Steinway & Son Marked its 150th year with a 150th Anniversary Carnegie Hall contrive Series.
Steinway & Son Marked its 150th year with a 150th Anniversary Carnegie Hall contrive Series, "A Celebration of Home" June 5-7 paying tribute to Steinway pianos and three genre of music: classical, jazz and pop
Among the performers were Peter Cincotti, Eroica Trio, Art Garfunkel, Gary Graffman, Herbie Hancock, Ben Heppner, Ahmad Jamal, kd Lang, Michel Legrand, Ramsey Lewis, Roger Williams and Nancy Wilson.
"The collaboration of these great musical artists is a testament to the high quality and enduring legacy of Steinway & Son pianos," said eighty-seven-year-old Henry Z Steinway. "Our celebration of music, with three consecutive nights of performances from Carnegie Hall, is a beautiful and historic backdrop for this significant milestone."
In honor of this anniversary, Steinway & Son unveiled sum of two units limited edition pianos: one created at fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, and the next to the first a recreation of one of the most numerous historic Steinway grand pianos played at legendary artist Ignace Jan Paderewski in 1891
Steinway & Son was baseed on March 5, 1853, by way of German immigrant Henry Engelhard Steinway and his son in just discovered York City, one of the major center of the piano-making industry in North America at that time.
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