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Reality Bites Cafe

100 Main Street
Nyack, NY
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This event repeats weekly until Dec 31, 2009
Sophisticated Piano comes to Nyack with Broadway, Cole Porter, & Standards! Robert Hoover (Composer/Lyricist) of Haverstraw, NY has been performing professionally for over 40 years. A graduate of Mannes College of Music (composition studied with Norman Dello Joio), he has performed as a concert pianist in Europe and South America. In the U.S. Hoover performed the Schumann Piano Concerto at Town Hall, won first prize in the National Society of Arts and Letters competition, and made additio... (read more)

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Sophisticated Piano comes to Nyack with Broadway, Cole Porter, & Standards! Robert Hoover (Composer/Lyricist) of Haverstraw, NY has been performing professionally for over 40 years. A graduate of Mannes College of Music (composition studied with Norman Dello Joio), he has performed as a concert pianist in Europe and South America. In the U.S. Hoover performed the Schumann Piano Concerto at Town Hall, won first prize in the National Society of Arts and Letters competition, and made additional appearances at Town Hall, Steinway Hall and Carnegie Chamber. Other concerts followed in Europe and Central America. In 1988, he was invited to perform two concerts in his native Hungary.

He has appeared in upscale cocktail lounges in NYC entertaining audiences with his repertoire of over 300 Broadway, Film & Standards.

He composed and conducted “Sing out Sweet Land” for the Pearl River Bi-centennial Celebration and since has been commissioned to compose numerous choral, symphonic and piano compositions. Hoover is especially known for his classical piano arrangements of such favorites as Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers’ and other Broadway musicals. He has written the words and music to three original musicals produced in New Jersey and New York “FOREVER MISS”, “SPEAKEASY” and “A TALE OF TWO CITIES” which was performed at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center as part of its season. He has written and arranged numerous songs as well as staging and arranging cabaret acts for nightclub and stage performers in the tri-state Metro New York area.


He has recently completed a new musical, “BARABAS” He is also currently writing a Cabaret Show for NYC audiences.
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