Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What no one-including Bargy, her husband and her friends-was prepared for was the astonishingly tender look which TV's normally harsh eye gives Jeanne at the piano. A tall, earnest girl with no pretensions to beauty, Jeanne Bargy on television somehow becomes small, sadly romantic and nicely sexy. Her songs (the blues in Blues by Bargy refer more to her voice than her repertory) are plaintive ballads; her delivery and pace are a restful contrast to TV's frequently scratchy and perfervid fare, her touch on the keyboard deft, efficient and unobtrusive...
...Hollywood. But he has not yet found much time to visit with the man he usually refers to as "my father," but sometimes as "Stravinsky." He has been too busy "living with Scarlatti" (he will record some sonatas for Allegro records this week) and preparing for his first U.S. piano concert tour. All summer, he taught piano six hours a day at the Music Academy of the West, in Santa Barbara...
...trouble lay in the way it was put to paper, with a confusion of sharps, flats and keys. In his Klavarscribo method ("marvelously simple, simply marvelous," says Pot happily), all of that is eliminated by indicating notes (and measures) on vertical lines that correspond to the keys of the piano, black notes for black keys, white for white...
...basketball team, progressed from near illiteracy to lead the college literary society; he had decided on a career as a writer when he discovered that his true genius was musical. For Thurs, it was a short step from hymns on the harmonica to composing a fugue for the piano. In short, he might have been voted most likely to succeed had not his wrestling the "Christian system" left him at the end of the book to face life with some unorthodox views...
...time she got through Caravan, everyone knew Mary Lou was feeling all right. She had always relied more on her piano than her personality, and this time, bobbing to the beat with an impish smile, she was giving them everything-boogie-beat, bop-beat ("You don't hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land...