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...bench they were sitting on is actually six big cubes, which now tilt forward to show a mammoth piano keyboard painted on their sides. The umbrellas pick out a waltz, note for precise note, in two-part harmony. This brings the man and woman together. The cubes roll over again and become an automobile with painted wheels. The couple goes for a drive. The wheels spin. The girl's hair blows in the wind. Paper puffs of exhaust smoke head for the wings. The girl loses her scarf. The car backs up to retrieve it. The smoke reverses direction...
...style is such an integral part of the music he has written that few jazz pianists have much luck with even the Monk tunes that have become part of the standard jazz repertory. Monk himself plays with deliberate incaution, attacking the piano as if it were a carillon's keyboard or a finely tuned set of 88 drums. The array of sounds he divines from his Baldwin grand are beyond the reach of academic pianists; he caresses a note with the tremble of a bejeweled finger, then stomps it into its grave with a crash of elbow and forearm aimed...
...Chairman of the Faculty Committee on the Computing Center. Frank A. Engle, Jr., Manager of the Center, said yesterday, however, that a complete time sharing system might not meet the University's needs of the limited amount of information that can be fed to a computer through a teletype keyboard...
...talk about what's new in bell ringing. Last week at the Washington Cathedral's inaugural recital on its new $250,000, 53-bell carillon, it was obvious that the church fathers knew just whom to hire to handle their heroic instru ment. The man at the keyboard was Guild President Ronald Barnes...
...requires striking rounded oak keys with clenched fists while pumping on the foot pedals-yet tone is controlled by variations in touch, just as on a piano. In his octagonal playing cabin inside the 301-ft. Washington tower, Barnes is surrounded by bells on all sides, and the broad keyboard confronts him like a firing squad's rifles. Each carillon is unique, and because the 12-ton, E-flat bourdon bell in the Washington carillon is heavier and therefore deeper in pitch than its counterpart in Kansas, Barnes must rescore all his music a major third higher to suit...