Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strange Sounds. The focal point of Goodman's house, however, remains the music studio. He practices almost daily, plays for friends at parties, and often works on classical pieces with his daughter Rachel, 24, an accomplished amateur pianist. "After all," he says, "this is my life-music. I couldn't be content any other way." He even seems to have made his peace with the rapid evolution of jazz styles away from swing in the past two decades. Not that he approves. "I can understand the modern in classical music-in a composer like Bartok, for example...
...degree from Harvard. Both were Phi Beta Kappa freethinkers-and poles apart in their thinking, especially in politics. Father was what an acquaintance calls "a crustacean McKinley Republican," Mother "a Cambridge liberal Democrat." They were divorced when Kingman was six and his mother married a Harvard music professor, Pianist-Composer Edward Ballantine. Their Cambridge home, with its two grand pianos, was a setting...
...brilliant table talk on politics and culture from such guests as Law Professor Felix Frankfurter and Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
...concert pianist who pays him to stay away, the drifter composes pleasant little themes for the ladies he sleeps with-a slow-witted waitress, a sloe-eyed French chanteuse (Sadja Marr). The singer has a little boy who may be Alan's and who, like the drifter, improvises every moment as it comes. In the end, Alan tries to create a theme for the child, and finds his fingers inarticulate. It proves to be the one relationship that he cannot end with "Ciao, baby...
...home in Milan, where she has lived since 1950. The plaintive Eleanor Rigby, a lament for lonely people, impressed her as "one of the most beautiful I'd heard in years." She began spicing her recital programs with Beatle numbers, arranged in classic styles by artists such as Pianist Peter Serkin, who scored a contrapuntal Bachground for Yesterday. She has now recorded a dozen Beatle songs on an LP called Revolution, which was recently released in the U.S. on the Fontana label in a jacket that sedulously apes the Beatles' last album, Revolver...