Word: pianists
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...classroom: how to dance without tripping over a microphone cord, how to improvise when a prop disappears or scenery just won't move, how to entice an audience distracted by weather or a crying child or a plateful of food. Says Steven Fox, 24, a singer and pianist at Pennsylvania's Hersheypark: "Our show takes place in a restaurant. We call it performing at McDonald's. For every person who came to see us, another wanted spare ribs...
Wesley Snipes also turns in a strong performance as the competitive and ambitious Shadow. His fine portrayal is certainly aided by the fact that his character is the most believable. Giancarlo Esposito, who plays the quintet's flashy pianist, deserves mention as well. Nothing ill can be said of the remainder of the cast, who do not disappoint...
...life in West Berlin and the Federal Republic as a vast improvement over their previous existence. Many are baffled that anyone should think their presence worthy of comment. "Living as a Jew in Germany is , just like living in America," says Alex Kozulin, 31, a Russian-born pianist who came to West Berlin via Israel twelve years ago. "I don't feel I have any enemies." Heiner Ulmer, 40, the son of Polish concentration-camp survivors who settled in Bamberg after the war, is more emphatic. Says the high school teacher: "I'm a German. I was born here...
...medieval kingdom of Transylvania in Romania, three decades of Ceausescu misrule have emptied shops and condemned people to a dreary life in ill-lighted, poorly heated apartments. But the Ceausescu era did not kill the arts. At a recent Rachmaninoff concert performed by the Cluj Philharmonic Orchestra, the pianist was superb. Cost: less than...
...everything from salsa to jazz. Especially jazz. "I bought a Charlie Parker record, and I thought, "Wow! This is incredible." I tried to learn Parker's licks on the banjo, but I couldn't find the notes." One day, in a high school jazz-appreciation class, the teacher played pianist Chick Corea's Spain -- for Bela, another revelation. "It was just so immediate. It was a light going on and a door opening...