Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born in an alley back home in St. Louis, where, as a boy of seven, he discovered "a busted mandolin in a trash barrel, tuned it like a uke, and started picking at it." Rhythm came naturally; his father was a lyricist and vaudeville performer, his mother a pianist and singer who organized and led a 15-piece, all-male dance band. Father Dustin, who never wanted to be any thing but a priest, nevertheless departed for a seminary at 15 with his banjo on his knee. Assigned after ordination to the Holy Redeemer Church in Detroit, he took...
...Lewisohn concerts have had a bad summer at the box office, only once filling better than half the seats. But Pianist Cliburn's appearance there last week-his first in New York at popular prices in more than a year-drew a capacity 20,000, proving that three years after his Moscow triumph he still commands a movie-fan idolatry rare among longhairs. His ardently romantic manner of playing the piano is only part of the appeal; Cliburn also obviously enjoys crowds and loves applause and has a showman's sure instinct for using his gifts. At Lewisohn...
Last week the BBC admitted the program was a deceit. Composer Zak turned out to be the head of the BBC's chamber music department, Hans Keller, and accomplice Pianist Susan Bradshaw. They got the idea, they said, as they "were listening to the faintly melodious sounds produced by the moving of chairs." Said Miss Bradshaw: "We dragged together all the instruments we could find and went around the studio banging them.'' She was pleased with the results. "It was a serious hoax," she said. "That fake music can be indistinguishable from the genuine is a reflection...
Mauricio Kagel: TransiciÓn II (Time). With its suddenly splatted chords, its plocks and thunks and harplike glissandos. Argentine-born Composer Kagel's piece for piano, percussion and magnetic tapes suggests a very drunk fraternity pianist trying to play Stardust in pitch darkness, occasionally mashing his fingers with the piano lid. Weirdly compelling, but likely to make few converts to the electronic school...
Enroll Garner: Dreamstreet (ABC-Paramount). The first recording in almost three years by the distinguished acrobat whose feats must be heard to be disbelieved. Pianist Garner still has more than his fair share of fingers, but their presence often stupefies rather than charms. A notable exception: the trip-hammered, polyrhythmic ride he gives to the Rodgers-Hart lady who was a tramp...