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...title suggests, The Concert starts at a recital. A mop-haired pianist stalks imperiously across the stage to his waiting instrument, elaborately dusts off the keyboard and then sails into some Chopin pieces. As he plunks away, an audience arrives: a pair of whispering ladies with jangly handbags, a bored cigar chomper and his prissy wife, an ecstatic temptress so caught up in the music that she seems to be seducing the piano. The sequence ends in a parody of musical chairs when an usher discovers that everyone has the wrong ticket stub...
...Should a pianist be paid more if he manages to zip through a concert in half the usual time? The answer, obviously, is no, but the question is not as silly as it sounds. The pay increases that the Government allows during Phase II are supposed to be tied largely to productivity -the value of output per man-hour...
Disillusioned by the success of imitators like Led Zeppelin and Cream when they themselves could not achieve commercial success, the Jeff Beck Group dissolved. Lead singer Rod Stewart and bassist Ron Wood joined the Small Faces where they both became rich and famous, and pianist Nicky Hopkins took to hanging around the Rolling Stones, eventually joining the Quicksilver Messenger Service. Beck was invited to join the Vanilla Fudge but he never had a chance to accept the invitation. Early in 1969 he was involved in an auto accident that was to keep him inactive for almost three years...
...Truth it was performed in a rough, raunchy fashion with plenty of wah-wah pedal added for effect. In the new version, however, the song is performed as a slow blues number. Cozy Powell, the drummer, was good all night, and was brilliant during this number; Max Middleton, the pianist, showed himself to be every bit as good as Nicky Hopkins. Bob Tench, who was troubled by microphone distortion throughout the evening, also seemed to settle down and evoke a great deal of emotion from his voice...
Leonard Bernstein '39--the famous pianist, composer and conductor--will be the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...