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Last month, at the White House par ty for Princess Margaret, Duchin sat at Lynda Bird's table until he had finished off his praline glace, then took his seat at the keyboard and kept Washington's ringleaders in step till...
...Lowell Davidson had already gone full circle in his style. Before playing with Ornette Coleman in the summer of 1964, his music was tonal, metrical, and fairly conventional except for his obvious technical mastery. Then, last fall at Kirkland House, he played in short, tension-filled jabs at the keyboard that left his audience mostly puzzled. But with the Spring Concert at Quincy House came longer phrasing and a lyricism that echoed earlier styles, although the rhythmic anarchy was still there...
...Match feels that it has just scratched the surface in machine-age romance. Next step is a process called "RealTime" that will allow a customer on any campus anywhere to fill in his questionnaire on a keyboard teletype (perhaps in the Student Union?) hooked up to a central computer. Within minutes, the keyboard will automatically type out the names and telephone numbers of five soul mates within driv ing range. Instant Eros, it seems, will be here long before...
...Roaring Metal. The Reading plant, says Roy Thompson, is a "cross between a laboratory and a hospital. No more of that hot, roaring metal. The typesetters wear ordinary clothes to work and don't spatter themselves with oil." The copy desk is just a few yards from twelve keyboard machines on which former linotypists type copy into the same sort of computer that some New York newspapers have vainly tried to install. The computer hyphenates and justifies lines to form even newspaper columns, thus eliminating one of the printers' biggest jobs...
...house since its days as a residence, unable to rest because of guilt feelings about some piano lessons she never took proper advantage of. So, invisibly, she takes her place each night and bangs out tunes. The bartender often places a glass of spirits with a straw near the keyboard; it is soon drained. Irma plays a little less surely after that. But she always tries to answer requests, except for songs written after 1932. She died then. Skeptics claim that the music is played by a hidden, live pianist on a keyboard mechanically mated to the keyboard that shows...