Ferrante and Teicher
Dynamic Twin Pianos
LP
(Ultra Audio, 1960)
I bought this LP on a trip. I think it was when my friends Virginia and Sharon and I made a pilgrimage to the Precious Moments Chapel in Missouri, around a decade ago. Me being me, I made them stop at record stores, and I found this little gem. It was part of a series of releases on the United Artists sub-label Ultra Audio, almost all with similar cover art featuring big, colorful dots. Ferrante and Teicher have been better known the last several decades for saccharine-dipped easy listening, but this album is downright fun. There were apparently several albums of "prepared piano," but I have only one other, Blast Off! ('tis a fun ride, as well).
Selected liner notes, including a play-by-play description of techniques used for this piece, one of the few originals on the LP, can be found after the jump.
