Word: instruments
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...classical music enthusiast whose taste ranges from orchestral music to Gregorian chant. Blacklow says that his taste for the piano began as early as age two. When he picked out tunes on the family's instrument. He commenced with lessons at age six, and advanced to recitals and "master classes" at ten years...
Urged by his parents to learn to play an instrument, Tsang began playing the piano when he was six. He added the cello at age seven, inspired by a concert which his schoolteacher's son gave. "I fell in love with the tone of the cello," he says, adding, "Besides that, everyone was playing the violin...
...praised by Brahms, no longer has to cope with dunning tradespeople invading her house in a suburb of South London. Eldest Daughter Cordelia has finally given up the violin, much to the relief of her mother and siblings, who believe, as Rose, the narrator, says, that "to play an instrument badly was as shameful as any crime short of murder." Rose and her twin sister Mary practice the piano daily and dream of their futures on concert stages across Europe. The precocious little brother, Richard Quin, grows more charming, while Cousin Rosamund, withdrawn and beautiful, becomes effectively a member...
Stokowski had molded the orchestra into a peerless instrument that he controlled with finger-tip accuracy. Ormandy's achievement was not only to preserve Stokowski's legacy but, in some ways, to surpass it. He was no mere caretaker. If he lacked Stokowski's restless adventurousness in presenting modern music, he nevertheless championed new works by his contemporaries Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. If his scrupulously maintained low profile was the antithesis of Stokowski's flamboyant showmanship, he nevertheless insisted on a uniformly high performance standard, which can be heard on the hundreds of recordings he made with the Fabulous Philadelphians. Above...
Police said there were jimmy marks on the driver's side and windows of the car and cited the possibility that a "slim jim"--a device similar to the instrument used to open a car when the keys are locked inside--was used in the break...