The Rice Brothers, Johnny and Chris, share the glorious music of the piano and cello, in solos, duets, and ensembles with wonderful musicians from around the world who play other magnificent instruments. Classical music is featured, as well as Gospel music, jazz, ragtime, Boogie Woogie, and much more. You are also welcomed to a discussion of the role of music in creating community, health, education and inspiration.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS, everyone! We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, and a terrific New Year!
We also hope you enjoy our arrangement of “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” (Mendelsohn – Wesley), and that the coming seasons of your lives are filled with truly beautiful music!
With a [...]
Anyone who’s paying attention can tell that she’s gifted, and gifted at the highest level. The passion is there, and there are a of couple of those unmistakable “telltale signs.” All a person has to do is watch Paula for a while. Y’know how there are dogs that … well, you only need to catch [...]
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We offer our cello / piano arrangement of Ave Maria in the hope that all of God’s children will have a wonderful holiday season! For those of you who, with our family, are enjoying the Christmas season, and of course celebrating the birth of Jesus… Well, we [...]
To our astonishment, Dan Brenden dropped in to our most recent Bach-’n-All™, and listened to us play music for a while! He’s been on the run, again. Since we’ve known him, which has been quite a few years, now, it’s seemed as though he’s always been on the run, at least until the law drags [...]
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Belinda (who I mentioned in the previous post) and I performed this piece together when we were twelve years old. That was about half of our respective musical lifetimes ago, since we’re now both in the vicinity of 20 years old. Each of us started into piano [...]
Franz Schubert wrote songs … hundreds of them. Ella Fitgerald sang ‘em. And Belinda? Well, she is a song. For the longest time, when I’ve thought of Belinda, it’s been, as Rogers and Hart wrote in 1929, and Ella Fitzgerald sang, nearly 30 years later, “With a Song in My Heart!”
I’d guess that a [...]
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George Gershwin had his priorities straight… He dropped out of school when he was 15. That’s the thing we most admire and appreciate about him. We’re thankful that he [...]
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