Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was a style for everyone: the cool sound of Pianist Bill Evans, 48, with his sophisticated classical harmonies; the loosely structured, rather chaotic-sounding "free" jazz of such revolutionaries as Ornette Coleman, 48, Cecil Taylor, 45, and Sam Rivers, 47. Master Pianists Chick Corea, 37, and Herbie Hancock, 38, were into "fusion" music, a blending of jazz with rock's electronic sound. A tribute to the Latin influence on jazz starred the formidable massed bands of Tito Puente and Machito. There was even a special last-minute entry: Irakere, a jazz-rock Cuban group whose members had been...
...however, production fell from its peak in 1913 to around 100 pianos a year. For one thing, the factory, once a monastery, needed modernizing. For another, hauteur some times precluded sales; one director was said to have dismissed a customer by saying that he was "not a good enough pianist to own a Bösendorfer...
With production up over 600 pianos a year, Bösendorfer now plans to shed its aristocratic reserve and compete with Steinway for the U.S. concert business. It will make Bösendorfers available across the country for performances by travel ing artists. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has al ready gone over. But the odds are still with the Steinway: 95% of American concert pianists endorse it. Too bad Liszt is not around to judge the competition...
Chopin: Chopin (Pianist Vladimir Horowitz; RCA); Concert Favorites (Pianist Vladimir Horowitz; RCA). Released for Horowitz's golden jubilee year, both records are selections from mono collections compiled over three decades. Chopin's demanding B-flat-minor sonata, a Horowitz signature, is here. The Favorites album shows Horowitz's quieter side, with such masterly but unpretentious works as Scarlatti's Sonata in E-Major and Mendelssohn's Variations Sérieuses. Even without stereo tracking, the playing here is what Horowitz fans expect: the best...
...smile." He argues that "light verse need not be funny, but what no verse can afford to be is unfunny." He stresses the technical hurdles that the light poet must erect and then clear; since he is up to something trivial, the artist must do it perfectly. "A concert pianist," Amis writes, "is allowed a wrong note here and there; a juggler is not allowed to drop a plate...