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...World War I pilot turned agricultural inspector, went farthest in formal study, getting through his first year in music at the University of Western Ontario before taking to the road. Before that he had helped his father rebuild two pump organs and worked through much of Bach's keyboard music (The Well-Tempered Clavier, some 300 chorales). He also briefly played sepulchral organ in his uncle's funeral parlor. "It was terrible," he recalls. "A terrible business...
...came to the aid of cash-short consumers by installing an automatic "cash dispenser" outside one of its branches in San Francisco. Anyone with a checking account at the bank can withdraw $25 simply by inserting a plastic identification card and punching a code number on a ten-digit keyboard. The machine verifies the information by means of electronic sensors, then slips the money to the customer through another slot. It keeps the card, which is returned by mail. The withdrawal is deducted from the depositor's checking account, along with a 1% service charge. If a card holder...
...other romantics on the Butler program. Belgium's Henri Vieuxtemps was perhaps the greatest violinist of his day, but until Cellist Jascha Silberstein performed his Cello Concerto in A Minor, it had never been heard in the U.S. Sigismond Thalberg was Liszt's great rival at the keyboard and a composer of considerable skill. Yet his lively fantasy on The Barber of Seville, exuberantly played at Butler by Pianist Raymond Lewenthal, is now a rarity...
Harmony at the Keyboard. Determined to shuck his old reputation as a combative campaigner, Nixon has gone out of his way to appease the opposition party. He stopped off in Independence, Mo., to present Harry Truman with his old White House piano for the Truman Library. Both men shook hands and smiled as if they could not remember that they had traded some of the bitterest personal exchanges in modern American politics.* When Truman, now 84, demurred at a suggestion that he try the old Steinwav, Nixon sat down and affably pounded out the Missouri Waltz...
Despite its Pythagorean formality, however, Xenakis' music bears his ingeniously personal mark. For instance, during a composition called Eonta (which means "beings" in Greek) three trombonists and two trumpeters march to and fro about the stage while a pianist flays wildly away at the keyboard. In Terretektorh (one of the coined Greek words that he uses to title his pieces), the musicians blow whistles, rattle maracas, clap wooden blocks and crack small whips besides coaxing unearthly sounds from conventional instruments. As in Terretektorh, the entire orchestra will be scattered throughout the audience during the world premi...