Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Melange. For his Venice performance, Cage prepared a typically mad melange of musical low jinks. The evening started mildly enough with Round i, in which Cage and Pianist David Tudor sat at different pianos alternately plunking notes at up to 20-second intervals. Presently Dancer Merce Cunningham started undulating in symbolic suggestion of an embryo wriggling toward manhood. By Round 3, when Cage was thumping his piano stool with a rock, the restive audience began to jeer. The jeers grew in Round 4. as Cage and Tudor launched into a piano duet, playing chords with their elbows while assaulting...
...each horse came from an English stallion named Herod, in 1758. Vuillier then set about breeding horses to duplicate this precise percentage of Herod's blood, plus the proper proportions of blood from the 19th century progenitors. Although she was trained for a career as a concert pianist, Mme Vuillier absorbed the theory well that the old Aga Khan himself persuaded her to take over the job of breeding manager when her husband died...
...prodigy who was teaching at a conservatory when he was only 16, Michelangeli served in the Italian air force and Alpini during World War II. He ran afoul of the German SS, who, by his account, "rubber-hosed" his arms when they learned he was a pianist. "A minor war wound of no lasting consequence," shrugs Michelangeli. But since the war, his health has been poor; he has played less and less, behaves with growing eccentricity. During rare recording sessions, he will sit pondering for hours before placing hands to keys, or walk out to take the speeding...
When classes are over, Michelangeli, a powerful, strapping man whose large hands can dominate a steering wheel as readily as a keyboard, climbs into his Lancia and scorches the road to his sea side summer home. The pianist drove in the prewar Mille Miglia three times, won once, but now has quit racing, officially at least. (He boasts that he recently forced his Ferrari to 186 m.p.h...
Winding up a three-month tour of the Soviet Union, thicket-topped Pianist Van Cliburn, 26, beyond dispute the Russians' favorite American, played, sang and wept through a televised farewell concert, also posed with two other TV stars, Belka and Strelka, the Soviet space dogs. Presented with his tour earnings of roughly $8,000, Cliburn, not permitted to take the money back to the U.S., passed up a chance to shoot the wad on a luxurious...