Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elvis's bodyguards--a big deep-voiced beefy man with a Tennessee suntan. He is dressed garishly--silk shirt with palm trees and white bucks. On his finger is a huge gold ring. The ring is made up of huge letters; the majascules arranged in the shape of a piano with diamond rings. It spells "STAMPS." "Elvis gave this to me," he says. He speaks softer when he talks personally. Gadlock is standing behind a souvenir table. Someone wants to know how much the 8 x 10 glossies are. Someone behind the table asks color or black and white...
...Moscow and brought back some Soviet TV footage never before seen in the U.S. One sequence depicted draftsmen, incongruously garbed in what looked like chefs' aprons and hats, drawing up what appeared to be missile blueprints (the Soviets refused to specify what was going on) while a piano boomed classical music in the background...
...weekend, with three more premieres to come, Robbins had very strong entries. For opening night he created a gossamer duet for Darci Kistler and Ib Andersen to the second movement of the Piano Concerto No. 1. The dancers seem to be skating-two very young lovers etching their joy on a pond by moonlight. This is a charming little lyric that never takes itself, or figure skating, seriously. Still, in the subtle use of half-and three-quarter-point work for the radiant Kistler, Robbins manages to give toe shoes the rocking balance of a skate blade...
Robbins' longer work, Piano Pieces, was an immediate hit. In it he gives some deservedly obscure Tchaikovsky piano works the elegance of Chopin and catches the bursting talents of more young stars. The ballet's best pas de deux shows the fleet wit of Heather Watts and Bart Cook, who always seem to see the double side of life. The choreographer also notes the rippling serenity of Kyra Nichols, who sometimes seems unaware of the audience. Most of all, Robbins shows off Ib Andersen. Since he has four new roles, this might even be called an Ib Andersen...
...play tennis, but I don't win tournaments, so I didn't know what to do with it," said Pianist André-Michel Schub, 28, hoisting his silver trophy high over his head Bjorn Borg-style after winning the sixth Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Piano Competition...