Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...height. Sorry, said Liz, Leslie's tails were at the tailors. "But I've just been talking to a tall man," she added. "If you can come to the White House you can have the best we have." The string-beany pianist zipped over and with the aid of L.BJ.'s valet found the more-than-ample presidential tails. "They look fine," said L.B.J. as Cliburn stopped by to thank him-and everybody at Constitution Hall thought...
...miles from home, having just played a concert at the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Artur Rubinstein, 78, was greeting visitors in his dressing room. Among them was a tall fellow who walked up and said: "Permit me to introduce myself. I am your partner." "My partner?" asked the pianist in bewilderment. "Of course," replied the fellow. "I'm Sheldon Cohen, U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue." Rubinstein thought fast: "Hah! This time you've made a mistake. Right now I don't have a penny on me!" And with that, Artur turned his pockets inside...
...Russians played; there were enough empty spaces in the hall to drive a tractor around in, and the crowd dwindled further at intermission. It wasn't that Conductor Kiril Kondrashin had given a poor concert; it was just that the exuberance of Mehta, his orchestra, and Negro Pianist Andre Watts's performance of a Liszt concerto were a hard act to follow...
...when Marisa leaves him to go home, Sergio pursues her-and gets beaten up in rescuing her from her angry peasant family. Though his premiums are soaring, he insists on taking out equal insurance policies for all three women. To make ends meet, he begins moonlighting as a jazz pianist in a honkytonk. A new complication is added when lis son finds him there and dismisses him contemptuously as a buffoon...
church organist, opera coach and night club pianist...