Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...armies of Israel into battle; King David sitting in judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp; David, old and a prophet, remembering past enchantments and past ills-this cycle in the sounds of a limited wind-choir, a piano, harmonium, celesta, double-bass and percussion, was heard last week in Manhattan -Arthur Honegger's "Symphonic Psalm," performed by the Society of the Friends of Music...
...Philharmonic players through the tonal roast beef of Beethoven's "Dedication of the House"; Josef Hofmann exquisitely played his own "Sanctuary" (composed under the name of Dvorsky); millions listened on the radio. Among the guests, with bustling pride, moved four gentlemen who have made their money in the piano business-Henry, Theodore, William, Frederick Steinway (TIME, June 29), grandsons of the original Heinrich Steinweg...
...known by those who charge us with lack of courtesy--that, with the exception of two of the Yale songs, none of the songs of those colleges which are our opponents on the gridiron are available at any price in band arrangement, and in some cases even vocal or piano copies are not to be obtained with ease. On the other hand such Harvard songs as "Our Director" and "Veritas" are standard marches and can be purchased at any time in band arrangement, and In some cases even vocal or piano copies are not to be obtained with ease...
...made a rich "shot" (haul). Mack told him he should get married now and buy a mortgage on the Sirilund trading station. So Hartvigsen gave his silver for a mortgage. He also talked with Rosa as Mack suggested. They were agreed. He enlarged his house, bought doves and a piano, stretched his mighty arms. He scarcely noticed Rosa pucker her nose when he boasted of his money and compared himself to Mack...
...have just returned from a week-end visit . . . where I heard a piano demonstrated whose tones grow or die as the performer chooses. I heard the volume in creased after the tone had been struck ... all this without in any degree altering the characteristics or the piano tone...