{"id":2718,"date":"2020-05-19T03:35:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T03:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=2718"},"modified":"2020-05-19T03:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T03:37:41","slug":"salonline-2020-05-17-alex-hassan-returns-with-a-syncopated-romance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=2718","title":{"rendered":"Salonline 2020-05-17 Alex Hassan Returns With “A Syncopated Romance”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Click to Watch this Salonline<\/a><\/h2>\n

Sunday May 17<\/em>, 2020<\/h2>\n

(our linchpin salonline performer!)<\/h4>\n

Alex Hassan<\/h1>\n

presents<\/p>\n

“A Syncopated Romance”<\/h1>\n

Glorious Melodies Between the World Wars<\/em><\/h3>\n

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Alex Hassan returns for a third streamed solo piano concert–an hour of romantic to toe-tapping to jazzy melodies of Golden Age Broadway and Hollywood (and Stalinist Russia–OY!).\u00a0 Songwriting greats Jerome Kern, Vernon Duke, Harry Warren, Isaak Dunaevsky (Vot’s dis???!!!) dot the confectionery musical menu, along with a few of their lesser known colleagues (Alex as archaeologist).\u00a0 For an hour, forget all that’s gone screwy the last couple of months, and tune in to Emerson Avenue Salons, Sunday night, May 17th, 7:30PM, eastern time.\u00a0 You’ll enter an alternate musical universe, in which the phrase “They just don’t write ’em like that anymore.” might be the first to spring to mind!<\/h3>\n

——–<\/p>\n

BIO<\/h1>\n

Alex Hassan<\/strong> has been in total immersion 1920s\/30s Tin Pan Alley Popular\u00a0Piano Styles therapy for over 40 years.\u00a0\u00a0A pupil of a pupil of a pupil\u00a0of a pupil of Franz Liszt (well\u2026it SOUNDS impressive?!), he has been a\u00a0torchbearer for the melodies of between-the-wars Broadway and Hollywood\u00a0(and European equivalents), devoting himself more specifically to\u00a0collecting and resurrecting the great \u201clate Romantic with a beat\u201d\u00a0popular songs that really never had a chance.<\/p>\n

His archival collection of [mostly] popular\u00a0piano solo and vocal sheet music numbers around 45,000 titles, entirely\u00a01920s\/30s. It is a tribute to those heady musical times that there is\u00a0still so much left to find.<\/p>\n

Alex has performed internationally at such venues as England\u2019s Aldeburgh\u00a0Festival,\u00a0\u00a0Husum (2007 & 2015\u2013\u201cPiano Rarities Festival\u201d), Washington\u00a0DC\u2019s Kennedy Center, the Coolidge Auditorium (Library of Congress),\u00a0various Manhattan\/Baltimore\/Washington night spots, and national ragtime\u00a0festivals.\u00a0\u00a0He has recorded prolifically for England\u2019s SHELLWOOD PRODUCTIONS,\u00a0\u00a0Los Angeleno label OPERETTA ARCHIVES, and Pennsylvania\u2019s\u00a0STOMP OFF, and has produced\/annotated several reissues of the virtuoso\u00a0popular pianists of the 78RPM period, for both Shellwood and the\u00a0Pittsburgh company, RIVERMONT (for which he has also recorded, along\u00a0with two brilliant singing friends).<\/p>\n

HOW TO WATCH<\/h1>\n

To watch the broadcast, click the following link:<\/p>\n

Click to Watch this Salonline on YouTube<\/a><\/h2>\n

or: https:\/\/youtu.be\/vdwIB9mFidw<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click to Watch this Salonline Sunday May 17, 2020 (our linchpin salonline performer!) Alex Hassan presents “A Syncopated Romance” Glorious Melodies Between the World Wars Alex Hassan returns for a third streamed solo piano concert–an hour of romantic to toe-tapping to jazzy melodies of Golden Age Broadway and Hollywood (and Stalinist Russia–OY!).\u00a0 Songwriting greats Jerome […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":189,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2718","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2718\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}