My dad passed away in 1989 and my Mom pretty much gave up on life, She was never one to ask for much but one day when I was over there and she mentioned how much she liked Liberace. Did a bit of research and found he was playing at Radio City Music hall in a few weeks. I called around and one of the tickets agencies I called has two tickets, 2nd row, just off center. I know this was something she never had so I bought them. We walked in that night and it was already kind of full, showed my tickets and I said Come on Mom. And we just keep walking and walking and walking. I was never a Liberace fan but I was sold that night what a show that guy put on. The look on her face, I will never forget that night.

@stellertonybeller1972

Жыл бұрын

Liberace died in 1987 so did you go see him in 1986

@BB-dh6sw

Жыл бұрын

Guess I messed up on the dates, hat being said, it was some date in the past. Story stands. ;)

@demispano

Жыл бұрын

😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤

@carolecarr5210

Жыл бұрын

You, my dear, are what all sons should be. You no doubt had two marvelous parents. Glad you liked Lee, definitely an incredible entertainer.

@babasheeny3634

Жыл бұрын

A lovely memory for Yur Mom AND you❤️

He always played Without any sheet music, and fantastically at that. The guy had have been an incredible genius.

@SuperRonor

Жыл бұрын

I have always noticed that too... not a trace of anything.. He was indeed a living legend!!

@slevemcdichael3712

7 ай бұрын

You dont need a script and when you love what you do

I've been making music for nearly 65 years. Anyone can say what they like, this is simply stunning. Music is supposed to be for love, and this is.

No one can deny he was the greatest piano showman to date.

Liberace was the consummate showman, but he was also a masterful pianist, which a lot of people don't want to give him credit for. It's not that he was incapable of playing the music as transcribed, he was playing Liberace's piano. If nothing else, he did more to popularize classical and romantic era music with the masses than looney tunes. Even now when I hear Chopin's Heroic Polonaise I think of Liberace.

Liberace was a great pianist but an even better human being.

That opening piece has to be one of my favorite classical pieces by any composer Chopin being one of my favorite. He picked a good one to start with for sure

@donnablankenhorn5905

Жыл бұрын

That is my favorite, also!! It was played throughout the movie "The Eddie Duchin Story".

@mrkitty777

Жыл бұрын

I recommend 'A Song To Remember 1945 Chopin Biography' it's what Liberace is playing and why he has his piano modified after watching that movie.

The tears just well up when i hear him play, he was so blessed with this beautiful talent, he was such an amazing human being and deserves such deep respect, no matter what!

@User12345fan

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely the talent, not sure he was an amazing human being with his grooming reputation.

@daveeol1987

2 жыл бұрын

@@User12345fan please elaborate

@ddz1375

2 жыл бұрын

Absolute agreement with you

@Thilindel

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveeol1987 amazing talent, yes. amazing person?! erm, you've not seen his biography with his pedophilic tendencies - Behind the Candelabra

@ricarellan

2 жыл бұрын

@@User12345fan True fans don’t care about his private life - he was flawed just like you and I. All that mattered was his talent and how gracious he was toward his fans. Decades after his death, he is still loved.

Great pianist! By the way, it takes some serious talent, and skills to be able to play that flawlessly, with all those Big Ass Rings in all your fingers. Kudos to him. The one and only, Liberace!!!

@VKeyz3

3 жыл бұрын

Why is this guy so respected?! All he ever did was play other peoples music. He's a rank amateur who was given acclaim REAL piano players deserved. Pure trash.

@parcirecords

3 жыл бұрын

and without any score to look he did out of his head! ..

@jamest4659

3 жыл бұрын

@@VKeyz3 There is always the naysayer.

@VKeyz3

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamest4659 fuck liberace he never created shit he was famous for playing other people's shit he's a biter an old school puff daddy

@Tocsin-Bang

2 жыл бұрын

@@VKeyz3 you clearly don't realise that most of the popular music he played were his own arrangements and improvisations. BTW where are your videos, I bet you sound like you play with yours feet! Wow just watched one of your videos and I was right!

Even now at 2023, his talent shows still memorizes the audience! Such a great talent we had among us!

Liberace was an incredible pianist and entertainer!

A great pianist as well as a great entertainer.

I was fortunate enough to see him at Radio City Music Hall in the mid 1980’s. What a show!! He was a great entertainer.

@ceciliapreziose3783

2 жыл бұрын

me too and on long island. I bought his albumns

He made it look SO easy...what a GIFT he had...so beautiful a talent!

If you watch Liberace with that magnetic smile , and listen to the words and music he felt compelled to tell the public .... you will find your meaning to life .....or at least be inspired some way to create a life you are proud of . I find Liberace enthusiast are quite a creative breed that just need a little inspiration in the boredom of societies norms today . Cheers to anyone enjoying this fantastic video !

A Fabulous Entertainer and a really nice Person

I'm 71 and when I was 5, Liberace had a morning show on television. I would pretend that I was a ballerina and would dance all over our living room while Liberace played the piano. My mother was inspired and she took me any my sister to dance school twice a week for six years. It was good for us, we learned grace and movement. We did not become dancers but it was still a confidence building activity. Loved his piano and harp!

So enjoyed his fantastic piano playing

There will only be one Liberace. What a talent. What a showman. ❤

I heard that Chopin once told one of his students he gave him permission to play his music any way he wanted to. I think he would have loved this. I'm part Polish if I don't get a few tears each day, I feel I'm not alive. This brought me my few tears today. Lovely.

@nycbbbco

5 жыл бұрын

I am with you very step of the way-well put- thank you!

@ashishthomas5562

4 жыл бұрын

Referring only to dynamics, articulation, and to some extent phrasing. When Liszt added ornaments and cadenzas Chopin asked the former not to play if he could not play as written.

@arie4011

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashishthomas5562 chopin also hated alot of rubato and not sticking to the correct rhythm

@ashishthomas5562

2 жыл бұрын

@@arie4011 rubato he was liberal with as far as the right hand goes. The left he believed must have very strict tempo. Definitely with a mazurka or something the rubato should be less even in the right

He is trually a great classical pianist with excellent piano technique and powerful performing style!

Incredible!! I just hope he knew he was fantastic & had a great life. World is so cruel, at times☹️😓

He brought pieces of the classics to "the masses" which he is to be commended for. I never heard him play as a concert pianist, which I know he did in his younger years, so I don't know what his style was when doing them in full. Give the man credit for trying to bring such music to those who either would not, or could not, attend concerts by concert pianists.

@albertpeterson5585

2 жыл бұрын

...there are copies available elsewhere on KZread of his 1950's show where he would play the classics "straight" (pardon the term); perfect technique.

Finally the piano met it's match!!!! Genius!!! A gift from God like an Elvis Presley Jerry Lee Lewis Micheal Jackson etc. I could go on and on. They just don't make them like that anymore. So sad. Rip Liberace. Boy does heaven have a heck of a band by now!!!! God bless everybody and stay safe.🤗🤗🤗

My mother just loved Liberace ❤ 💕 ♥

Chills still in 2022. I missing my mother just passed. She played similar. We all grew up loving his music & all the bling

He is amazingly a great pianist of all time.

He gives his heart and soul in every note and never holds back you were indeed the true showman thank you Lee for your wonderful talent rip

Every year I love this man just a bit more. RIP

Beautiful!

Probably the best pianist and showman the world has ever seen. You could listen to him play all day.

@scheneizel4823

2 жыл бұрын

Horowitz is the best

@DrOlds7298

Жыл бұрын

@@scheneizel4823 Cliburn was no slouch,either?

For those that don't think Liberace was a great pianist....if you really know your music; listen to the parts (rare), where he is playing the original composer's music as it was written, without the Liberace flair. Great interpretation and execution!

I think we’re lucky of living in a time where everybody can see everything on the internet (that’s how I first saw Liberace because I was born in Gen Z). Despite that, I feel like I “miss” the 70s and 80s and I’m sad that those times are over... I play the piano and I got immediately inspired after I first saw Liberace. I think that his style, his music and his extravaganza was a trademark for those times and I’m of the opinion that it’s a shame that he is not as much remembered as he should be. Liberace was half polish and his favourite composer was Chopin. I’m polish and I think that every polish person who has a soul understands what Chopin really means to him... a lot. Speaking of Chopin, in Liberace’s Chopin Medley, there’s a part I can’t identify with a beautiful melody right after the Heroic Polonaise. Is it an actual Chopin piece or is it Liberace’s composition? Anyways, Liberace is missed but Las Vegas misses him the most...

@olympia2252

3 жыл бұрын

Homie spittin mad facts

I am admittedly a snob who likes my music "straight up," but if Liberace was indeed able to instill a love of classical music in others, I give him a lot of credit as an ambassador. I did enjoy listening to and watching this video -- thank you for posting.

@tiamia7139

5 жыл бұрын

He was very funny and a "trip", but a great pianist...🤢

@paulanthony5274

5 жыл бұрын

That's a beautiful story Val thankyou

@factcheckerchannel1947

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I know what you mean. I play Chopin's Nocturne basically straight up...AS IT WAS WRITTEN (like 99%). Whereas Liberace (though greatly talented) JAZZES OR IMPROVISES THINGS UP A LOT...in HIS OWN STYLE AND WAY...with musical pieces.

@enigma19833

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry John E, Liberace also liked it "straight up," if you get my drift.

Absolutely fantastic! What a talent!

There really isn't anything in words that can really describe the absolute pleasure of being able to draw so much satisfaction in life when watching and listening to Liberace play. He was a genius and I am so happy to have shared some of the 'time slot' allocated to both our existences..

My father loved playing this piece! Thank you for the share. ❤

He loves to play piano! I love to watch/listen to him play! Thank you for posting this♡ 🎶 Liberace forever♡

Magnificent!

Loved him since I was a very young child in the 50s.

I grew up seeing him play and I was mesmerized by his beautiful talent 💕 and my eyes were always glued to those iconic rings he wore 👏👏👏👏🌠

He's my dad's fav piano artist🥰 and I always played his LP to my dad's turntable when I was young🙂

So beautiful, so thrilling performance, Chopin was a great Polish composer and Liberace was a very talented pianist :) Such a loss, that in Poland we didn't know much about Liberace when he was alive

@nunctecognovi

6 жыл бұрын

His relatives on the mother's side were from Poland.

@RPaz-vf4px

5 жыл бұрын

Chopin, Poland's pride.

@banumathi8684

5 жыл бұрын

Chopin Poland's pride

@factcheckerchannel1947

3 жыл бұрын

Liberace was half Italian half Polish. So he means something to Italians too. (By the way, "Liberace" is an Italian name.)

@lkctom2546

3 жыл бұрын

Because of homophobia?

He is a wonderful pianist, and that is also a wonderful piano.

@andersonpianoservice

4 жыл бұрын

He always performed on a Baldwin piano. It’s too bad the company has gone out of business.

Marvelous performance

Liberace was a Musical Genius..

This is exquisite. Wow! 🤯😍🎹👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I remember watching his program on tv with my parents when I was a child way back when. I learned to love classical music through him. On the other hand, he seemed to be a very kind man with a great smile.

@abbyscott9819

5 жыл бұрын

Very beautiful!!

@janblackhurst1652

4 жыл бұрын

I also used to watch his show. Loved the music and the fun he had with it. Love watching his fingers fly over the keyboard. And Chopin is also my favourite composer.

@babasheeny7023

4 жыл бұрын

Wohletz cheryll....yes i also watched his tv show. Always loved him and his wonderful music. Never be another!!

Beautiful music .......beautiful artist.

ICON FOREVER ♾️✨❤🎉🎉🎉 PHILADELPHIA USA❤

He really puts his heart and soul into this performance bravo!

Magic after all these years! Never gets old never goes out of fashion he was talented and that glittered beyond any costume that entertained in the non musical interludes! 💖👍💐💐💐👏👏👏

The best The memories❤️

Watching intently, digging the music, then the camera pans out and there's like a 100-piece orchestra behind him. Wow.

Magnificent!!!!!!!!!

the greatest interpreter of Chopin the most romantic

Absolutely superb 👍

Perfection

I’m almost 80 years old and I remember watching his television show back in the early 1950’s. I was maybe 10 and starting playing a coronet at 8. So I fell in love with his style of music and have been a major fan ever since. I learned quite a few classical songs listening to him every week. I wanted to play the piano but my fingers are to short. So here I am humming along with Chopins’ music at my age. You’re never to old to appreciate music, the universal language.

cant and never will understand why people put a thumbs down on such a great pianist ! i just ;love his interpretation of the classics ! so beautifully arranged! so i wonder WHY those 25 people put a thumbs down!

@banumathi8684

5 жыл бұрын

Some people thought that it was a download button bruh

@sdimas73

5 жыл бұрын

The same people will "thumb up" on a video of a dog poo !.

@banumathi8684

5 жыл бұрын

@Val O'Brien nice to hear

@ashishthomas5562

4 жыл бұрын

@Val O'Brien I'm sorry

@jayneholdsworth5608

4 ай бұрын

Seeking attention if you don't like him keep it to yourself

I started to learn piano and now I can't help but see this man as a God. No sheet music... I mean. What a guy !

He had a God given Gift that He shared with The World.A Master Of The Art.Amazing memory..Genius.

@tiamia7139

5 жыл бұрын

Chopin was a true genius. Liberace was NOT. He was a talented pianist but a showman. If you studied piano and classical music for many years, have a trained ear, and attended dozens and dozens of concerts of truly great pianists for 60+ years, you would know the DIFFERENCE between the flamboyant, cringeworthy keyboard banging of a sequined, Las Vegas showman, and the true artistry and genius of piano masters such as Cliburn, Horowitz, Rubenstein, Gould. Apples and oranges!

@afriendlymusician3829

4 жыл бұрын

@@tiamia7139 Yeah, but you should also appreciate the fact that he brought our art to many people who have never heard it before.

@tiamia7139

4 жыл бұрын

@@afriendlymusician3829 "Art"? He was a pianist of some talent, but not of the caliber to sustain a concert career. So he combined corny shtick and a flamboyant style of playing into a lucrative career for audiences who wouldn't know the difference. He may not have been a musical genius but he was very effective at marketing himself as an entertainer. Personally, his playing makes me cringe.

@afriendlymusician3829

4 жыл бұрын

@@tiamia7139 His playing is cringy, but he still was able to introduce music to people through his marketing and flamboyancy.

@sophieseeker6620

2 жыл бұрын

@@tiamia7139 how bitter you are....jealouse ?

I've heard one or two people say that he was a good Pianist but not a great one,I think that performance proves them wrong.

@paulanthony5274

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethandeister6567 Yes,good point!

@pabloduarte1722

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm dont know, he plays the notes right but he lacks emotion and he plays with an autentic interpretation i guess but is not really Chopin-friendly 😅

@jennygee8894

2 жыл бұрын

Mum loved him,so do i,he made the piano talk!💯🏆🥇🏆🙏👑

@paulanthony5274

2 жыл бұрын

@@pabloduarte1722 Nuts

@donkgated8074

Жыл бұрын

This recording proved them wrong indeed - technically it's rough playing. But who cares, that's not the intention - it's unique, and great entertainment and showmanship.

The one and only!

Nothing but love Lee❤️❤️❤️❤️

His playing is absolutely fantastic. You dont see talent like that anymore the kids listen to this low rap music which isn't even music . His playing is so uplifting. I hope more young people will be inspired by this.✌

He presses keys quite hard. Yet has never destroyed nor shaken a piano to bits.

Totally heartbroken when he died... I will always love him

@sarahwilson5468

5 жыл бұрын

Same here...

@banumathi8684

5 жыл бұрын

Yes same here

@ashishthomas5562

4 жыл бұрын

He died in 1849...

@susankeating8678

4 жыл бұрын

Ashish Thomas 😂😂😂

@MeME-cw6pc

4 жыл бұрын

Chopin?

This man was a great showman and musician.. personally I think Chopin would have loved his rendition

@sarahwilson5468

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure he would've

@frederickbulsara8141

5 жыл бұрын

liszt was a show person and chopin hated when liszt took liberties with the music

@jaybeeshultz

5 жыл бұрын

@@frederickbulsara8141 Knew the personally, eh?

@Irene-iu9sj

5 жыл бұрын

@@frederickbulsara8141 I know exactly the opposite. Chopen was not so good pianist,List was a phenomenon,Chopen wanted List to play his compositions.And List admired Chopen ,who was older by some years.

@evankoebler3020

5 жыл бұрын

@@Irene-iu9sj chopen and list. yes

My late mothers favorite composer,and one of her two favorite pianists. (The other one was Van Cliburn)

His rings are so beautyfull

Absolutely awesome

@tiamia7139

5 жыл бұрын

No...

Liberace & Lola Astanova

He was fabulous at the piano ❤

Haha never thought of playing that finger-twisting passage (towards the end of the E-flat Nocturne)by dividing with two hands. Good visual, effective stage presentation

@michellecurtis195

3 жыл бұрын

Caught my attention too, beautiful visual and audial experience.

@stephenn77

4 ай бұрын

I gotta try it!! 😂

He's the best there is I would love to have just one of those diamond rings love him❤

Omg I miss and love this played to me ttt24

I don't even care for classical music, but I enjoy listening to him play it. The man had showmanship and a one of a kind pianist. And a one of a kind talent. So all you that have stupid and nerve to put him down because of his live style bigots. I am straight, a mother of 2 and I don't believe in his live style. But I will not judge him for it.

@Tabish29

6 жыл бұрын

Infinite Architect yea ai8 Hagee

@hannahwilliams4587

6 жыл бұрын

Infinite Architect If being in heaven meant having to share the same space as you I would rather be in hell....

@mw7584

5 жыл бұрын

@Infinite Architect Judge not lest ye be judged.

@mw7584

5 жыл бұрын

@Infinite Architect Your rather pompous aren't you. I don't detect any semblance of kindness in your heart. Calling fellow brethren stupid etc . That simple verse is beyond you apparently!

@olivelane7903

4 жыл бұрын

I keep saying this but it keeps getting erased Liberace film behind the candelabra 70%untrue film about Liberace called behind the music 90%true to. Get this dvd phone 01624677237

Excelente Liberace

My goodness. I would loved to have had talent like Lee had. Sadly I cannot play a musical instrument

Never any sheet music he rememberes them all what pure genius

Just hear this beauty and temember my dear mother and father its only one thing.

No one has come close

It's amazing none of those rings fell off🤲🏾

most beautiful. miss my friend.

How beautiful !! ✌

The giftest pianist of all time! All by heart with his speziell variations. Just e genius! 3:30

Top classic entertainment

He started young in life A child prodigy!

A master improviser was Liberace

Wish we had him today!

Excelente, Liberace geniaĺ ! Interpreta a los grandes músicos sin partituras, sólo con su alma es una maravilla ! Es fascinante ! ❤❤❤❤❤

Bravo! Bravo ! i love you ....Iluminado Liberace ♥...

Wouaw !! Great Liberace

Just fabulous !!! His Polish ancestors must've been inhaling same air as Fryderyks' folks

What a guy! and to play with all of those rings...

@eppiehemsley6556

5 жыл бұрын

It is said that he had more rings than Saturn. Certainly a heavenly performer.

@cymbala6208

3 жыл бұрын

@@eppiehemsley6556 😅

Liberace por siempre en nuestros corazones. Respeto total desde Ciudad de México.

It is hard enough to play Chopin as it is...but to do it with those heavy rings on his fingers is even more amazing Nice to see that this Las Vegas performer and showman could actually play serious classical music for real I hated the disgusting Michael Douglas movie about him which focused instead on his salacious private life in order to embarass and unjustifiably discredit him

@sprintbass

5 жыл бұрын

well it was Scott thorsons book written in 88 that it was based off of... I grew up at the NC school of the arts and my dad is a phd in music and went to Julliard...I was in orchestra. Back in 80s I knew there were some gay students and teachers...but that wasn't even a point to think about...no one talked about it...I think the movie could have been done better....and I don't think Douglas was a good pick..he didn't look or sound like Liberace to me..

@corey10418

5 жыл бұрын

That was the first thing that crossed my mind too.

@sarahwilson5468

5 жыл бұрын

I SO agree about that movie! I used to watch Liberace on TV every Sunday evening...

@zennabella1676

5 жыл бұрын

I WOULDNT WATCH IT BECAUSE I HEARD IT HAS OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE IN IT. THAT PUT ME OFF.

@sebastienbedard411

5 жыл бұрын

@@zennabella1676 You should watch the movie, it's really good.

fantabulous

Thank you KZread