Word: pianist
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DIED. FRANK CONROY, 69, who laid the groundwork for modern confessional memoirs with his acclaimed 1967 debut Stop-Time, an unsentimental chronicle of his painfully nomadic, picaresque childhood; of colon cancer; in Iowa City. The sometime jazz pianist mentored scores of young writers, many of whom became successful novelists, during 18 years as head of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the country's most prestigious creative-writing program...
More precisely, elegant guest pianist Nora I. Bartosik ’08 shone in a brilliant performance, which was more often obscured than complemented by the orchestra...
Following this disappointing performance of an already unsettling composition, the internationally acclaimed pianist Bartosik took the stage to perform Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3.” The introduction performed by the orchestra suggested the second performance would be no better than the first. Although the strings section played in unison and followed the concertmaster well, the winds seemed to be in an entirely different world. Constantly out of sync, the two sections did not seem to share any musical connection...
Rybeck, an accomplished pianist and songwriter in his own right, agreed with the necessity for both artistic passion and daring, offering as advice a line from T.S. Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday”: “Teach us to care and not to care...
...troupe also stood out from the rest of the troupes with an intuitively comedic pianist planted among their crew. At different points in the show, dialogue would suddenly turn melodramatic as a particularly bass note was struck, while at other times, a snazzy musical number would drive home the punch line of a joke, adding a special finesse to the humor of the energetic performance. The upbeat song, “You, Sterility, Hexagons, and Science,” saw the players striving for lyrical absurdity with aplomb. Many attendees were inspired to join in the festivities and offered...