A short track, mixing two piano pieces by Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou with part of the old Gershwin recording of Rhapsody in Blue, was given to a dj at KALX 90.7 & played last Sunday night. (Listen to it below) This prompted Mr Mary to twatt boldly about the supremacy of Guebrou's pianoing. Now I am all but against extreme assertions, especially across the tweetosphere, but with enough qualifiers, anyone is the world's best something. The folloing tweetologue followed:
OlafMary
TSEGUE-MARYAM GUEBROU IS THE BEST PIANO PLAYER EVER TO LIVE AND PLAY THE PIANO.
SSandrigon
@olafmary Who is the best never-to-have-lived Ethiopian piano player to have never played the piano?SSandrigon
I've been reading about Joseph Smith all day- - charismatic prophet & naughty naughty boy.SSandrigon
& sitting on the Berkeley campus, how young everyone looks: these girls are 6 yrs older than when polygs prefer them!!OlafMary
@SSandrigon I am.SSandrigon
@olafmary As one living non-ETHIOPIAN piano player to another, I am highly suspicious of that claim & you will have to prove it.OlafMary
@SSandrigon I accept.
We await both proofs. Now, who is this Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou? Several images of her I found seem to show her with a blue face. Here is the brief track played on KALX, bookended by her peculiar compositions.
Are they the finest piano pieces ever composed? She is in a crowded competition. Earlier on this WEBLOG, we heard one Father Basil Frison sing The Prayer of St Francis & play guitar. WFMU's Andrew Lander had earlier discovered him as another self-taught piano composer. 
Rev. Basil Frison - A Gondola In Venice 
Found at bee mp3 search engine 
Stay tuned at itwaslost.org while we listen to other iconoclast pianists in the pianosphere to evaluated Mr Mary's claim of Tsegue-Maryam's superiority.
April 01, 2009
Music Review: Bold Twotturgies
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