Word: chopin
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Like many another piano student, she logged the requisite thousand hours before Carl Czerny's yellow-backed exercise books. But while Roberta Flack labored over knuckle-aching third and fourth finger trills, Rubina Flake-a daydream twin invented in early childhood-polished off Chopin concertos. At 13, Flack played the complete score of Handel's Messiah for her church choir. In her early 20s, she became a serious opera student. At that time Flake, presumably, was a diva at the Met. It came as no small blow then when Flack's vocal coach gently suggested...
...tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." Among the tools his father provided were a piano and a paintbrush, both of which were first taken up by Holder's older brother Boscoe. "From the beginning, I was high on Chopin and turpentine," says Geoffrey. He has studied none of his arts formally. Creativity, he explains, is mostly a matter of environment and exigency: "At Carnival, for example, every Trinidadian is a costume designer. I just grew up believing everybody could do everything...
Works by Haydn, Schoenberg, Schumann, and Chopin; Andrew Bonner, piano; Adams...
Works of Beethoven, Chopin, Franck, and Prokofiev; Carotine Edwards, violin, and Donald Kidd, piano; Eliot Library...
Works of Bach, Schubert, Bartok, and Chopin; Charles Fisk, piano; Quincy Dining Room...