Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than couple separated. Rest of industry, undisguisedly envious, predicts he will go too far and fall. Seems unworried. Earns about $250,000 a year plus stock options. Ranges out from roomy Manhattan cooperative to spend evenings catching new acts; hobnobs with the Beatles, has even squired Pianist Vladimir Horowitz to Greenwich Village discotheque...
THURSDAY: An American Family. The Loud family. subjects of a seven-month documentary analysis, take a vacation, separately. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color. 60 min. Love Story. No, not that one. This 1944 English movie with striking plot similarities to a certain Harvard recruiting film has an ailing concert pianist in a doomed love affair with a blind RAF officer...
...Down In The Flood." Smither and background pianist Eric Kaz turn in a performance that out-stomps the high-spirited Dylan original. My favorites among Smither's songs include the title cut and "I Feel The Same," both of which are dominated by Smither's acoustic and John Bailey's electric guitars. Smither is about the only folk writer I've heard who writes about loneliness without ever reverting to romantic drivel or embarassing self-pity. One key to his success over a wide range of moods is a sense of humor that keeps him from taking his crises...
...past. Almost all the old faces-living and dead-were there. Peggy Cass sat in as Paar's answer to Ed McMahon, introducing Paar and doing commercials. Genevieve, whose funny French accent Paar discovered, was a guest, along with such other oldtime regulars as Jonathan Winters. Even Pianist Oscar Levant, who died last year, came back-in a replay of a show from the early...
GEMINI; Erroll Garner (London, $5.98). In his 60th or so LP, Jazz Pianist Garner sounds fresher and more original than he has in years. Standards like How High the Moon and It Could Happen to You comprise the usual teasing introduction and pleasing acquaintanceship. Two Afro-Latin originals, Gemini and Eldorado, burst with exhilarating improvisation...