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...Boston, and especially at Harvard, since people don’t really go into Boston to hear bands,” he said. Since their sophomore year, the pair has spent their time in the studio, producing their own music while also recording such Harvard artists as classical pianist Nora I. Bartosik ’08. “You learn how to record other instruments and produce other kinds of music, and I think that’s what we’ve learned to do with our music, which is break a lot of boundaries...
...that music is an aesthetic experience, but also just particles hitting the air,” he says. “It has so many cultural, physical, and biological sources.”Musico didn’t start out in musical theater. “I am a pianist, by trade,” he says. “I grew up in a traditional Italian family that felt wholesome kids should play an instrument.” He began playing the piano at age five, and studied classical artists until high school. It was then that he began...
...well-worn jazz riff: superb player, been around forever but known mostly to musicians and insiders. Andrew Hill almost fit the bill. Over his 50-year career, he was lauded as a groundbreaking pianist and composer. And yet he was often overlooked by mainstream audiences, which focused on contemporaries like Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins. But Hill refused to fade. His 2006 album, Time Lines, earned him album-of-the-year honors from Down Beat magazine. Hill, who performed just three weeks before his death...
Playing a misfit pianist in Shine may have won him an Oscar, but look at the prize Rush won for playing a villain...
...sort of deconsolidate, strip down all the things we do in hotels and go and ask why. Why do we do that? Why do we play the Girl from Ipanema when no one in the bar is over the age of 40? Why do we have to tow that pianist out? Why do we grab that bag off that frequent business traveler...