PIANO PUZZLERS

2022-23 is the 20th anniversary of Piano Puzzlers on public radio. Performance Today, hosted by Fred Child, has featured Bruce Adolphe's Piano Puzzlers weekly since 2002. Bruce plays a familiar tune disguised in the style of a Classical composer and contestants call in to name both the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is imitating. Often the puzzlers are mashups of a well- known tune and a particular Classical piano piece - such as Eleanor Rigby and an intermezzo by Brahms or They Can't Take that Away from Me and a Prokofiev piano sonata. You can listen to 45 Piano Puzzlers played by seven wonderful pianists only on this site. The weekly radio broadcast/podcast is available from Your Classical... Click on a pianist to learn more and to see a list of the tracks they performed... It was a dark and stormy afternoon, way back in my teenage years, with friends huddled around the piano, when I first discovered that I could get laughs by improvising in the styles of such musical..