Ferrante and Teicher
Grand Twins
These partners, introduced as “the grand twins of the twin grands,” have a career marriage bonded to music. It’s a career marriage with more harmony and endurance than many real marriages. They are national record holders with thirty-one years years together as a musical team, twenty-one gold records and now the release of their thirtieth Anniversary Album. Who Are They?
It’s Ferrante and Teicher at Wolf Trap, dashing, debonair, and delightfully cajoling.
From audience demand, they keep their theme song, “Theme From the Apartment” as part of every concert. Ferrante jokingly points out with relief that their theme song isn’t their swan song. “Exodus” is another included by popular demand. Other popular hit tunes of the sixty’s reaching the Top 40 charts—“Love Theme From One Eyed Jacks,” “Tonight,” and “Midnight Cowboy” were not included in this Wolf Trap performance.
Ferrante and Teicher from their “Sound of Music” medley to their closing “Salute to America” medley, shift easily in exchanging melody, harmony, and a steady bass rhythm. One minute Ferrante plays the sing along melody with Teicher playing a background bass rhythm. And the next minute they have changed with Teicher picking up the melody. Their transition is smooth, practiced, and precise with interpretive pauses.
They include their even popular “African Echoes” where they both pluck and strike the piano’s wire strings with the palm of their hands. The sound is much like a hybrid of guitar, harp, and bass fiddle echoing from a cave. Their practiced style and delightful cajoling leave echoes of their concert etched on my mind.
Sharon Kennedy The Review, August, 1985