The life and times of Danny Lyons. This is mainly so my family can keep up with me and see pictures as I put them up.

Saturday, March 04, 2006

The competition program book

This is the program book for the entire piano competition, symposium, and music festival. I don't know if you can tell how thick it is, but it's a pretty big book that lists everything and everybody.

Here's the page showing my program for tonight. Dorian was pushing me to send in the program a long time ago, so to keep him happy I listed a ton of things (some of which I had not even learned yet and some of which I never did learn) and told him I would announce the program choices from the stage. So, this is showing a LOT more than I'm planning to play tonight. I'll do a fair amount of talking, too, as usual, and I'll have an interpreter. That will be a first for me, and I'm very interested to see how it will work. It's probably going to kill all my joke lines but maybe I can make a joke out of that, too.

This is my bio page in the program book.

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In concert

In concert

About Me

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Danny is the Steinway piano technician and head of the piano technology department of Dollarhide Music and Sound, specializing in tuning and rebuilding the Gulf Coast's finest pianos and harpsichords, including antique restoration of such historical pianos as the Steinway in the Mississippi Governor's Mansion and the 1850 square grand piano in the Oakleigh House in Mobile. Danny is the area's concert tuner for both the Mobile and Pensacola Symphonies, The University of West Florida, Pensacola Junior College, and numerous artist series throughout the area including the prestigious "Music at Christ Church" series. In his 32 year career as a piano technician, he has prepared pianos for the area concerts of numerous celebrities, including Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Hope, Izsac Perlman, Harry Connick, Jr., Barry Manilow, Roger Williams, Peter Nero, Lou Rawls, Garrison Keiler's "A Prairie Home Companion", and many others. In 2004 he was commissioned to rebuild a Steinway in Novi Sad, Serbia/Montenegro, and traveled there and spent a month in the country on that project. In 2006 he was invited back to Novi Sad as a solo handbell artist.