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Picture a concert pianist of great technical skill whose fingers race across the keyboard like a riptide. Suddenly his face turns soulful, as if he were attempting to hang each note in the air like a snowflake. With a brisk, dryly ironic flourish he brings the composition to its close. But through the entire piece, the instrument has been soundless...
...that have made him the leading figure among Britain's younger pianists. Even in an age when glittering technique is almost taken for granted, Ogdon's facility for both the finespun and the fantastic is prodigious. Says Stephen Bishop, 30, a London-based American, and a friendly keyboard rival of Ogdon's: "He has absolutely volcanic energy. I mean, the piano actually moves sometimes...
...stay open at night but are worried about robberies after dark get around the threat by installing automatic tellers on the walls of the vestibule-at a cost of $17,000 to $23,000 each. The customer inserts a special credit card, punches a secret number on a keyboard, and the machine dispenses cash. Other banks are putting in bulletproof tellers' cages (minimum price: $800 each...
...impersonating Batman, and gradually sheds down to a star-patterned T shirt, slacks and a Porky Pig button that lights up. Then, kicking away the piano bench, he goes into an old-fashioned rock-'n'-roll finale and plays standing up, kneeling down, even handstanding on the keyboard with feet high...
...excellent concert artists on the music faculty. One of these is assistant professor Laurence D. Berman. As one enthusiastic undergraduate said. "He is a fantastic, incredible pianist." Students who took the second half of Music 1 last spring were privileged to hear Berman illustrating his musical ideas at the keyboard. Those in Music 154 remember his playing the Liszt "Vallee d'Obermann" or improvising Chopin etudes. They remember his legendary ability sight-read scores. But those outside the musical community may not be aware of Berman's pianistic abilities since he seems to prefer small and intimate audiences...