Word: piano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After graduation from high school in 1959, Ikeya got a job at a piano factory, where he is now a key polisher and earns $72.22 per month-enough to leave $6 per month for astronomy expenses after he contributes to the support of his mother and five brothers and sisters. Constructing his own 6-and 8-in. telescopes, Ikeya began scanning the sky in 1962 and discovered his first comet the following year...
...this is a long way from the steamy atmosphere of the familiar Dylan outcry, and Dylan's own musical style has kept pace with his growing control over poetic expression. His melodic style has deepened; the bluesy Dear Landlord (in which Dylan accompanies himself on a tinny barroom piano) is a subtle, intense, spacious tune. Moreover, there are times when he abandons his customary foghorn speech-song in favor of something identifiable as singing...
...table in an RCA Victor recording studio in Manhattan and listened to a playback. The cello came on with a rhapsodic, throbbing solo. "Very beautiful," sighed the old man, and tapped Cellist David Soyer approvingly on the knee. Then, a gnarled passage for piano and strings. "No," said the old man, "that's not so good. Here Brahms makes a trap, and we fell in. What shall...
Alicia was only four at the time, but her reaction was as perspicacious as it was prophetic. Granados, who turned out a substantial body of operas, songs and other kinds of music, was above all a composer for the piano. He blended an instinctive Spanish flavor with French impressionism and the Chopin-Liszt tradition to produce a heady and original style, flowing with romantic feeling yet tempered and refined by elegant workmanship. His six-part suite, Goyescas, which powerfully evokes the gaudy, sensual world of Goya's paintings and tapestries, stands with Albe-niz' Iberia at the pinnacle...
...says, the Spanish musical idiom has "the same quality that our great flamenco dancers have-the sense of excitement held tightly under control. With this comes the quality of seduction, a certain haughtiness, or pride." She has absorbed that idiom thoroughly. Both her mother and aunt studied piano with Granados, and her own teacher, the late Frank Marshall, was a notable Granados disciple. Today, when she is not hopping continents to keep up with her steadily expanding concert schedule, she directs the piano academy that Granados founded in Barcelona. Among the faculty: her aunt and her husband, Juan Torra...