Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well be better professors at Yale. Diversity is the secret. For some reason, while a man who is superb in one field does not necessarily have a really ineluctable image, it is impossible to ignore someone who is almost superb in several fields at once, e.g., a reasonably good pianist who can conduct orchestras and write musical comedies. Author Warren, who has won, and earned, Pulitzer Prizes for fiction (All the King's Men, 1946) and poetry (Promises, 1957), is the Leonard Bernstein of contemporary literature...
...gusto born of love, he has been clutching the hand of the public ever since. And although he has long since banished Tchaikovsky from his valise, he regularly summons to the great romantic literature of the piano-Brahms, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt-more poetry and grandeur than any other pianist alive. The moderns, Rubinstein thinks, are best left to "the brilliant youngsters to whom these sounds are more natural" (although one of the brilliant youngsters, Van Cliburn, has emerged as Rubinstein's logical successor as a master of the musical romantics...
...think anyone can beat me on that"), and when he sits down at the piano to ruminate on Chopin, say, or Schumann, he does so with the majestic air of a man who can look beneath the surface to the ultimate simplicities of great art. No other pianist achieves quite the same authority, nor does any other contemporary command Rubinstein's remarkable elegance of tone. Big or small, the sound is always rich and full-in contrast to that of the younger pianists who tend to treat the piano more percussively...
Music & Mixers. For restless Ray Kroc, the road to drive-in wealth began with a series of detours. After early stretches as a jazz pianist and musical director of Oak Park, Ill. radio station WGES, Kroc spent 17 years selling paper cups and then Multimixer milk-shake makers. One day in 1954 he stopped at a drive-in run by two brothers named McDonald in San Bernardino, Calif. Impressed by their efficient operation, Kroc struck a bargain with the brothers: in return for use of the McDonald name and techniques, he agreed to pay them 0.5% of all future sales...
Each of these teachers was a follower of Robert Pace, 37, a dynamic concert pianist and teacher, and the country's foremost advocate of group lessons. At Columbia's Teachers College in Manhattan, where he is head of piano instruction...