August 25 will mark the birth anniversary of conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), who is featured in the upcoming film Maestro starring Bradley Cooper. Although best known as a composer for larger works such as Broadway musicals like West Side Story, Bernstein also wrote chamber music and solo pieces primarily (and unsurprisingly) for pianists. One such work is the short Non troppo presto, sometimes alternatively entitled Music for the Dance No. 1, dating from 1937. Although only a little over a minute and a half, the "perpetual motion" aspect of it might make it tricky for Scott Drayco with his injured arm, but here it is played masterfully by Leann Osterkamp:
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