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Uncluttered Style. The selections were drawn from a repertory of more than 300 pieces, many by Composer Lewis, whose uncluttered keyboard probings set MJQ's style. Lewis etched an outline of Sigmund Romberg's Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise. One by one, cued only by instinct, his colleagues joined him: the genial Heath, eyes closed, his fingertips lightly brushing the strings, while Kay, the pulsemaker, fabricated a succinct beat ornamented by miniature percussive effects-rippling wind chimes. Jackson's keyboard work at the vibes, reminiscent of Art Tatum's quicksilver piano, provided the melodic keystone...
...Alcohol," undoubtedly the highlight of the first part, provided the perfect outlet for Davies's strong attachment to the music hall/vaudeville traditions of his youth. The song was introduced in a quasi-puritanical manner, in which Davies warned the world against the imminent dangers of demon alcohol, while keyboard man John Gosling tinkled the ivories in such a fashion as to mock good-naturedly the somber scenario Davies tried to conjure up. The song's crapulous ambiance was supported by the sluggish, drawn out tempo of the Dixieland horn section and Davies's possibly unintentional slurring of the lyrics...
...Mazurkas and the Ballade in G-Minor. Few pianists alive execute Chopin's notes with the grace, precision and bravura of Horowitz. It was astounding in the midst of one set of prodigious figurations after another to hear the melody seem to float up like mist from the keyboard. Horowitz does everything for Chopin except take him seriously as a dramatic innovator. The G-Minor Ballade, for example, is one of the composer's most original and powerful creations. Yet Horowitz turned it into a series of episodes; it was like hearing alternately an Impromptu, Nocturne and Etude...
...Korean restaurant at the Seattle World's Fair and running a mushroom plantation. Their mother loved music, and each child began piano lessons by five. The children agree that they immediately took to music, if not to the piano. Myung-Wha used to fall asleep at the keyboard until one day her mother turned up with a cello and a cello teacher. "I had never heard a cello," she recalls. A year and a half later, at eleven, she became one of the first people in Korea to perform publicly a cello solo. An uncle brought five-year...
...recognize Jeff Gardner's name unless you're in his Boston University graduate music class, but his own jazz creations or his refreshing Thelonius Monk interpretations would be confined to the afterhours keyboard if not for the Reflections showcase James provides for him tonight...