Word: pianos
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...high point of the Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition, which brought musicologists, performers and instrument makers to the city for a week-long conference on the proper performance of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. Abandoned now is the practice of booming Bach out of a modern grand piano; forsworn, too, is the "sewing machine" school of Baroque interpretation, which made 500 pieces by one composer sound like the same piece written 500 times. Today's early music specialists have developed techniques and virtuosity that allow them to perform with a freedom of interpretation that was unknown 30 years...
Founder and captain of his high school math team--which won two California statewide championships--Smith is graduating with honors in chemistry and physics. He also produced this year's Lowell House opera, "The Elixir of Love," has played the piano since he was four, has rung the Lowell House bells for the past three years, has worked summers as a park ranger in the West and plans to go to divinity school when he returns from Sikkim...
...theworld." With marriage as the primary goal in 1956, most recall looking back on the previous four years with a feeling of satisfaction. Merle M. Bowser made a list right before Commencement of things to do for the rest of her life. First she wanted to buy a piano, then go to Europe. A graduate degree was a lower priority, about on a par with obtaining her own car. And, of course, she would find a husband along the way. "I was happy with my list, and all the things on it worked out," she says. "Only I forgot...
...Music buffs, if they concentrate hard, can probably glean from Dickson's anecdotes some sense of the excitement it must have been to work closely with Fiedler over the years, and feel the star-watcher's thrill at the Pops parade of brilliant guest performers; those who suffered through piano lessons and drillwork can catch the allusion and laugh at jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's assertion that his keyboard prowess can' from playing "lots and lots of Czerny when I was a kid." But what excitement and color come through does so painfully, in spite of Dickson's uncertain, cliche...
Short began life there in 1924, the son of a black coal miner in Danville, Ill. He taught himself to play the piano when he was three or four, and when he was eleven, he went touring the country as the Miniature King of Swing. The king was soon deposed, however. Bookings became scarce after a couple of years, and Bobby returned to Danville to finish high school. After that, it was back to the piano and the saloons of Chicago, and then Los Angeles, where he stayed, off and on, for more than a decade. He made one brief...