Greg Burk, LA Weekly

David Troy Francis is a modern pianist. He’s performed Rachmaninoff on electronic keyboards. He’s about to record a CD of works by living American composers including Ned Rorem. His Pieces of My Childhood looks back on the hymns of his Southern Baptist childhood from an adult’s perspective: You hear nostalgia, beauty and inspiration, but you also hear re-imaginings, tinges of dissonance, complete reharmonizations behind simple melodies. Maybe a better word than modern is immediate - if he’s playing something, you know it means a lot to him right now. Tonight, in addition to the neoclassical music he’s known for interpreting, Francis will dig into Gershwin (Preludes and Rhapsody in Blue). Whatever he does, you’ll hear it in a new way. This is the first in a series of Tuesday-night piano performances at Rocco, and rather special in that you get to hear a concert pianist in a club setting”. (also Wednesday).