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Robert Helps

Robert Helps has been played on NTS shows including Slime w/ Little, with Preludes Pour Piano first played on 3 February 2020.

Robert Helps (1928-2001) 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.

Helps taught piano at the New England Conservatory of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Princeton University, Stanford University,…

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Handwork
Weingarden, Helps, Wolpe, Hibbard, Korte, Garrick Ohlsson
Bridge Records2012
Handwork
Weingarden, Helps, Wolpe, Hibbard, Korte, Garrick OhlssonBridge Records2012
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Preludes Pour Piano
George Bennette, Messiaen, Del Tredici, Helps
Desto0
Preludes Pour Piano
George Bennette, Messiaen, Del Tredici, HelpsDesto0
Discogs