Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first concert tour of the West Coast since 1948, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz almost began on a bad note. During a pre-concert shopping excursion through Seattle, Horowitz, 71, suddenly found himself wedged in a supermarket turnstile. "I pushed it one way, and it would not move," he recalled. "I pushed it the other way. It would not move. I never saw anything like it. I said, 'Goodbye, I'm gone forever. Finito.' " Supermarket employees finally managed to free the imprisoned virtuoso after a 15-minute struggle with the balky machinery, however, and Vladimir survived to play before...
Could it be The Who? David Bowie, perhaps? Or a Ken Russellized version of Liberace? None of the above. "We're just Queen," says Freddie Mercury, 29, the group's lead singer, pianist and songwriter. Adds Guitarist Brian May: "We're not styled on anybody...
...editor at Putnam, an old New York City publishing firm, young Chase could not decide whether to be a writer, a pianist, a drummer or an actor. Says his father: "He was a quadruple threat." So Chevy did everything. In 1971 he wrote for and acted in The Great American Dream Machine, PBS's comedy series. Then he toured with several rock bands and spent a year writing for Mad magazine. In 1973 he combined all his talents, becoming music director, writer and actor on the National Lampoon Theater Company's off-Broadway revue Lemmings, which he helped...
Freleng's Rhapsody Rabbit features Bugs as a concert pianist laying waste one of Liszt's Hungarian rhapsodies. Hair-Raising Hare, directed by Jones, pits Bugs against both a Peter Lorre prototype and the sneaker monster, showing the rabbit at his most unflappable. As he struggles to hold a wooden castle door closed against his pursuer, he calls out: "Is there a doctor in the house?" A silhouette appears on the screen, as if from the audience, and says: "Yes, I'm a doctor." Bugs, suddenly taking an insouciant munch on a carrot and ignoring the peril...
...program designed to get the question of Berman's technique out of the way at once. The Liszt Sonata in B minor offers a hard challenge to any pianist's claims on a big romantic style...