Word: keyboarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weirdness. Starting out, the nucleus of the band formed in Providence in 1974, when Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, students at the Rhode Island School of Design, fell in with David Byrne, occasional student and otherworldly wit. Moving a couple of hundred miles south, and joining up with Keyboard Player Jerry Harrison, they became the premier house band for New York City's young artistic community. Artist Robert Longo even inserted a life-size cutout of Byrne, the group's lead singer and driving force, into a construction called Heads Will Roll. "Neo-expressionism" was the buzz word for this...
...bootleg tapes of Michael Jackson and Boy George. But Soviet youth have so far missed out completely on one craze that is sweeping much of the West: the computer boom. Most Soviet teens have never touched a personal computer, much less spent hours hacking away happily at a keyboard...
...like to study the works of more composers and perhaps learn to play more instruments. In high school, Blacklow played the trumpet, but explains, "I wanted to practice two hours of that and two hours of piano, so I dropped it." Now, he is interested in taking up other keyboard instruments, like the harpsichord...
...full-court-press style. Though the computer was announced in November 1983, sparking consumer demand long before it hit the stores, IBM missed the all important Christmas season because of production delays. When PCjr did arrive in January 1984, many consumers were disappointed. For one thing, its keyboard was difficult to use. Even worse, its memory was limited, an unpardonable offense in a / computer. It did not satisfy professionals looking for sophisticated machines, and its price range of $699 to $1,269 for various models (without accessories like a display monitor) was too steep for casual users. IBM responded...
...whose birthday falls this week, came from a long line of musicians and spent almost his entire life in what is now East Germany in the often contentious service of pompous princelings and severe Lutheran rectors. He married twice, fathered 20 children, and died far more renowned for his keyboard playing than for his mostly unpublished cantatas, Masses, sonatas and concertos...