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George Gershwin was at the keyboard one more time last week, banging out richly embellished versions of his pop tunes Swanee and Kickin' the Clouds Away. Though Gershwin has been dead for more than a half-century, his distinctive performing style has been preserved on nearly 120 player-piano rolls that he cut between 1916 and 1926. These virtuoso piano solos were never transcribed into sheet music, however. Since the demise of the player piano, the fragile paper rolls that hold the solos have been deteriorating on private collectors' shelves, unheard by generations of Gershwin scholars and fans...
Gershwin is not the only performer whose works could be computerized. Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Debussy also recorded piano rolls. But it was such keyboard acrobats as Gershwin and Zez Confrey, playing in the florid "novelty" style developed to boost player-piano sales, who were the stars of their day. Says Wodehouse: "This will open up an era of music that has been largely forgotten...
...Neil, Lewis' roommate, remembers the first time he saw the champ's fingers fly across the keyboard...
February 8: A wall is not just a wall; it is an intricately assembled puzzle. My keyboard broke this morning, and I thought for a while it was all over, but luckily my neighbor has the IBM version of TETRIS. And what's more, it's in color! I think I see a new direction in my life...
February 7: I am taking a brief break to send my mother flowers to make up for missing her birthday yesterday. I am concerned that the "K" key on my keyboard has been sticking ever so slightly for the last four or five hours--I hope it won't impair my progress...