Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attracted more tourists. Indira selected an interesting man from an interesting state for the job. New Tourism Minister Karan Singh, 36, is the Maharajah of Kashmir and, as such, is the first Indian prince ever to serve in a Cabinet. His talents as a Sanskrit scholar, poet and pianist attracted Indira's attention. The question now is whether he can help India project an image that lures nore tourists-and hard currency-to the country...
...four-movement suite for piano with six instruments, which enter by ones and twos to sass the piano and one another. Not top-drawer Janácek, but nonetheless vigorous and jazzy with its insistent themes, bold fistfuls of chords and thumping rhythms. Josef Pálenicek is the pianist...
BEETHOVEN: CELLO SONATAS NOS. 3 and 5 (Angel). From the beauty of tone and sensitivity of interpretation, listeners would scarcely suspect that the cellist is only 22, the pianist 27. Jacqueline du Pré, a child prodigy in England and recent student of the Russian virtuoso Mstislav Rostropovitch, handles her cello as gloriously as any master three times her age; Los Angeles-born Stephen Bishop, former student of Myra Hess, makes an impressive partner...
...Golden Glint. Like Miss Stein, Alice Toklas came from a Jewish background and moved in a wealthy orbit in San Francisco. She considered a career as a concert pianist. Then, at the age of 30, she first laid eyes on Gertrude Stein in Paris. "She was a golden-brown presence," Alice wrote later, "burned by the Tuscan sun and with a golden glint in her warm brown hair." Together they soon set up house on the Rue de Fleurus. While Gertrude labored over her hypnotic experiments with words-the most famous being "Rose is a rose is a rose"-Alice...
...mother, a concert pianist under her maiden name, Iris Greep, went out and bought the first one she saw, a three-quarter length box that served until Jacqueline was six and began taking lessons at the London Cello School. She progressed so brilliantly that at the age of eleven she won the Suggia International Cello Award. After seven years of tutoring under London Cellist William Pleeth, she worked for five months in Moscow with Mstislav Rostropovich...