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...pianist who has been struggling, like the artists you describe [Sept. 3], with poor concert grands in many musical centers of the Western world, including Paris, London, Brussels and Zurich, I would like to find out when Steinway & Sons (by and large the best pianomakers in the world) will stop making concert grands geared exclusively for the Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev type of works and start making again lovely, mellow-sounding instruments suited to playing Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann...
Evening at Pops, starring Eubie Blake, who is 90-years-old and a ragtime pianist. 8 p.m. on channel...
...Washington, D.C., recital recently, Brazilian Pianist Ney Salgado was negotiating the tricky rapids of Ravel's Alborado del Gracioso. Suddenly - oops! - several notes failed to sound. Salgado stopped in midpassage, rose and faced his astonished audience. A memory lapse? Finger cramps? Hardly. "The keys are stuck - I cannot go on," Salgado explained walking offstage...
David Rubin, concert and artists manager at Steinway & Sons, also cites a decline in service. Two weeks ago, Spanish Pianist Alicia de Larrocha struggled valiantly with the stiff action of a Steinway at a recital near Washington, D.C., after a local dealer's technician denied her request for a minor adjustment, insisting that the instrument was in "perfect condition." Misha Dichter, 27, still smarts from the rebuff of a tuner in St. Paul who responded to his complaint about the house piano: "Listen, young whippersnapper, Liberace played it and he liked...
Time: 1950. Scene: Birdland, the now defunct Manhattan cellar where the faithful gathered to hear the latest sounds of bebop. Backstage, the goings on were something less than harmonious, even for bop. The band was taking a vote. It seemed that the house pianist would not contribute to the group's heroin kitty. In fact, he was not interested in drugs at all. That would hardly do, and consequently Billy Taylor was voted out. "I don't know," recalls Taylor, "maybe they thought I was trying to give jazz a good name...