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...head and storms in his heart. He played upon the whole keyboard of human passions...
Wild and exotic music came from that keyboard: scenes of massacre and battle and hell. There were (see color) the funereal chords of his Hamlets, the lyric melancholy of some of his portraits, the emotional rhythms of his still lifes. History has cast Delacroix in the role of the great romanticist pitted against Ingres, France's great classicist. Yet for all his passion, he was a man of intellect who never surrendered to unbridled emotion. "Reason must control all our infirmities," he said...
...York, Solal's music turned out to be every bit as good as the echoes from Paris had suggested. He is an amazingly adept virtuoso, and he never lets his virtuosity run away with his musicianship. Instead, he pursues unconventional harmonic flights, exploring the full reach of the keyboard with a fanciful right hand and a strong and steady bass line. In improvisation, his imagination is rich to the point of bursting, and he punctuates his own ideas with ironic mockeries of the pianists he has learned something from-Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Art Tatum...
...speaks and even seems to think with a stammer-but the halt is strangely touching. In song, his voice quavers and breaks, but then he catches it, and it rises to a shriek that ends on a cheerless blue note. He rocks in rhythm across the keyboard of his piano, but he seems not so much mannered as he is possessed. He is a blind Negro, haunted by narcotics; yet when he sings a song that makes him stammer, shriek and rock, Ray Charles is the best blues singer around...
...Note: The article on page four of today's paper is printed for its scientific value only. For years the Crimson Printing Company has allowed its pet monkey, Frank, to sit at the Linotype keyboard during lunch hour. This was the first readable type he has ever produced...