Word: keyboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wagner's research is backed up by personal experience. After finishing medical school, he spent five years studying piano and conducting at the Detmold Music Academy. There he became frustrated at his inability to make his hands do what he wanted them to do at the keyboard. Despite six hours of daily practice, a couple of trips to a finger stretcher and various remedial exercises, he could not overcome what he took to be his natural limitations, so he abandoned his studies...
...documentary shows, but it wants producers and directors of entertainment programs to be free to edit without the aid of union middlemen. The IBEW is also demanding complete control of the Vidifont, a machine that flashes block letters on the TV screen through the operation of a typewriter keyboard...
...problem. In person, he is unable to execute his music with the sophistication he accomplishes using a studio band. At the Passim this week. Simon is singing alone, accompanying himself on piano and on electric organ. While, on the night I saw him, many in the audience found his keyboard virtuosity and his unusual singing style satisfying enough, I missed his sidemen badly. His technique is impressive, but the results are generally less inspired than his recorded work. Unlike Jack Schechtman, a far-better-than-average singer of intelligent, romantic songs who plays second bill on the show, Simon...
...vocal texture began in octaves and then thickened on the fourth word to a full four-part harmony. Though the piece was done a capella, an optional keyboard accompaniment exists which employs some startling effects such as the contra-octave CCC more than three octaves below the male voices at the end of the first line...
Ever since his German refugee parents took him, at age nine, from Berlin to America, Previn has been feeding on music. When his father had friends in for chamber music, Andre sat under the piano and listened. Later he got up and sat at the keyboard, learning to play symphonies in piano transcriptions. He also studied composing and conducting. At 16, he was scoring at MGM-with starlets as well as music. With his second wife Dory, he wrote pop hits. He collected Oscars and money...