Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thumb's midget piano has been kept in tune, stands ready to accompany that piping tune with which the General delighted Queen Victoria: Yankee Doodle...
Beside the piano rests demurely the very stool upon which sat "that dissolute midget, Commodore Nutt," when he held his once world famous conversation with P. T. Barnum...
...Morningside Heights. The Columbia Gymnasium was packed by people who had come not only to hear Professor Walter Henry Hall lead his symphony orchestra through Beethoven's overture to "Egmont" and Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" overture, but likewise to investigate an extraordinary item printed in the pro- gram: Piano concerto in D major Mozart...
...performance quite as smooth and sophisticated as the conversation he had let fall from Trojan and Hellenic lips in his literary surprise. Once a breeze ruffled the music. Unruffled himself, Pianist Erskine caught the sheets and proceeded without a hitch. Once, to the dismay of the accompanying violins, the piano made an unexpected departure from the score, necessitating a momentary halt. "My fault," apologized the professor gravely, and resumed the cadenza. Prolonged applause honored this coolness as much as the technical skill, but loud cries of "Encore, Erskine!" did not distract the whimsical professor from his next business of moment...
...twenty, the already famous Liszt. Von Lenz played Aufforderung zum Tanz* and then other music by Weber. The glitter of a dagger in the sun was in the eyes of Liszt, and he put down his long Turkish pipe, amazed. He had never heard of Weber's piano music, and he solemnly pledged eternal gratitude to Von Lenz from Riga for having introduced to him such beauty. He had known only Weber's universally popular opera Frieschütz.š And young Weber had been dead nearly two years...