Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUNT THE WAYS, by Peter De Vries. Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet...
...COUNT THE WAYS, by Peter De Vries. Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet...
...went on to introduce many of Bartok's works -- including a piece for violin, piano and clarinet which he played with Bartok and Benny Goodman...
...masquerade. De Vries stands appalled at the equations of life, and cracks tragic jokes about it. The stuff of Let Me Count the Ways would be funny if De Vries' characters didn't bleed. Is it comedy or tragedy, for instance, when Stanley Waltz, the Polack piano mover in this slice of Midwestern life, ruptures himself trying to haul his piano-sized paramour into the bedroom? Is it really hilarious that Stanley spends night after night in his own yard watching his own wife undress, and must then justify this irrational behavior to the police? And when another...
...program, to be conducted by Victor Manusevitch, will include the first local performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 47: Mo-zart's Piano Concerto in B-Flat, K. 456, with Israeli planist David Barillan as soloist: and Mendelssohn's rarely heard Symphony No. 1 in C-Minor...