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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 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 Three Hommages: I. Hommage à Fauré on Music of Robert Helps by Robert Helps & Various Artists Valse Mirage on The Waltz Project Revisited by Eric Moe Trois Hommages: Hommage à Fauré 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 Piano Trio No. 1: I. Mesto on Contemporary American Piano Trios, Vol. 2 by Francesco TrioTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Festival Overture, Piano Concerto No. 2, Filling Station, Symphony No. 2 | Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Robert Helps, Virgil Thomson, Robert Kurka, Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller | 2003 | Album |
| But Yesterday Is Not Today, The American Art Song 1927-1972 | Samuel 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 Hassard | 1996 | Album |
| Piano Sonata No. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 3 /Fantasies And Impromptus | Randall Hodgkinson, Robert Helps - Roger Sessions / Donald Martino | 1995 | Album |
| The American Romantic | Alan Feinberg - Louis Moreau Gottschalk · Amy Marcy Cheney Beach · Robert Helps | 1990 | Album |
| Helps/Adams/Brief/Sessions | Christopher O'Riley - Robert Helps, John Adams, Todd Brief, Roger Sessions | 1990 | Album |
| The American Romantic | Alan Feinberg - Louis Moreau Gottschalk · Amy Marcy Cheney Beach · Robert Helps | 1990 | Album |
| Symphonies | Virgil Thomson / Robert Helps | 1980 | Album |
| Piano Piano Piano (Saccade / Metamorphosis / 3 Pieces For 4 Hands / 7 Short Works) | Robert Helps / Thomas Moore / Raoul Pleskow / Arthur Shepherd | 1978 | Album |
| Gossamer Noons / Odefonia | American Composers Orchestra, Gunther Schuller With Bethany Beardslee - Robert Helps / Marc-Antonio Consoli | 1978 | Album |
| But Yesterday Is Not Today | Samuel 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 Hassard | 1977 | Album |
| New Music For The Piano | Robert Helps | 1971 | Album |
| Music For Piano | Robert Helps | 1970 | Album |
| George Bennette, Pianist Plays The Preludes Of Messiaen, The Fantasy Pieces Of Del Tredici, And Portrait By Helps | George Bennette - Olivier Messiaen / David Del Tredici / Robert Helps | Album | |
| Schoenberg: The Book Of The Hanging Gardens, Opus 15 | Bethany Beardslee, Robert Helps | Album | |
| Schoenberg: The Book Of The Hanging Gardens, Opus 15 | Bethany Beardslee, Robert Helps | Album | |
| Sun Treader / Symphony No. 1 | Carl Ruggles, Robert Helps | Album |
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