11.   So there is an added appropriateness to a tour of a great American pianist with a great Russian orchestra performing these two pieces across America.

12.   Still, there are plenty of names on the list included solely because they really were great pianists who, fortunately, were captured on record.

13.   The great pianists from Mozart through Rachmaninoff were composers.

14.   The great jazz pianist played Bach when he was alone and wanted to reach, through music, a higher realm of understanding.

15.   But many in Australia, including Woodward, acknowledged internationally as a great pianist, believe the critics have missed the point by a mile.