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Rick Wakeman. Not counting the revolving crystal sphere which shed light upon the audience, Yes's only form of physical embellishment was a mysterious figure clad in a magician's cape and surrounded by such an entourage of keyboards that he would have been practically obfuscated if not for his gleaming locks which actually rivaled the crystal ball in brilliance. Rick Wakeman has since left Yes and his career as a solo artist is blossoming. Saturday night he will perform a musical version of Jules Verne's science fictionclassic, Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Neither man power...
...makes up for a certain lack of profundity with its bouncy good spirits and melodic charm. Franz performed it frequently as a concert pianist, and if he was able to bring it off as brilliantly as Graffman did last week, he must have had a first-rate keyboard technique. He also played (and revered) his father's music and quite clearly was burdened by the comparison. Finally he had to get away from it all and, still in his 30s, exiled himself to a life of teaching and conducting in what is now the Ukrainian city of Lvov...
Thrown Away. The printers' outmoded skills are rooted in the 19th century. Under the traditional system, after reporters' stories are typed and edited, they are sent to the composing room. Using the keyboard on Linotype machines (first introduced in 1886), printers slowly retype the copy while the Linotypes disgorge slugs of hot metal bearing single lines of even or "justified" type. Masses of these slugs make up columns of type and are inserted into page forms; plates made from completed forms are eventually put on the presses...
Clapton's mature style-in songs like Give Me Strength and Let It Grow from his new album, 461 Ocean Boulevard-is free of the ostentatious virtuosity that sometimes disfigured his playing in the past. But the quicksilver runs and keyboard rampages that earned him the ironic nickname "Slow-hand" are still there. Sometimes Clapton turned his back to the audience to listen in turn to each musician in his excellent group-Carl Radle on bass, Dick Sims at the keyboards, Drummer Jamie Oldaker, Guitarist George Terry and Singer Yvonne Elliman...
...devices as electric bass, electric piano, echoplex and phase shifter. Head Hunters finds him, in addition, employing the Arp Soloist synthesizer (for melody) and the Arp Odyssey synthesizer (melody and color). As if to justify his expenditures, Hancock says: "There is only so much you do with a keyboard...