Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contrary to the more conventional patterns of the music business, he makes fine music that also sells. In the ten years since he won the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, he has sold 3,000,000 albums-more than 1,000,000 of them the version of the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto that vanquished Moscow. His collection, My Favorite Chopin, has been on the classical bestseller lists for 138 weeks...
...after an especially strenuous program. The Andante, however, was played with considerable feeling. The primary problems of the orchestra in this work and throughout the concert were essentially a lack of stylistic homogeneity within the violin section, insufficient attention to phrasing and a peculiar inability to play a genuine piano. Each of the orchestra's winds performed admirably. Mr. Adams tended to exaggerate accompaniment figures and often failed to convey a sense of relaxation to the ensemble, but was a gifted conductor nevertheless...
...could never match, they had all the paraphernalia of strength: sweat socks, Erector sets, laundry bags full of shoulder pads, aircraft carrier models, framed photos of The Varsity, dirty books, baseball cards and pup tents, while you got the leftovers: paper dolls, hair curlers, bedmaking, frilly underwear, dishwashing, piano lessons, pajama parties. As you grew older, things got more confusing: boys went on fishing trips with their fathers, you were taken shopping by your mother; boys covered themselves with grease, you learned to pick out the right color hair ribbon; boys stayed out late at night, you babysat...
...solution to the dilemma has finally appeared. Several piano companies, notably Wurlitzer, Baldwin and the CBS subsidiary Fender Rhodes, have developed electronic piano laboratories in which as many as 24 students, each with a piano, can be taught at the same time by a single teacher. All the students use earphones. From a master control panel at his own electronic piano, the teacher can speak or play to all or one of the students, or can listen to one or all over his own earphones. What a youngster plays is usually heard only by himself except at those moments when...
Those are the advantages that led Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music to run a six-month pilot study of the program earlier this year with the Baldwin version of the electronic piano. Says Dr. Dean Boal, dean of the school: "We had a kind of 1984 apprehension about the system when it first arrived. But not any more. Though it gives a good approximation of real piano sound, though its touch is reasonably realistic, obviously it will never replace the conventional piano. You can succeed with it only if you do not ask it to do things...