Bill Snyder

Concert pianist gets a surprise from the past: One of her own compositions, performed in 1980, pulled from university archives for publication

It was 1980 and Katrina Krimsky prepared to perform at the Piano Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York. An accomplished, but at the time not widely known pianist, she launched into one of her own compositions, a 42-minute piece called “Soundscape.”  Years later, critics praised the difficult, somewhat esoteric compositions she performed that day, ...