From www.georgerodrigue.com:

The Estate of George Rodrigue Releases Posthumous “Blue Dog” Print to Benefit the Louisiana State University School of Music and the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts

‘Take Five’ to be unveiled at The Cook Hotel Thursday, September 4th at private reception featuring the Rodrigue Steinway Piano

BATON ROUGE—On Thursday, September 4th the Estate of George Rodrigue will unveil a new posthumous print, Take Five, at a private reception at the Cook Hotel (3848 West Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge) from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. The silkscreen was designed by George Rodrigue before his passing on December 14, 2013 and has been printed posthumously in a limited numbered edition of 950. Following the unveiling, the print will be available for purchase at www.GeorgeRodrigue.com and in Rodrigue Studio locations in New Orleans’ French Quarter, Lafayette, and Carmel, California. The print is offered at a price of $500 with all proceeds supporting the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts (GRFA) and the LSU School of Music.

For more information or to purchase your copy of this print, please visit www.georgerodrigue.com.

“Tiffany”, the Blue Dog Steinway, made an appearance at the groundbreaking ceremony for the New Orleans Jazz Market, a 14,000 square foot facility dedicated to preserving and promoting jazz. Performances by Irvin Mayfield and Ellis Marsalis concluded the ceremony.

The Blue Dog Steinway was the last major project of the late Blue Dog artist George Rodrigue. Learn more about Tiffany at http://www.rodriguesteinway.com/ and view our gallery for more images of “Tiffany”.

Photos by Offbeat Magazine/Stephen Maloney. For more photos and information visit:

http://www.offbeat.com/2014/02/25/photos-new-orleans-jazz-market-groundbreaking-ceremony/

The grand conclusion of the Horowitz tour wraps up today with a special series of events at the Crowne Plaza in Baton Rouge Louisiana today.

Students, staff and members of the community gather for a very special opportunity to see, hear and play the legendary Horowitz Steinway concert grand. Steinway concert grand number CD-503 made a special appearance on stage at the Mary Danos Theater at Talbot Hall today as part of it continuing tour of the south east.

Hall Piano Company is a proud partner with Nicholls State University as Louisiana’s only public All-Steinway School.

Tonight we welcome an outstanding pianist, Andrey Ponochevny from Belarus, to Talbot Hall at Nicholls State University. This event continues the fabulous concert series at All-Steinway School Nicholls State University.

Selected performances from Mr. Ponochevny’s 2010 New Orleans International Piano Competition can be found in our video gallery.

We recently completed this custom player piano conversion on this amazing Steinway Model “M” baby grand.  Check out this fun video as we put the player through the paces!

The personal piano of legendary Vladimir Horowitz, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, has arrived at Hall Piano Company. On April 4th – 6th, you can have the chance to see, touch, hear and play on this unique instrument.

For more information, please visit our Horowitz Piano page.

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Tonight, we celebrate with our dear friends at Loyola University of New Orleans as they dedicate their new Steinway concert grand in Roussel Hall. To commemorate this special occasion, guest artist Fr. Sean “Brett” Duggan performed an amazing interpretation of the Bach Art of the Fugue. calculator salarii 2018 Father Duggan also prayed a special prayer of dedication over the new instrument that it may glorify God in the music that it will help create for generations. The new concert grand was a gift from an anonymous lead donor and a sponsorship gift from the Steinway Society of New Orleans.

Enjoy the music and the majesty as Andy Horbachevsky, VP of Manufacturing at Steinway, tells the storied history of the piano manufacturing facility and how NYCIDA helped the company modernize and stay competitive, all the while making it in New York City.

“(In New York City) you have the diversity of workforce, our employees come from all over the world, sons and daughters of immigrants, so it is much more than one little factory here in Long Island City.”
– Andy Horbachevsky, VP of Manufacturing, Steinway & Sons

Three amazing finalists from the 2012 New Orleans International Piano Competition perform…