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NEWS Yamaha, Hal Leonard Ccorporation & the music sales group announce strategic internet allia (02/04) NEW YORK—Yamaha Corporation of Japan, the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments, together with the world's leading print music publishers Hal Leonard Corporation and the Music Sales Group, announce the formation of YMH Digital Music Publishing.YMH Digital Music Publishing will develop a range of innovative Internet-based products aimed at both professional musicians and music enthusiasts. The new venture will use highly secure, e-commerce-enabled Web locations where visitors can:- download music lessons, MIDI files or musical notation- learn about a chosen instrument of their choice- find songbooks or instructional products with accompanying software and accessories- consult wi Piano Program with Commentary with pianist Barbara Speer tribute to Leonard Bernstein (/) On Sunday, March 16, The Bard Center presents Piano Program with Commentary with pianist Barbara Speer. The program, free and open to the public, will begin at 3:00 p.m. in Olin Hall.Speer will perform an 85th anniversary tribute to Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein's arrangement for solo piano of Copland's El Salón México (1939); and a 65th anniversary tribute to Herbert Sucoff, Piece for Piano (1970). The program also will include Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin (1918); Rachmaninoff Preludes, Op. 23 (1902-03); and Stefan Wolpe's Blues and Tango (1926) and Two Pieces for Piano (1941).Speer says that she finds the format of performing with commentary a very successful way of involving the audience

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