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...inner reaches of A Severed Wasp share some of the same intricacy, the same denseness, and finally the same frustration. Tracing the first summer of retirement of Katherine Vigneras, a world-renowned pianist, Wasp gradually unfolds the story of Katherine's tribulation-filled career and life through her encounters with a group of bishops and deans of St. John the Divine's Cathedral in New York City, where she has at last settled down for good. She has always tended to accumulate proteges, and within two weeks of her arrival she is heavily involved in the lives of a career...
...Chemistry concentrator graduated from the College summa cum laude. He was an accomplished pianist, who had participated in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Glee Club...
DIED. James Hubert ("Eubie") Blake, 100, durable ragtime composer and lyricist (Charleston Rag and I'm Just Wild About Harry); just five days after his centennial, following a bout of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. A onetime bordello pianist and a contemporary of Scott Joplin, Blake electrified Broadway in 1921 with his music for Shuffle Along. For the next 25 years the modest, unassuming composer enjoyed steady success before sliding into semiobscurity. His music was rediscovered in the '60s and eventually celebrated in such Broadway shows as 1979's Eubie...
...people like to laugh, and they love those who can make them do so. Having discovered that vintage truth, he became the class clown. Says he: "I think it's every comedian's story." He was developing another crowd-pleasing talent as well; he was a fine pianist who concocted melodies easily. He vaulted over the class barrier by winning a scholarship in music to Oxford; by the time he left with two degrees in 1958, he was an accomplished Garner-style jazzman and the prolific composer of tunes for local skits and cabarets. "Dudley has always...
...when he teamed with three other Oxbridge grads-Cook, Miller and Alan Bennett-in the satirical review Beyond the Fringe. Moore's most brilliant contributions were at the keyboard, in a lampoon of Myra Hess playing the "Moonlight"Sonata and in a hilarious, dizzy bit about a pianist who is unable to conclude a coda to a florid piece. The show played for four years to packed houses, first in London, then in New York. When it ended, Moore and Cook went on to do a television series and five movies, including Bedazzled, their zany version of the Faust...