Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piano had a standard keyboard−but it sounded like a muted xylophone. There was a zitherlike instrument that resembled an outdoor barbecue cooker. An unrecognizable assemblage of crystal rods, stroked by musicians with moistened fingers, emitted resonant whoops that fluttered through attached whiskers of piano wire. At San Francisco's Conservatory of Music last week, an audience of 150 was captivated by the sounds−and sight−of some of the newest and weirdest musical instruments on earth...
...when midnight rings down the curtain. Local libertarians are currently engaged in a full-scale attack on the Blue Laws, but in the meantime, just drink fast. The plush scenes are the Merry-Go-Round Room in the Sheraton Plaza Hotel, the Ritz Bar in the Ritz Carlton, the Keyboard Lounge in the Somerset Hotel and the Eliot Lounge in the Eliot Hotel...
...concert attended by the Soviet Premier, the Texas trebler dedicated Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor -'to Nikita Sergeevich." But Nikita, already hurrying backstage for a private dinner party with the toast of the town, was not in his box. Informed that Cliburn was still at the keyboard, he scrambled back to his place for the encores...
Died. Jesse Crawford, 66, paragon of U.S. theater organists, who rose from cornetist in a Seattle orphanage to the gilded consoles of the movie palaces' mightiest Wurlitzers without formal keyboard training, earned as much as $150,000 a year as the brilliantined virtuoso of the treacle-to-thunder style he called "the violets and Wagner stuff"; of a heart attack; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...woman suggested that the work for piano four hands-two on the keyboard (Lukas Foss) and two with mallets on the strings inside--be called "Murder in the Cathedral." In "Air Antique," cellist Howard Colf's delicate, ghostly left hand pizzicati held the audience literally gaping. Assisting countertenor Richard Levitt transformed his voice into a dazzling clarion in an improvisation on an Italian madrigal, "Dolcissima mia vita...