Word: piano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weird blips and whooshes they describe the loneliness of being 2000 Light Years from Home and lament the computerization of 2000 Man ("'My name is a number, a piece of plastic film"). The prettiest number is She's a Rainbow, a shimmering love song with a Mozartean piano introduction...
Dylan has fashioned a new music to sing this enlightenment by, and like the lyrics it differs sharply from his previous songs. Just as a cascading piano was appropriate for "Queen Jane Approximately," so the new record is rightly driven by muted, subtle rhythms and complex interaction. Dylan and his regular drummer, Kenny Buttrey, seem to have developed the sort of perfect understanding that Bart Starr shares with Carroll Dale. In places all over the record, they groove effortlessly, as at the end of John Wesley Harding when Buttrey pumps the shutters, with Dylan wailing on harp...
...Mines. Meanwhile, Mines has become established in the European repertory, with performances in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden, and one now in preparation in Czechoslovakia. With three operas (including an early one-acter), four string quartets, two symphonies, and a sheaf of smaller pieces to his credit-and a piano concerto and another opera in progress-Bennett has already reached a point envied by most composers and attained by a few: he can live quite comfortably off his royalties...
Overriding Tradition. Silja's life story would make an operatic libretto in itself. The illegitimate child of a Finnish actor and a German actress, she was raised by her grandfather, an unconventional dabbler in voice and piano coaching, fiction, painting and sculpture. He trained her himself, and launched her at twelve on a concert tour. When she was 16, he allowed her to begin her apprenticeship in opera...
Zubin studied violin and piano, but played indifferently and never joined his school orchestra. By the age of eleven, he knew that he was more interested in becoming a conductor like his father, and like the great figures (Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski) that he saw in the 1947 film Carnegie Hall; a fanatic moviegoer to this day, he sat through it six times. His father, discouraged at the prospects for Western music in India, started him in pre-med courses. "Every time I sat down to cut up a dogfish," Zubin recalls, "there I was with a Brahms...