Here you will find links to magazine and mass media advertising, reviews of his recordings and live performances, copies of interviews he has given, and descriptions of some of his own compositions.
 

Contemporary Music

An artist has a duty to play the music of his time and his country.  Even a cursory scan of his recordings would show that Pennario has discharged this duty admirably. On his very first record he performed Prokofiev's Visions Fugitives. A work by a still living composer which had never been recorded before.
This theme will recur throughout his career. He was the first, other than Rachmaninoff himself, to record all four of the composer's piano concertos. He was the first to record several of Miklos Rozsa's works. He was the first to record Gottschalk. Not only that, he uncovered previously uncataloged works of Gottschalk in the Library of Congress and recorded them.
Ravel was as close in time to Pennario, as John Lennon is to someone born in the 60's. Pennario was the first one to discover, play in public, and record Ravel's piano version of La Valse. For many years it was a "signature piece", his alone. No one else had the nerve to play it. He played contemporary pieces, and he brought to their performance the same artistic integrity that he brought to Chopin, Liszt, Scarlatti, and Beethoven.

Classical Repertoire

His concerts were always given with the audience in mind. Accordingly he programmed Beethoven, Scarlatti, Brahms, and Mozart along with the Romantic and Contemporary pieces. The Brahms I have enjoyed the most in live performance was when Leonard played the three intermezzi.
Nothing was beyond him, technically or artistically; he has given his last performance; the records and CD's do not compensate for the lack. I miss him.