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Ferrante & Teicher

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Piano duo Ferrante & Teicher were among the best-selling easy listening acts from the ’60s, giving light arrangements of easily recognizable traditional pieces, movie soundtrack themes, display tunes, and similarly suitable fare. Arthur Ferrante (created Sept 7, 1921, NEW YORK) and Louis Teicher (created August 24, 1924, Wilkes-Barre, PA.) fulfilled while going to the exclusive Juilliard College of Music; both had been child prodigies, plus they struck up an easy friendship, performing collectively like a duo whilst these were still in college. After graduating as piano majors, they both became a member of the Juilliard faculty, while creating a distinctive design of their own throughout their leisure time. In 1947, they truly became a full-time concert take action, initially playing nightclubs, after that quickly upgrading to traditional music with orchestral support. A change to popular tunes and requirements by famous brands Kern, Porter, Gershwin, and Rodgers produced them mainstays within the pops-orchestra field. While these were savoring success in the concert circuit, Ferrante & Teicher have been tinkering with treated pianos, inspired — strangely enough — with the tips of avant-garde composer John Cage. With the addition of paper, sticks, silicone, wood blocks, steel bars, chains, cup, mallets, as well as other discovered objects towards the string bedrooms (among other methods), the duo could create a selection of bizarre sound files that occasionally resembled percussion equipment, as well as other situations created a spacy, nearly electronic audio (before this kind of tone even been around). Within the last mentioned fifty percent of the ’50s, they documented several albums within this vein for Westminster (especially 1956’s Soundproof and Soundblast) and ABC-Paramount (including 1958’s Blast Off!). The outcomes were highly exclusive and quite not the same as their later function, appealing even more to hi-fi aficionados and space-age pop supporters. In 1960, Ferrante & Teicher agreed upon with United Performers, where they quickly begun to tailor their sound to a far more mainstream audience. A lot of their following albums highlighted orchestras executed by Nick Perito, and their make of instrumental pop captured on rapidly. They landed a high Ten pop strike later on in 1960 with “Theme From ‘The House’,” and adopted it making use of their biggest strike, an set up of Ernest Gold’s epic film theme “Exodus,” which climbed to number 2 and inspired a favorite jazz edition by saxophonist Eddie Harris. 1961 brought another pop TOP with the Western Side Story music “Tonight,” that was featured on the highest-charting LP, the quantity ten Western Side Story along with other FILM & Broadway Favorites. A overflow of Ferrante & Teicher albums adopted during the period of the ’60s, with around 30 of these achieving the pop graphs up through 1972. They taken care of much touring plan, playing over 100 concerts annually at the elevation of their recognition. They also handled one final TOP solitary in 1970 making use of their movie-theme cover “Midnight Cowboy”; the associated recording of the same name discovered them experimenting a little with strange acoustic guitar results. Ferrante & Teicher’s voluminous documenting speed tailed off through the ’70s, although they do continue to released albums frequently. In 1979, they still left United Artists to create their very own label, and in 1989, they still left the concert circuit once and for all, retiring to Sarasota, FL. The lounge/exotica revival from the ’90s helped revive interest within their experimental early recordings, and in 2001 resulted in the first-ever problem of Denizens from the Deep, a couple of treated-piano instrumentals designed to evoke ocean animals that constituted their initial recorded work. Internet dating from 1950, it turned out scrapped and only a thorough concert tour; for the discharge, Ferrante & Teicher added several simple embellishments towards the archival recordings that finished their original idea for the parts.

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Music Songs The Apartment, Midnight Cowboy, Exodus, Lawrence Of Arabia, Love Theme from One Eyed Jacks, Nadia's Theme, African Echoes, A Man and a Woman, Malagueña, Brazilian Sleigh Bells, Tonight, The Godfather, Theme From Love Story, Sleigh Ride / Santa Claus' Party, Jealous Lover, Live For Life, Happy Sleigh Ride, I Want To Spend My Life With You, Khartoum, Oye Negra, The Music Lovers, Jim Webb Medley, Send in the Clowns, Theme From "Taras Bulba", Che Si Dice, Theme From The Eleventh Hour, Paris Joy Ride, A Rage To Live, Goodbye Again, Canadian Sunset, Ravel's Bolero, Love Theme From "Romeo & Juliet"
Albums Love Themes, Heavenly Sounds, Pianos In Paradise, The World's Greatest Themes, Latin Pianos, The Ferrante & Teicher Collection, Love Themes from Cleopatra, Denizens Of The Deep, Xmas Hi-Fivories, Ferrante & Teicher . . . Beautiful . . . Beautiful, Postcards from Paris, Great 1970's Motion Picture Themes, Heavenly in Hi-Fi, Hi-Fiireworks, The Enchanted World of Ferrante and Teicher, I Love Piano, All Too Delicate, Under the Sea, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, The Perfect Christmas, The Christmas Song, 15 Essentials of Ferrante & Teicher (Mono Version), Santa Is Coming, Tonight & Other Favorites, Sélection de musiques de films (Mono Version), Musique pour notre amour (Mono Version), Exodus, Christmas Melodies, African Echoes, American Fantasy, Wonderworld Of Hits, The Collection, La garçonnière (Mono Version), Adventure in Paradise (Mono Version), Santa´s Christmas Give-Aways, Vol. 9, Pianos en nocturne (Stereo version), It's Christmas Night, Hangout, Christmas Collection (Original Classic Christmas Songs), Melodías Maravillosas, Down South With Two Pianos, Seuls ce soir (Mono Version), Carols Our Way, Lead The Dance, Themes of Love, Soundblast, Blast Off!, The Very Best of Ferrante & Teicher, The Best of Ferrante & Teicher, Ferrante & Teicher With Percussion, Golden Themes from Motion Pictures


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Soundtrack

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Vinyl 2016 TV Series performer - 1 episode
Four Christmases 2008 performer: "Sleigh Ride" - as Ferrante
Elf 2003 performer: "Sleigh Ride" 1948 - as Ferrente
A Rage to Live 1965 music: "Rage To Live" / performer: "Rage To Live" - as Ferrante
The Danny Kaye Show 1964 TV Series performer - 1 episode
Goodbye Again 1961 performer: "Theme From Goodbye Again"

Actor

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium 1962 TV Series as Ferrante &Teicher

Self

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The New Hollywood Squares 1987 TV Series Guest Appearance
Dinah! 1975 TV Series Himself
The Mike Douglas Show 1962-1975 TV Series Himself - Pianist / Himself - Pianists
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters 1970 TV Series Himself
The Ed Sullivan Show 1961-1969 TV Series Himself - Pianist / Pianist
The Bell Telephone Hour 1961-1965 TV Series Himself - Pianist / Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962-1964 TV Series Himself - Guest / Himself
The Lloyd Thaxton Show 1964 TV Series Himself
The Danny Kaye Show 1964 TV Series Himself
The Hollywood Palace 1964 TV Series Himself - Pianist
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show 1961 TV Series Himself
New American Bandstand 1965 1960 TV Series Himself
Chelsea at Nine 1957 TV Series Himself

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