Neil Sedaka Plays Chopin on "I've Got a Secret"

Wow.   Beautiful. He's quite an accomplished pianist. An interesting question and answer session precedes the music. (the pop song during the first few seconds is not so special - fortunately, it ends quickly)

Comments

[RR]

Very cool! I remembered reading once that Sedaka is actually Jewish- just checked on Wikipedia and indeed he is!

And here's what it says re. the competition in Moscow:

"Ironically, Sedaka's participation in the competition, which Van Cliburn had won in 1958, was soon cancelled by the USSR because of Sedaka's rock and roll music ties."

[Gail]

Ha, they ended up cancelling it? Fascinating.

Thank you very much for the information, RR.