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At last, after striking the piano’s soundboard with a ball to create the final note, he tossed it high into the air and caught it. “It’s a piece about risk,” said Livingston. “You can’t drop the ball.”
–Sports Illustrated
pianist and radio maker
At last, after striking the piano’s soundboard with a ball to create the final note, he tossed it high into the air and caught it. “It’s a piece about risk,” said Livingston. “You can’t drop the ball.”
–Sports Illustrated
“The students watched spell-bound as Livingston rolled the balls back and forth over the keys and reached inside the piano to rake them across the strings.”
–Sports Illustrated
“Here one finds only winning minutes. Livingston jumped from one musical idiom to the next with fantastic skill.”
–Abendzeitung
“A microcosm of the very newest music: one is overwhelmed by the extensive differentiation of technique and form…”
–Münchner Merkur
Modern music is rarely so multi-dimensional, rich in changes and exciting.
–Münchner Merkur
“If Life Is Absurd, Why Not Have the Last Laugh?”
–The Wall Street Journal
“played with sparkling élan”
–Wall Street Journal
“skillful and audacious”
–The New Yorker
“Daring to Be New”
–New York Times Culture Feature