Word: pianistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he put his mind to it, he was a brilliant pianist, but he usually composed his many operas, ballets, concertos, chamber music and 15 symphonies right on the page without reference to the keyboard. He claimed that he could write in a doghouse, as-officially, at least-he often did. Beyond his work, his enthusiasms were soccer and chess...
...different from everybody else, reclining on a European tour as frail aristocrats line up to beg for favors. He is the most powerful man in the world. Meanwhile, a black ragtime pianist, thought to be a Junatic, is holed up in J.P.'s library, ready to blow it up. He is holding all New York at ransom to correct a racial humiliation. He bombs fire stations, dominates the tabloids, and threatens to detonate the Morgan property if he is not avenged. As in Attica, a "representative" is sent in, Booker T.Washington, but the ragtime man is adamant...
...Modern jazz Quartet's pianist, John Lewis as well as Marian McPartland, will be performing tonight at Sanders Theatre. Lewis is past his prime, but at one time he was pretty innovative. Tickets are available through Holyoke Center ticket office at $3 and $4 a piece. The show starts...
...Jazz Pianist Brubeck, a concert trail veteran, is likely to come across broken benches, signs that John has been there...
Last Monday, this group of talented students and internationally known professionals performed four infrequently heard works with their usual conviction and energy. Leon Kirchner, whose talents as a coach were in evidence throughout the concert, showed himself to be a formidable triple threat by appearing as the pianist in his own Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello (1954). This piece uses a dissonant, non-tonal vocabulary, articulated in driving rhythms and evocative melodic fragments. The result is an almost Romantic sense of clearly defined broad gestures. Kirchner, along with violinist Donald Weilerstein and cellist Laurence Lesser, responded to these qualities...