Word: piano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tunes, and producer George Martin, who writes the rest of what you hear on the record. Martin knows all the musical technique anyone will ever need: as a musicologist, he has at is command every classical trick in the book, as a record producer, he knows how to make piano strings sound like the winds of Hell. He can conjure up anything the Beatles call for, and he is responsible for many of the "wee bits" in Sgt. Pepper...
...dealer for Yamaha pianos, I often state to customers that Yamaha International is the largest manufacturer of pianos in the world. In reading your August 4th issue, I find the statement that Aeolian Corp. is the world's largest piano manufacturer. In 1966, Yamaha manufactured over 100,000 pianos, twice that of Aeolian...
...program opened and closed with two "heavies" from choral literature. Brahms' Schick-salslied, Op. 54, is one of those perrenial favorites of college glee clubs, not terribly difficult to put together and always effective. The singers also made the most of Holderlin's Weltschmerz. Accompanist Robert Kopelson's two-piano arrangement was the best thing next to a full orchestra. He and Lowell Lindgren played it admirably, managing to succeed in spite of Prof. Schmidt's inconquerable compulsion to conduct even them...
Such a background gives Barenboim a fresh and unabashed outlook on some of the challenging peaks of the piano repertory. Most pianists refrain from tackling Beethoven's 32 sonatas until their ripest years. Barenboim had learned them at 14, played them in a cycle of concerts in London last spring, and is now recording them all on the Angel label. "If you could work to an ideal interpretation, then you'd have to wait to record everything on the day before you die," he says. "All music is something that's made at a certain time...
...born pianist. Nor was the lord content to live off his rents, for he loved music, and he journeyed about the realm, setting up festivals in Yorkshire, managing the Royal Opera, and organizing the Edinburgh music festival. When he returned home, wife Marion would soothe her lord with her piano music. And so they lived-everyone thought happily-with their three sons in their palatial country house near Leeds...