Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Robert DeGaetano" in English language version.
And that was the first time that I had been inspired to compose, because one night after dinner he said, "Why don't you write a song?"
The best of the eight works he offered was "The Challenger,"
Early pianos had wooden frames that couldn't stand up to aggressive playing. Pianists had to take care not to break strings or even the frame itself. But as the instruments got stronger, they could accommodate the great physical players like Liszt. For contemporary music, pianos need to have even greater resonance to go along with the louder and bigger sounds of our culture, like traffic noises.
