Word: pianistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-aged ex-concert pianist and civic engineer, Sampson has worked with hypnosis in conjunction with psychologists and therapists for more than 25 years. For the last 15 years he has received clients in his modest Brookline apartment. In a series of five lessons, Sampson teaches his students "self-hypnosis", which is what he calls his hypnosis program. After the lessons Sampson says each client can hypnotize himself to achieve "self-embetterment...
Carter traces his fondness for the arts, and particularly music, to an influential schoolteacher he had in Plains and an Annapolis roommate who was an accomplished pianist. He and Wife Rosalynn once took a correspondence course in great operas (she complained that he played the records too loud). After two months in the White House, he has made three visits to Kennedy Center -for a Washington Opera Society production of Madame Butterfly, Hal Hoibrook's Mark Twain Tonight! and a New York City Ballet Company performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream...
Brings Tears. Carter has not entirely done away with the usual White House practice of reaching to Hollywood or Broadway for entertainment at black-tie evenings, but he has managed to import classical stars like Pianist Rudolf Serkin, who played at the state dinner for Mexican President Lopez Portillo, and the Juilliard String Quartet, which played during Inaugural festivities in the East Room. After the guests had departed. Carter apologized to the quartet for not being able to give his full attention to the music and asked if they would perform an encore. Following a stirring rendition of a movement...
...Benny's jazz sextet came out. The couple in the balcony did not look relieved. Bass player Percy Heath started plucking his big fiddle. The audience grew quiet. The guitarist, Cal Collins, jazzed in and out of the bass-line. A few heads in the audience nodded. Then pianist John Bunch took it alone for a little while, his hands roaming the keyboard like dancing spiders. The audience listened. Bunch stopped and drummer Connie Kay toyed with the beat. A few heads started bobbing. Then Kay stopped and all four jumped in. Heath plucked a bass line, Collins picked around...
...tympani. But Gershwin's orchestration is extolled as clever or charming by many; there's no point in carping about something which many people inveterately enjoy. The performance of such unusual sections and of the rest of the piece was usually quite exciting, due in large part to the pianist's resounding and sensitive execution. The orchestra was particularly effective in the Allegro, when it merely supported Melnyk nicely in his swift gentle passages...