Word: baldwinism
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...nothing to do with race; of cancer; in Manhattan. Critical acclaim first came for her portrayal of an overintellectual college girl in A Raisin in the Sun, and she was consistently excellent as the leading lady in The Owl and the Pussycat, Tiger Tiger Burning Bright and James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charley, for which she received a Tony nomination in 1964. She won an Emmy the same year for the best single performance by an actress in a television series (East Side, West Side...
...Baldwin was continuing to produce concert instruments of indisputable excellence, and had indeed introduced in its Model SD-10 the most remarkable breakthrough in a century of piano manufacture. After all, only a piano as revolutionary as the SD-10 would have attracted artists like Byron Janis and Andre Watts...
JACK ROMANN Manager Concert and Artist Department Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. New York City...
...flat had been a second before. A week later at the University of Maryland, a bass A-flat flew off as I was finishing a Chopin sonata - they glued it back with hot epoxy during the break." Both instruments were brand new, one a Steinway, the other a Baldwin - the two makes whose pianos are used at 99% of all U.S. concerts...
...appears that everything this country makes today is not of the quality it was 50 years ago," sighs Jack Romann, artists manager of the Baldwin Piano Co. While Romann does not foresee a time when flying flats will be prized souvenirs, like Liszt's popped piano strings, he admits: "It would be naive to think that piano building hasn't suffered the same as other American crafts...