Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Word, Picture & Song. The ambitious programs to come include a photo exhibition of Chile's beautiful Andean landscape and its handsome people, recitals by Chile's brilliant young cellist, Edgar Fischer, its famed Pianist Claudio Arrau and two of his most promising students, Mario Miranda and Alfonso Montecino. As the month goes on, Chile's writers will meet their U.S. con temporaries for panel discussions of the Chilean novel, featuring Sometime Critic Arthur Schlesinger, and theater, featuring Director Jose Quintero. Washington will be invited to a folklore program of song and dance; and Washington's Howard...
...friends in the form of paper gliders. He also wrote a little work for piano called Vexations-an 80-second chordal theme of only 180 notes in 52 beats. Then, in high humor, he added to the score an instruction that Vexations was to be played by a pianist with "interior immobility"-840 times in unbroken succession...
...some means determined that "people today are no longer afraid of time," played Vexations 75 times himself, then retired to sleep soundly on a foam-rubber pad down in the basement. But those who sat through the whole thing found themselves deeply enriched by the experience. The pianists were all transfixed by the music's windshield-wiper logic, and while each played his 20-minute turn (15 Vexations), the relief pianist stood by the piano, cultivating his interior immobility. "This kind of music," said one communicant, "leads toward the elimination of conscious control...
...slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed to show up, found his mind tuned to an "inner state of balance"-whatever that is. "The experience," he wrote after he recovered, "is dreamlike, and the pianist tries to resist waking...
...dipped into a tray of mercury, completing an electric circuit that controlled the pressure of an inked rubber wheel turning against a roll of tissue-thin paper. The wheel marked the paper faintly if the key was struck softly; fortissimos produced a wide mark because the force of the pianist's finger sank the carbon rod deeper in the mercury and intensified the current. A companion machine-the Vorsetzer-was placed at the keyboard to play back the rolls, reproducing not only the notes and their rhythmic sequence but also the personality of the original performance.-There was none...