Word: keyboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public was bewitched with its eerie atomic sounds, first through Composer Walter Carlos' bestselling record Switched-On Bach, later by Rock Keyboard Artists Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Rick Wakeman of Yes. The synthesizer began to challenge the electric guitar for the top of the instrumental rock pile...
...drug fiend, I'm not a drunkard, but I am the laziest man I ever met," joked Artur Rubinstein just a few days before he gave a marathon concert that included two piano concertos. On his 88th birthday, the last of the great romantics on or off the keyboard celebrated with his children and grandchildren and also gave an elfish performance for some 40 friends gathered to toast him in Manhattan. RCA presented him with a chocolate piano with 88 keys. Purring at the adulation, and twinkling much the way he must have in Paris when he was interrupted...
...pairs, he has chosen tinted aviators, rather than the giant shades even larger than himself that he once staggered onstage with, or the sporty diamanté numbers with pin wheels sparkling at the corners that he liked to show off before doing a handstand on the keyboard...
Aleksander Slobodyanik Plays Liszt; Sonata in B Minor, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 (Columbia/Melodiya, $6.98). Slobodyanik ranks among the half a dozen best keyboard artists under 35. A galvanizing pianist whose appeal is not confined to showers of notes, he fuses virtuosity with a sense of poetry, but in this account of the Liszt B Minor Sonata, Slobodyanik shows a lapse of heart. The allegro passage work is more muscled than brilliant; where it should be bold it thumps...
...Columbia, 5 LPs). His centenary is celebrated with a comprehensive package ranging from early songs to piano works with the composer at the keyboard...