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Died. Johnnie Johnson, 80, thumping boogie-woogie blues and early rock-'n'-roll pianist who on New Year's Eve 1952 gave Chuck Berry his first break, in Johnson's popular trio, and later, as Berry's bandmate and co-writer, shaped the rock legend's inventive sound; in St. Louis, Mo. Johnson, for whom Berry wrote Johnny B. Goode, slammed the keys on such tunes as Maybellene, Rock & Roll Music and Roll Over Beethoven. Johnson later backed John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, and in 2001 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
Marsalis and the three members of his band, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, will play heartrending ballads from their most recent CD, “Eternal...
DIED. FRANK CONROY, 69, who laid the groundwork for modern confessional memoirs with his acclaimed 1967 debut Stop-Time, an unsentimental chronicle of his painfully nomadic, picaresque childhood; of colon cancer; in Iowa City. The sometime jazz pianist mentored scores of young writers, many of whom became successful novelists, during 18 years as head of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the country's most prestigious creative-writing program...
More precisely, elegant guest pianist Nora I. Bartosik ’08 shone in a brilliant performance, which was more often obscured than complemented by the orchestra...
Following this disappointing performance of an already unsettling composition, the internationally acclaimed pianist Bartosik took the stage to perform Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3.” The introduction performed by the orchestra suggested the second performance would be no better than the first. Although the strings section played in unison and followed the concertmaster well, the winds seemed to be in an entirely different world. Constantly out of sync, the two sections did not seem to share any musical connection...