Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sacred Cow. The doctors were wrong, of course. But Burgess still works with the passionate speed of a condemned man. Right now he has three new novels in the works: an espionage thriller in a "super-James Bond vein," a biographical fiction based on his pianist father's musical career, and a novel devoted to Pope John XXIII, about whom Burgess, a strict English Catholic, is highly critical. Soon to be published is the third and concluding volume of the Enderby novels, the story of a poet who loses and then regains his creative gift, generally regarded...
...Kuumbas brings a lot of different people from very different backgrounds together," says Kathy Gatson, '76 student director, pianist, and songwriter. "This is the first time singing certain kinds of black music for some of us but we all come together and become...
Since an established country-music career is about as durable as a concert pianist's, Tanya should be around a long time. She does not have a typically sweet, country soprano. In fact, her flinty alto carries a disconcerting and quite false suggestion of whisky, smoke and sex. Already, Would You Lay With Me and Satin Sheets are in her repertory, and anyone listening to them on records might well picture a roadhouse chanteuse instead of an open-faced, honey-haired teen...
...Sirota, pianist, in recital. Works of Stravinsky, Sirota, Dallapiccola, Debussy. Free. Saturday...
Hoping to go on to medical school, she took graduate chemistry courses and worked as a laboratory assistant to Biologist Robert Macy, who has described her as "interested in drugs and consciousness-raising-type pursuits." In February 1973, her six-year marriage to Black Pianist Gilbert Scott Perry broke up, and she began a drifting, seemingly aimless existence, working variously as a topless blackjack dealer in a North Beach nightclub and selling soft drinks from an outdoor stand. On Jan. 10 she fled a rented house in suburban Concord used by the S.L.A. as a headquarters, after trying...