Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could pack Sanders Theater, but pack it did Wednesday night. An audience so large that many were standing along the back walls heard Bruce Simonds, dean of the Yale Music School, and George Brown, a member of that school's faculty, play three of Beethoven's five sonatas for piano and cello and 12 Variations on a Theme by Mozart...
...unfortunate in view of the crowd that the concert, sponsored by the Harvard Department of Music, was not better. Mr. Brown, playing the cello, rarely matched the musicianship of his partner. The Piano part was played by Mr. Simonds in a fashion that left little to be desired. Not only was it technically excellent, but there was enough personality and feeling injected into it to make it brilliant...
Bruce Simonds, Dean of the Yale School of Music, and George Brown of Yale will present a program of Beethoven works for piano and violincello tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theater. The concert will be sponsored by the Department of Music...
...composer who discovered his special niche at the keyboard at seven, with his first polonaise, and seldom strayed from it. His family and friends implored him to write operas, symphonies, oratorios. But he called the piano "my solid ground; on that I stand the strongest." His compositions, with their poetry, fire and freshness, never came easily: "Before I have said my last word, I must go through horrible pangs and tribulations, with many tears and sleepless nights...
Another example of feathered intelligence was a pigeon used last year, who was taught to play a seven-note tune on a piano--more than a great many people...