Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devises and successfully executes a plan to draft Lyndon B. Johnson, put him in uniform complete with butterfly net, and ship him off to the rice paddies." Potential applicants for the prize may be put off by Gibson's payoff record: he volunteered to play honky-tonk piano at a local fund-raising benefit for Senator Eugene McCarthy-and reneged the moment the McCarthyites tried to take him up on the offer...
...SATIE: PIANO MUSIC VOL. 2 (Angel). Back in the days of Dada, Erik Satie wrote music scored for typewriters, airplane propellers, Morse tickers and lottery wheels. A Montmartre cabaret pianist, he was also a serious composer, puncturing the overblown romanticism of his time by turning out short wry works with such titles as Veritable Flabby Preludes (for a Dog), Disagreeable Sketches, and Chapters Turned Every Which Way. His 50-year-old tidbits still sound fresh and impudent, and are enjoying something of a vogue, due partly to their crisp presentation by Aldo Ciccolini...
...BRAHMS: PIANO TRIOS (Philips World Series; 2 LPs). Severely self-critical, Brahms may have destroyed three times the number of compositions he saved. He left only three published works for violin, cello and piano. A fourth, which the Beaux Arts Trio has recorded for the first time, is attributed to the youthful Brahms by a scholar who found the unsigned manuscript in 1924. The well-known B Major is still the strongest of the trios, and its adagio is beautifully sung by the deep bronze-voiced cello of Bernard Greenhouse, the American-born member of the international Beaux Arts Trio...
...borrowed station wagon and a rented trailer crammed with hand-me-down costumes from Balanchine and discarded scenery from the Metropolitan Opera. They danced in movie theaters, veterans' halls and gymnasiums; music was provided by a borrowed tape recorder or one of the dancers who dashed to a piano between his numbers. To ensure their footing, they often had to sprinkle a tacky coating of Coca-Cola on freshly waxed stages, many of which were so cramped that when it came time for a lift, the ballerinas would disappear into the flies...
Dance has also arrived in suburbia, where leotards and toe shoes are beginning to replace the piano as a culture symbol. Manhattan has 70 dance schools, greater Washington, D.C., has 60. Says one Manhattan teacher, surveying the proliferating schools: "They're like bookies -there's one in every basement." Each September, when Balanchine's School of American Ballet holds auditions, the line of hopefuls stretches around the block. The few who are accepted are properly proud and even a little haughty. Says Nanette Glushak, 17, of Manhattan: "We saw a movie of Pav lova the other...