Piano Productions, Inc. Launches Publishing Wing Piano Productions Press
Piano Productions, Inc. is proud to launch publishing division Piano Productions Press. Piano Productions Press publishes piano music exclusively, specializing in piano ensemble repertoire, music written for multiple hands and pianos.

PHILADELPHIA, PA, August 22, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Piano Productions, Inc. is proud to celebrate its 20th Anniversary by launching a publishing division, Piano Productions Press. Piano Productions Press (PPR) in turn is immensely gratified by a unique cooperation with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (NYPL) in publishing the legacy of the First Piano Quartet.

While publishing piano music exclusively, with multi-hand works a specialty, a significant part of the PPR multi-piano listing revives the transcriptions of the First Piano Quartet (FPQ), a unique collection previously available only in hand-written, and much edited copies.

The First Piano Quartet performed a weekly, live radio broadcast on NBC for over 12 years in the 1940s and '50s, creating more than four hundred, 4 piano-8 hand arrangements for their radio broadcasts, over 500 concerts nationally and 17 recordings. With the cooperation of the NYPL, Piano Productions Press is making this historic library available to the public for the first time.

The featured launch publication is the humorous, Classical Cocktail No. 5, created by the FPQ. Like all the other cocktails, this one is a short, witty, fantasy incorporating several tunes as diverse as Schumann's Happy Farmer, Tchaikovsky's B-flat Piano Concerto and Oh, Susannah, of Stephen Foster.

Other publications showcased are Streetsyncs: Eleven Ragtime Pieces by the late Indiana composer, Garland Anderson, and a new version of Amazing Grace arranged for 2 pianos-4 hands by New Jersey composer, Tony Finno. The first PPR catalog of some 30 arrangements and new works also includes Shane Cadman's The Noise of a Multitude for one piano-18 hands, exclusive to PPR and available no other way.
Created by John Kozar and Elizabeth M. Carder, Piano Productions, Inc. is a 501/c/3, not-for-profit, whose sole educational mission is to promote knowledge and appreciation of the acoustic piano and piano music, through performance, recording and publishing.

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John Kozar
Piano Productions Press
Executive Director
2063 Lombard Street
Philadelphia, PA
United States 19146
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