Frank French and Scott Kirby join forces on two pianos for this distinctive collection of French-American and Latin-American-influenced works. From Gottschalk to Jelly Roll Morton, this recording follows a musical thread that connects 19th century Haiti, turn-of-the-century New Orleans and present day Cuba. -- The Boulder Daily Camera call French and Kirby "...pioneer practitioners of this art." About The Company: The recordings of Viridiana Productions, L.L.C. represent a grass roots movement designed to promote the new music Terra Verde, as well as various traditions from which it draws. Terra Verde, a contemporary and distinctly American musical art form, fuses elements of European romanticism with New World ethnic styles, such as ragtime, jazz, Latin-American and country.The result is a rich and vital language for our time, and a new stage in the evolution of piano-based composition. Viridiana exists to champion the composers and performers of Terra Verde, and to pay tribute to the innovative and sometimes unheralded forerunners to this exciting new realm of American music.