Word: keyboarding
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...sign of having been tossed off in half an afternoon. "I think it's a lot of twaddle that using a word processor affects the quality of writing for the worse," says the author, who claims a touch-typing speed of 110 words per minute on the computer keyboard...
...secret of Horowitz's appeal is twofold. His phenomenal technique, regarded by piano connoisseurs as the most dazzling since Franz Liszt set the standard of virtuosity in the mid-19th century, gets the listeners into the tent. Horowitz could always do anything he wanted at the keyboard, whether pounding out octaves or rippling off scales in thirds. But mere technique is not enough. Just as Luciano Pavarotti's high notes, in the tenor's prime several years ago, were backed up by a gorgeous liquid tone and a supple sense of phrasing, so Horowitz's pianism offers many subtleties...
...work in China." Walking through a brightly lighted store in Shenzhen, the boom town across the border from Hong Kong, Hatfield, who heads Wal-Mart's retail operations in China, can't disguise his delight over the--what else?--"everyday low prices!" He zips over to an electronic keyboard selling for $20. "It was three times more a few years ago!" he exclaims. He pauses at a bathroom scale that used to sell for $6 and now is just $2.50. "We found a new vendor," he says. "It's amazing. We're bringing people a great shopping experience!" Chinese customers...
...previously unknown ARIA by Johann Sebastian Bach, among a collection of 18th century folio prints that had been removed from a library shortly before it was destroyed by fire last September; by a researcher at the Bach-Archiv foundation; in Weimar, Germany. The piece, for soprano with string or keyboard accompaniment, was written in 1713 when Bach was 28 and is the first composition by him unearthed since the 1975 discovery of new sections of the Goldberg Variations. Although the foundation says the aria isn't a major work, it considers it "a casual piece of exquisite quality...
Lowe’s most recent musical project—and the one closest to his heart—is “Tommy and the Tigers,” a self-described “dance-rock” band that features Lowe on lead vocals and keyboard, along with lead guitarist T. Josiah Pertz ’05, guitarist Drew R. Bordeaux ’05, and drummer Drake. Last year, Lowe wrote and recorded a solo demo CD of piano-accompanied songs, but he wanted a sound closer to the music that pulsed through the night...