Composer/pianist Timothy Crane presents a collection of his beautifully orchestrated instrumental piano pieces designed to
soothe and inspire the human spirit.
Timothy Crane is a composer and recording artist living near beautiful Denver, Colorado. From the time he started at the age
of five, playing the piano has been the most enduring part of Tim's life. In a way, he was born into it. Tim learned to play
on a piano that was handed down from his great aunt, who accompanied the silent pictures during matinees at the Jayhawk
Theater in Topeka, Kansas. The stories about that piano, a 100 year-old Knabe, and about his ancestors who played it, kept
Tim interested enough to practice when his friends and the weather tempted him to do otherwise.
Throughout high-school and college Tim played in a variety of local bands and also as a solo piano player. After college he
continued to play for public functions, private parties, and charitable events as a solo act and in a number of often oddly-
named musical groups. While living near Aspen, Colorado, he studied music theory and composition while playing each week for
his local church. "That was a wonderful time in my life," he says. "Still," he jokes, "an awful lot of the songs that I
played for offerings were pop songs that needed to be sanctified."
In the past two years, Tim has embarked on a new path in his music career -- recording his original music. This summer, Tim
released his first album, The Other Life I Dream, a collection of piano instrumental pieces with an orchestra background. He
continues to compose, and has recently completed writing the pieces that will form the core of his second album, Dragonfly.
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作曲家兼钢琴家蒂莫西·克雷恩(Timothy Crane)展示了他精心编排的乐器钢琴作品集,旨在抚慰和激励人类精神。
蒂莫西·克雷恩是一位作
曲家和录音艺术家,住在美丽的科罗拉多州丹佛市附近。从他五岁开始,弹钢琴一直是蒂姆一生中最持久的部分。在某种程度上,他是天生的
。蒂姆学会了弹奏一架钢琴,这架钢琴是他姑姑传下来的,在堪萨斯州托皮卡的杰霍克剧院(Jayhawk Theater)的日场演出中,阿姨一直在为
默片伴奏。关于那架钢琴的故事,一个有100年历史的无赖,以及他的祖先弹奏钢琴的故事,使蒂姆有足够的兴趣在朋友和天气的诱惑下练习钢
琴。
在高中和大学期间,蒂姆在当地的各种乐队中演奏,同时也是钢琴独奏手。大学毕业后,他继续在公共场合、私人聚会和慈善活动中担任
独奏,并在一些通常命名奇怪的音乐团体中演出。当他住在科罗拉多州阿斯彭附近时,他每周在当地教堂演奏时学习音乐理论和作曲。”“那
是我生命中最美好的时光,”他说不过,他开玩笑说,“我为献祭而演奏的很多歌曲都是流行歌曲,需要被神圣化。”
在过去的两年里,蒂姆
踏上了音乐生涯中的一条新路——录制自己的原创音乐。今年夏天,蒂姆发行了他的第一张专辑《我梦想的另一种生活》,这是一套以管弦乐
队为背景的钢琴器乐作品集。他继续作曲,最近完成了他的第二张专辑《蜻蜓》的核心部分的创作