Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIELSEN: PIANO MUSIC (RCA Victor). Keyboard music was incidental to Nielsen's career, but this lustrous release echoes most of his compositions at their very best. British Pianist John Ogdon is ideally suited to his assignment. His calm, intelligent performance gives coherence to Nielsen's sometimes aggressive brilliance, and in quiet, crystalline passages, such as the finale of Chacone, he achieves a purity of tone reminiscent of the late Walter Gieseking...
Even as a youngster in The Bronx, Mel Powell was a brilliantly advanced musician. At least that is the way he remembers it. Of course, his fledgling compositions did not exactly bowl over his piano teacher, who "seemed to prefer Mozart." But it was already clear that Powell was something special. He completed high school at 14, and started a precocious career playing jazz piano. "It turned out," he recalls, with barely a smile of irony, "that I became magnificent...
Powell is obviously a long way from appealing to the mass audience that applauded his jazz piano in the '40s. "My public now," he says, "is the 250 people who come to hear my works along with those of other avant-garde composers." Still, he could hardly ask for a more appreciative audience than those 250 people-or rather...
Above all, the store lives up to its cable address, "Everything, London." The variety of quality goods and services it offers is unequaled in the world. It sells anything from 200 kinds of cheese to a $25,000 French Érard piano decorated with carved brass. The store will calmly take an order for a baby elephant-a $4,800 present for U.S. Republican Ronald Reagan from a friend-or a head of cabbage requested by telephone in the dead of night. It can find the Scottish piper wanted to pipe in the haggis or hire the entire regimental band...
...show the nation a fresh Nixon. So his initial speech was taken up with an explanation of how he had been on the Johnny Carson show and had spoken of his childhood desire to be a concert pianist at which point Mr. Carson suggested that he play the piano for the people now, an offer which was taken up, and then how he felt a thrill of excitement as he played and then more of a thrill as the people in the audience applauded him louder than he had ever heard before. Unfortunately, Mr. Nixon was suddenly...