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...piano is dying. So is the pianist -of exhaustion. Or so claims Monique de la Bruchollerie, one of Europe's top concert pianists. Modern piano compositions have become so wickedly difficult to play that to get by today the pianist must be something of a contortionist-gyrating, flailing, crossing hands, crouching spread-eagle fashion to play both ends of the keyboard simultaneously. To rescue both piano and pianist from extinction, Monique has designed a new instrument-a kind of piano on the half shell...
...accessible, she has designed a crescent-shaped keyboard that places the top and bottom keys within easier reach. In addition, she has converted the loud and soft pedals into bars extending the length of the curved keyboard. With feet freed from the center of the piano, she says, the pianist can then swing to either end of the keyboard without having to do a sitdown version of the twist...
...keyboard to expand the sound range of the standard piano (from 27.5 to 4,186 cycles per second) to come closer to the range of the human ear (from approximately 16 to 20,000 cycles). Her most far-reaching innovation is a pushbutton electronic system whereby the pianist can play from two to twelve notes simultaneously by striking one key. In effect, she says, this device "will give the player 30 fingers." It will also allow the piano to be "programmed" like a computer, multiplying its creative potential for modern composers, whose interest in writing for the piano has been...
North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy sent Wallace a telegram criticizing the "white conscience" of Alabama. Pianist Byron Janis protested by canceling a scheduled concert recital in Mobile. In city after city, civil rights groups mounted protest demonstrations. In Selma, the Negroes stood in nightlong vigils under the wary eyes of police. Selma's Negroes and a growing number of white ministers-and even several white Roman Catholic nuns from St. Louis-demonstrated, but they were kept in check, without resort to passion or clubs, by Public Safety Director Baker...
Followed by an impromptu violet spotlight and exploding flashbulbs, she glided down the aisle of a packed Pudding auditorium. A pianist stumbled through "Days of Wine and Roses." The crowd hooted." "This is crazy...marvelous...unabelievable..."she mumbled. Her father, Class of '31, was at the foot of the stage, and she fell into Lis arms crying "Have you ever...