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Twin cities piano prince steven c launches a 100-song 'yacht rock' collection.

Sitting on a dock at Bone Lake, pianist Steven C peered out at the sun-splashed pontoons and speedboats gathered in front of him. On this picturesque afternoon near Luck, Wis., his fingers glided across his electric keyboard sending "Summer Breeze" and other lite-FM hits to his nautical audience.

The veteran Twin Cities musician knows so many of these 1970s and '80s favorites that he just released a 100-song collection called "Yacht Rock Piano." That's right: 100 tunes. Five hours and 25 minutes of music.

"While sitting on Bone Lake watching the sunset, my girlfriend put on the Pandora yacht-rock channel and something hit me, between the sunset, the lake, the water and this music," said the prolific pianist. "I got a vision of four 25-song playlists. For some reason, I couldn't let that go. It was an obsession."

So he offers Little River Band's "Reminiscing," the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" and, of course, Christopher Cross' "Sailing," interpreted as piano instrumentals (sorry, no vocals).

Steven C — Steve Anderson to his family — is a prince of piano instrumental music, a categorization he prefers over New Age or easy listening. He has sold more than 2 million albums and chalked up millions of streams under his nom de piano. He's produced hundreds more records, many of them nature CDs formerly sold at push-button kiosks at Target. His music has been heard on "Oprah," "The Today Show" and the Discovery Channel, among other places.

"Yacht Rock Piano" arrives from Time Life , home of those late-night infomercials for oldies collections of "Malt Shop Memories" and "Ultimate Soul Ballads."

Even though it's teeming with memories and trivia (name that tune sans lyrics), the new Steven C collection is something of an outlier for Time Life.

"The theme and the nostalgia aspect really work for us, but it doesn't fall into the nice little round hole that we typically do with our releases," said Tom Hemesath, vice president of sales at Time Life. "I wasn't familiar with the concept of yacht rock, but Steven sent me some of the songs and they were just gorgeous how he reimagined them."

These aren't rote, Muzak-y renditions of hits by Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers and the like. Anderson slows down the tempo on "Takin' It to the Streets" and adds orchestration to "Sailing."

"If it was done like the song on the radio, it would be kind of boring," he said. "Sometimes I'll actually slow it down at the chorus, which is the opposite of what pop music does. ... It's a curveball."

But not one that will fool his audience.

"People don't tune into my music to rock out," Anderson said. "I think sometimes when you slow it down, you can find a new voice to it, a new beauty."

He's caffeinated, music isn't

Twin Cities keyboardist Tommy Barbarella, who has known Anderson for more than 30 years, understands the Steven C style.

"He plays a lot of high notes. It's the tinkly thing," said Barbarella, who has gigged with Prince, the Steeles and Nick Jonas. "It's very melodic. It's not too far out there or too aggressive. It's beautiful and simple enough for the non-musician to enjoy. It's what he's always done."

The mellowness of Anderson's music contrasts with his highly caffeinated personality. At 55, he's an ambitious dynamo who has served up more successful pitches than the Twins bullpen.

"He's such a hustler, always working," said Barbarella.

Hemesath has known Anderson since the 1990s, when they worked on those nature recordings. "When you sit down on a call with Steven, he puts his business hat on. He's an incredible musician but very, very smart businessman with a lot of ideas. I love his ideas."

The fast-talking Anderson does love his coffee, but "when it's time to play the piano, I morph into a different zone — decaf."

"I'm trying to cut off coffee at, like, 1 p.m.," he added.

Left piano on Summit Ave.

Having recently moved to Bone Lake, Anderson left his main instrument — a 9-foot-6, Austrian-made Bösendorfer, the Lamborghini of pianos — on Summit Avenue in St. Paul.

Before getting divorced, he lived in two different mansions on the celebrated street. His piano, purchased in 1996, now resides in the back dining room of a stately home where he rents space. He typically visits it thrice weekly: "It's just a little bigger commute."

Some of Anderson's "Yacht Rock" tunes are solo piano, some have light accompaniment and some are more heavily orchestrated.

"He wanted 'Sailing' to be his signature song, so I put more into it than some of the others, " said Barbarella, who arranged a handful of selections for Anderson and also arranges for Minnesota Orchestra pops concerts. "He gave me free rein. I love all those songs, too; they're on my all-time playlist. I know how he plays. I'm not going to take it in a super-jazz direction. It's easy listening with a little different spin."

Big in Texas

Growing up in St. Louis Park, Anderson started piano lessons at age 7 and earned a degree in piano and pipe organ performance at Hamline University. He plays every Sunday at Church of St. Joseph in West St. Paul and at the occasional wedding, funeral or private party. For five of the last six years (not in COVID-canceled 2020), he has presented free Christmas concerts at the Cathedral in St. Paul.

Despite what his piano teachers may have told him, Anderson no longer practices. "Maybe I should," he said with a self-deprecating chuckle. "I perform and I play."

His biggest "hit song" is "Daybreak," with more than 16 million streams.

"I have a lot of different music on a lot of different streams," he said. "With 'Daybreak,' that might equate to maybe $250 a month, which is a lot of streams when you're talking a fraction of a penny [per stream]. A lot of my contemporary Christian stuff does good on the streams."

Anderson gets demographic data from Pandora.

"I'm big in Texas," he said. "I never would have thought of that."

Time Life isn't offering CDs of "Yacht Rock Piano." It's strictly streaming for the business that used to be perceived as sort of an upscale K-tel. No longer affiliated with the book publishing house (that ended in 2001), Time Life still releases compilations and collections (coming soon: a six-DVD Dolly Parton set), but it also works with individual artists on new material.

With its Saguaro Road imprint, Time Life grabbed Grammys with records by the Blind Boys of Alabama and Patty Loveless. The company has handled projects by Joan Osborne, Angie Stone and even the Original 7ven , the latter-day resurrection of Minneapolis Sound pioneers the Time.

And now it has Steven C.

He has already launched into his next project: "Classic Rock Piano," with 100 songs including "Stairway to Heaven" and "Free Bird," expected for release later this year.

Anderson once dreamed of becoming as big as Yanni. Now he just grabs his portable piano and plays dock concerts.

"I was trying to become a household name — a rich and famous musician," he said. "I let go of that a whole bunch of years ago. 'Yacht Rock Piano' could flop, but I take so much joy in just creating it."

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Yacht Rock 311

Channel 311 Yacht Rock Radio celebrates the smooth-sailing soft rock from the late '70s and early '80s. You’ll hear artists like Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross, Steely Dan and other titans of smooth music. It's the kind of rock that doesn’t rock the boat!

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SiriusXM’s tribute to Yacht Rock celebrates the smooth-sailing soft rock from the late 70s and early 80s. You’ll hear artists like Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross, Hall & Oates and other titans of smooth music. It’s the kind of rock that doesn’t rock the boat!

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Dmitry Korchak (born February 19, 1979 in Elektrostal/Moscow Oblast) is a Russian tenor and conductor.

Korchak received his musical education at the Moscow Choral Academy. In 2004 he won prizes at the “Francisco Viñas” International Singing Competition in Barcelona and at the Plácido Domingo Operalia International Competition in Los Angeles.

As a singer he has appeared at La Scala in Milan, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, the Paris Opera Bastille, London’s Covent Garden and New York’s Carnegie Hall. He has collaborated with artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Plácido Domingo, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta and Kent Nagano.

From 2017 to 2020, Dmitry Korchak was Principal Guest Conductor at the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, where he directed his own festival, and Guest Conductor at the Mikhailovsky Theater in Saint Petersburg.

Korchak has made several guest appearances at the Kissinger Sommer, the Salzburg Festival and the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, where he also worked as a conductor. Korchak also worked with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, among others.

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Strange Glow Over Moscow Skies Triggers Panic as Explosions Reported

B right flashes lit up the night sky in southern Moscow in the early hours of Thursday morning, new footage appears to show, following reports of an explosion at an electrical substation on the outskirts of the city.

Video snippets circulating on Russian-language Telegram channels show a series of flashes on the horizon of a cloudy night sky, momentarily turning the sky a number of different colors. In a clip shared by Russian outlet MSK1.ru, smoke can be seen rising from a building during the flashes lighting up the scene.

Newsweek was unable to independently verify the details of the video clips, including when and where it was filmed. The Russian Ministry of Emergency situations has been contacted via email.

Several Russian Telegram accounts said early on Thursday that residents of southern Moscow reported an explosion and a fire breaking out at an electrical substation in the Leninsky district, southeast of central Moscow.

Local authorities in the Leninsky district told Russian outlet RBC that the explosion had happened in the village of Molokovo. "All vital facilities are operating as normal," Leninsky district officials told the outlet.

The incident at the substation in Molokovo took place just before 2 a.m. local time, MSK1.ru reported.

Messages published by the ASTRA Telegram account, run by independent Russian journalists, appear to show residents close to the substation panicking as they question the bright flashes in the sky. One local resident describes seeing the bright light before losing access to electricity, with another calling the incident a "nightmare."

More than 10 villages and towns in the southeast of Moscow lost access to electricity, the ASTRA Telegram account also reported. The town of Lytkarino to the southeast of Moscow, lost electricity, wrote the eastern European-based independent outlet, Meduza.

Outages were reported in the southern Domodedovo area of the city, according to another Russian outlet, as well as power failures in western Moscow. Electricity was then restored to the areas, the Strana.ua outlet reported.

The cause of the reported explosion is not known. A Telegram account aggregating news for the Lytkarino area described the incident as "an ordinary accident at a substation."

The MSK1.ru outlet quoted a local resident who speculated that a drone may have been responsible for the explosion, but no other Russian source reported this as a possible cause.

Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Moscow with long-range aerial drones in recent months, including a dramatic wave of strikes in late May.

On Sunday, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the region's air defense systems had intercepted an aerial drone over the city of Elektrostal, to the east of Moscow. No damage or casualties were reported, he said.

The previous day, Russian air defenses detected and shot down another drone flying over the Bogorodsky district, northeast of central Moscow, Sobyanin said.

There is currently no evidence that an aerial drone was responsible for the reported overnight explosion at the electrical substation in southern Moscow.

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