Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Andre Previn and J. J. Johnson: Kurt Weill (Columbia). Previn's triple sec piano and Johnson's sudsy trombone breathe new life into Weill's old tunes...
Although he did not reject tonality, he prepared the way for the atonalists by introducing chords outside a composition's signature, producing a feeling of wavering between keys. He would try anything: a friend from the conservatory recalls Debussy's seating himself at the piano and banging out a succession of grinding dissonances as he attempted to imitate the sound of buses rumbling over the cobblestones of the Faubourg Poissoniere. But more important than the technique was the reticence that he restored to concert halls long accustomed to the thunders and tempests of Beethoven and Wagner. No composer...
...Other Reason. Debussy did not start his first important work-the Prelude a I'Aprés-midi d'un Fame-until he was 30. But during the next 15 years, he wrote enough to secure any composers reputation, including the revolutionary piano pieces, in which by deft use of the sustaining pedal he transformed the piano from a percussive to a harmonic instrument. Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, surprised its audience at its 1902 premiere with its lack of crowd-catching arias or easily hummable melodies. But later audiences began...
...morning of his first marriage, to a model named Rosalie Texier, Debussy was so broke that he had to give a piano lesson to pay for the wedding breakfast...
Last week engineers from Illinois Institute of Technology were field-testing the most sensitive leak seeker yet, a device that does its sniffing by sound. The Illinois scientists discovered that if sound waves of 40 cycles per second (a frequency just above the piano's middle G) are fed into a gas main, they will travel down the pipe, escaping along with the leaking...