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Robert Helps

p, 1928-2001 US
Musician / Composer of Classical

Robert Helps (b. Passaic, New Jersey, United States, September 23, 1928; d. Tampa, Florida, United States, November 24, 2001) was an American pianist and composer.He was one of the most distinguished pupils of Abby Whiteside and perhaps the most well-known practitioner of her theories of rhythm and of a technique directed from the humerus rather than the fingers. He studied composition with Roger Sessions, who exerted a strong influence on his career, and whose music he often performed and recorded. He cultivated a lifelong interest for Frédéric Chopin's Études as well as Leopold Godowsky's Studies on Chopin's Études which informed both his piano playing and his composition.

     
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Helps: Second Thoughts on Solo by Emmanuel Pahud
Hommage à Rachmaninoff on Gay American Composers by Various Artists
Hommage à Fauré on Helps/Adams/Brieff/Sessions by Christopher O'Riley
Three Hommages: I. Hommage à Fauré on Music of Robert Helps by Robert Helps & Various Artists
Love is a Sickness Full of Woes (arr. R. Helps for piano) on The Piano Music of John Ireland, Vol. 2 by John Ireland & Mark Bebbington
Valse Mirage on The Waltz Project Revisited by Eric Moe
Trois Hommages: Hommage à Fauré on The American Romantic by Alan Feinberg
Trois Hommages: Hommage à Rachmaninoff on The American Romantic by Alan Feinberg
Piano Trio No. 1: II. Molto marcato - Molto allegro on Contemporary American Piano Trios, Vol. 2 by Francesco Trio
Piano Trio No. 1: III. Maestoso on Contemporary American Piano Trios, Vol. 2 by Francesco Trio

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Discography



Title Artist Year Type
Festival Overture, Piano Concerto No. 2, Filling Station, Symphony No. 2Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Robert Helps, Virgil Thomson, Robert Kurka, Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller2003Album
But Yesterday Is Not Today, The American Art Song 1927-1972Samuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, Theodore Chanler, Israel Citkowitz, John Duke, Robert Helps, Roger Sessions / James Agee, Jane Bowles, E. E. Cummings, Leonard Feeney, James Joyce, Archibald MacLeish, Walter De La Mare, James Purdy, Edwin Arlington Robinson / Bethany Beardslee / Donald Gramm & Donald Hassard1996Album
Piano Sonata No. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 3 /Fantasies And ImpromptusRandall Hodgkinson, Robert Helps - Roger Sessions / Donald Martino1995Album
The American RomanticAlan Feinberg - Louis Moreau Gottschalk · Amy Marcy Cheney Beach · Robert Helps1990Album
Helps/Adams/Brief/SessionsChristopher O'Riley - Robert Helps, John Adams, Todd Brief, Roger Sessions1990Album
The American RomanticAlan Feinberg - Louis Moreau Gottschalk · Amy Marcy Cheney Beach · Robert Helps1990Album
SymphoniesVirgil Thomson / Robert Helps1980Album
Piano Piano Piano (Saccade / Metamorphosis / 3 Pieces For 4 Hands / 7 Short Works)Robert Helps / Thomas Moore / Raoul Pleskow / Arthur Shepherd1978Album
Gossamer Noons / OdefoniaAmerican Composers Orchestra, Gunther Schuller With Bethany Beardslee - Robert Helps / Marc-Antonio Consoli1978Album
But Yesterday Is Not TodaySamuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, Theodore Chanler, Israel Citkowitz, John Duke, Robert Helps, Roger Sessions / James Agee, Jane Bowles, E. E. Cummings, Leonard Feeney, James Joyce, Archibald MacLeish, Walter De La Mare, James Purdy, Edwin Arlington Robinson / Bethany Beardslee / Donald Gramm & Donald Hassard1977Album
New Music For The PianoRobert Helps1971Album
Music For PianoRobert Helps1970Album
George Bennette, Pianist Plays The Preludes Of Messiaen, The Fantasy Pieces Of Del Tredici, And Portrait By HelpsGeorge Bennette - Olivier Messiaen / David Del Tredici / Robert HelpsAlbum
Schoenberg: The Book Of The Hanging Gardens, Opus 15Bethany Beardslee, Robert HelpsAlbum
Schoenberg: The Book Of The Hanging Gardens, Opus 15Bethany Beardslee, Robert HelpsAlbum
Sun Treader / Symphony No. 1Carl Ruggles, Robert HelpsAlbum
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