Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wearing enough clothes. In 1947 she married FinancierPhilanthropist William Hale Harkness, inherited his fortune in Standard Oil holdings when he died seven years later. Searching for a vocation "superior to the way of life I was born to-society," she took a stab at interior decorating, sculpting and piano playing, eventually turned to writing semiclassical music...
Beeson's association with opera began in his boyhood back home in Muncie, Ind., when he tuned in Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on two radios -for the stereophonic effect-then accompanied the Met singers on his piano. Since then, while teaching composition at Columbia University, he has written four operas, several orchestral and chamber works...
...seventh International Chopin Piano Competition began with a cloud of controversy and ended with a puff of perfume. As the field of 83 contestants was whittled down, one U.S. entrant who was eliminated lodged a sourgrapes complaint that the judges (14 from Communist nations, seven from Western countries) were "unfair" in advancing all twelve Russian and Polish performers. Yet when the final round opened last week, for the first time in the 38-year history of the competition (held every five years, except for an interruption during the war) there was not a single Russian in contention. If anything...
...hundred metronomes went ticktack, ticktack during the 15-minute performance of Györgi Ligeti's composition, Poème Symphonique. A toy gun popped, a yellow umbrella flipped open, while Soloist David Tudor banged directly on the piano strings with a hammer, executing John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The movie collage Breathdeath offered a drawn foot coming out of Richard Nixon's mouth. In French Playwright Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside...
Most significantly The Comedy was the only piece in which there was improvisation. The three clowns would dance together to a theme, and when Lewis took improvisational choruses on the piano, an individual dancer also improvised, with the other two comping a pattern behind. The audience applauded the improvisations the way they would the musical improvisations the way they would the musical improvisations of a chorus at a jazz concert...