You have to be the best, there is no second best." And so, with these words of wisdom, Oscar went on and followed his dream to be the world's best known jazz pianists.
***If you would like to see a video of Oscar Peterson's "Hymn to Freedom," click here ------>***
Special facts:
**The San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus performed one of Oscar's most famous songs, Hymn to Freedom at Barack Obama's Inauguration**
**He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received many other awards and honours over the course of his career**
**In 2004, the City of Toronto named the courtyard of the Toronto-Dominion Square "Oscar Peterson Square"**
7 comments:
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Great post, lots of intersting facts in there. Thats really cool, they played his song at Obama's Inauguration.
Keep up the blogging! :)
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