Saturday, July 30, 2016

Ron Blustein's Well Tempered Clavier Synthesizer

An old friend of mine just surfaced, Ron Blustein. We were friends from residency days in the late 60's at SF General. In those days a bunch of us collected most nights at our house in the Mission District to listen to and make music.
Ron is a musical prodigy. He could pick up almost any instrument and play it with proficiency. Back then Indian music was all the rage. Ron got a sitar from somewhere and played it like Ravi Shankar. He could do anything.
We lost contact for t...he most part but Ron through the years has turned composer. He's done all sorts of stuff which can be played on a synthesizer, but most notably he has done a collection of 24 preludes and fugues in every key that are astounding to me. Of course famously Bach started this with the Well Tempered Clavier, but Chopin and Shostakovich also did it and now Blustein! Of course Bach did it twice.
For anyone interested I added a link to a sample.

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