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...eight-CD project on the Pearl label called Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era aims to change that. So too does a contemporary pianist named Peter Mintun, who is working to restore novelty piano to its rightful place in the history of our popular culture. He recently opened a four-month engagement playing novelty compositions and pop classics at the posh Carlyle Hotel in New York City...
Examples abound in the Pearl series. The easy virtuosity of Pauline Alpert's Rain on the Roof, with its cascading arpeggios and delicate filigree work, matches the best that classical contemporaries like Josef Hofmann or Josef Lhevinne had to offer. Her performance of Gershwin's Fascinatin' Rhythm out-Gershwins the great man himself. Confrey's rhythmically tricky 1921 showpiece, Kitten on the Keys, is novelty's signature tune, but his Humorestless, a clever musical pun on both Dvorak's Humoresque and Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home, is equally typical of his exuberant style. Most ambitious...
Vancil maintained residences in both Belmont, Mass, and Madison, Conn. He is survived by his wife, the former Emily Robinsonl; his mother, Pearl Campbell and stepfather, Clyde Campbell of Columbia, S.C.; a daughter, Virginia Wilkins of Madison, Conn; two sons, Robinson of Madison, Conn. and Richard of Wayland, Mass.; two sisters, Joan Underwood of Columbia, S.C. and Mary Lynn Musgrove of Columbus, Ohio; a stepbrother, George Campbell of Levonia, Mich.; and five grandchildren...
...seldom marked by experience, and except for maids and servants, they all belong to the same stratum--a class, needless to say, rather above his. Does this make them insipid? Sometimes, yes, but it can also turn them into vessels of lyric innocence, as in the Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-66, with her liquidly painted turban of virginal blue, who turns her shining gaze to meet yours as though she'd never seen another human being...
...BEATLES New album nearly sets sales record. In 25 years, will anyone buy Pearl Jam outtakes...