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Richard considers music to be quite literally his salvation, providing the only escape from occasional isolation and poverty. Starting with recorder and flute, he went on to study piano at the late age of 16. Fortunately, he found inspiration and guidance in his mentor, the late Robert Sheldon, who he found through the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and with whom he pursued intensive study in piano performance
and interpretation for over a decade. Sheldon was a student of the revered Egon Petri, one of the last century�s greatest pianists, who also provided a direct link to the grand masters Ferruccio Busoni and Franz Liszt.
After living in Spain for several years and in England and France for shorter periods, Richard finally settled in the Bay Area in 1981. He has worked as a soloist, ensemble player and accompanist, has produced many concerts and in 2002 completed his third CD release, his second CD of improvised
compositions. His first book, �The Performing Pianist, a Pocket Primer� was printed in its first edition in the summer of 2002.
In 2003 Richard co-produced a two-disc set of Ragtime recordings for a Bay Area pianist and prepared a new edition
of the virtuosic posthumous masterpiece �Navarra� by Isaac Alb�niz. In 2003 his composition �Nocturne� was selected for
use in an independent film �The Savant� by the film�s producer and director. In 2004 Richard contributed custom audio
effects for the film using piano harmonics and other techniques and scored the music for submission to A.S.C.A.P.
Richard�s education includes Montessori pre-school, many years of alternative schooling and tutoring, private music
lessons, as well as traditional music training in New Haven Connecticut, Sussex, England, City College of San Francisco, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Future projects Richard is planning include new compositions and concerts, repertoire recordings and ongoing experiments with improvisation as well as investigating music as a force for
both physical and spiritual healing.
Reviews
The Foot Fist Way (2006)
How awful to make a bad indie comedy. So bad they got picked up by HBO for another project.
Offensive. Bad. So terrible they landed 4 seasons of Eastbound and Down on HBO.
Too much profanity. Girlfriend not hot enough. Not enough acting.
It's not like its their first project (oh, wait, was it?). Why give these Hollywood types (oh wait, are they?) the time of day or more money to make another (oh wait...)
It's not like the lead, McBride, is one of 2 or 3 writers on this show and the other (oh wait...)
I've read some positive comments about how people have run into this sort of martial arts instructor in real life. So, their research on the character isn't terrible.
All the very bad reviews here show why most can't see past the flaws, to what a brand-new team doing something very original is capable of.
Thankfully bad reviews are a dime a dozen and sometimes aren't enough to kill other projects.
Its 2 thousand fifteen, people. A bad indie comedy isn't a tragedy, and a first project can be treated with a bit more kindness.