Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union will launch a new experiment tonight when it furnishes music during the dinner hour, from 6 to 7 o'clock. The orchestra will be composed of three pieces, violin, cello and piano in the charge of William Gresser 2L. This will be tried three times, tonight and the two following Wednesday nights as an added attraction for the Union restaurant...
...program will be opened and closed by piano solos by C. D. Leonard 1G., while H. R. Shoomaker 1G, will perform some feats in magic. B. Mc K. Henry '24, the present President, will explains the organization of the Phillips Brooks House to the men. R. D. Hutchinson 1G, chairman of the executive committee of the Graduate Schools Society, will proabte...
...Pachmann has invented a new technique of piano playing, a technique the characteristic feature of which is a rigidly stiff wrist. He says that until he had reached the age of 70, what he played was trash, as are trash the present performances of other pianists, who use the old technique. De Pachmann embarks upon an extended tour of the U. S. It will be interesting to see how public and critics respond to pragmatic demonstrations of the new technique, which the pianist protagonizes with such spirited phrases...
...order to please its public (not an esthetic public), had to have sound. That sound was music. It is a common feeling with movie fans that a stretch of picture without music seems unnatural. Few people have witnessed a film exhibition without the accompaniment of at least a piano. A certain dramatic stretch of picture may be given a curious flavor and the emphasis of the unusual by keeping the music silent. Why is this? Is it that the human mind demands sound with action? What follows from it? That in the motion picture is a possibility for powerful...
This companion of Presidents has many accomplishments to his credit. He is expert at chasing counterfeiters, at horseback riding, at piano playing. He was the almost invariable companion of President Taft when the latter went riding, and made advance arrangements for the protection of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Harding on their Western tours. Besides being guard to Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, he has been chief of the Presidential guard since...