Shai Maestro
Piano Solo on
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

About

Shai Maestro closes out the solos on piano with a quarter of the form, following Linda May Han Oh at approximately 57 BPM. Set within a ballad setting, the 34-bar AABA' form and the key of C, the solo allows for nuanced, expressive phrasing. Coming last in the solo order, Maestro has the task of building on everything that came before while steering the performance back toward the closing head. Pianist Shai Maestro follows with his own quarter-chorus, his playing delicate and harmonically adventurous in equal measure. The ballad tempo allows the soloist to linger on each note, emphasizing tone and emotion.

Shai Maestro was 36 to 37 years old at the time.