Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Levin won the concerto contest here last year. He is active as a pianist, harpsichordist, a conductor and composer. He is chief producer at WHRB and has two weekly programs...
...Cellist Gregor Piatagorsky is wrong. Sergei Rachmaninoff [May 13] did take students. One of them was the well-known pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, who describes her lessons with Rachmaninoff in her book Forbidden Childhood. As a teacher, he was apparently a painstaking technician who, after lessons, served his student tea in a glass...
Nikolais, a mild-mannered ex-pianist, studied dance with Martha Graham and Hanya Holm before forming his own company in 1956. Now 54, he no longer dances, but concentrates on developing a theater of the "total happening," in which "man is taken out of this world and put into the universe." From that vista, the view is sometimes self-conscious and distorted, but the message comes through. Says Nikolais: "We've got to make our peace today with a lot more things than our fellow...
...four actors on stage carried the scene through to its conclusion before Miss Stone came on stage, said "Ladies and Gentlemen, it's Friday the Thirteenth," and explained that the show would have to close. Pianist Brad Berg broke into "Anything Goes...
...vengeful mother-in-law, played by the late Constance Bennett. After one wifely indiscretion (Ricardo Montalban), Lana is banished by Connie from haute couture country, and begins the long, long slide into ready-to-wear. In Europe, she picks up a fur-trimmed coat and a concert pianist. Her hair loses its luster, her complexion fades to the color of driftwood, and ultimately she lands in Mexico wearing a filthy flowered wrapper and carousing with Burgess Meredith, a blackmailer. After she shoots him for threatening to reveal her identity and spoil the Governor's bid for the White House...