Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some people are happy in their delusions, and Bobby Short is one of them: he insists upon calling himself a saloon singer. Oh, yes, he will admit, there is no sawdust on the floor of Manhattan's Café Carlyle, where he has been singing and playing the piano for the past 13 years. And, yes, he always works in a dinner jacket tailored on Savile Row-one of ten that hang in his closet. Still, he is quite certain that he is, was and always has been a saloon singer. But then, for all anyone knows, the Queen...
...Mayo Tsuzuki is majoring in Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the hours she once spent at the piano she now spends in the basement of the Science Center disentangling the mysteries of A.M. 110. She insists she gave up any ideas about becoming a concert pianist before she came to Harvard. But her almost wistful ambivalence about that decision, her commitment to future performing, and even the mementos that crowd her Canaday room, all speak of regret that she cannot at least continue to practice regularly. She admits that if she had arrived here last September resolved on pursuing...
...another way, however, Tsuzuki says coming here has strengthened her determination always to have some sort of music in her life. "Coming to Harvard gave me the option of dropping piano altogether," she says, adding. "Not until this year, when the choice was finally mine, did I realize how important to me it really...
Nevertheless, this musician who says her parents would never have allowed her to quit the piano before she finished high school has not had a piano lesson in more than a month. "When I was little my friends used to come over and say, 'Mayo, come out and play,' but my mother would say, 'No, she has to practice,' "she recalls. "Now I can only practice if I have a concert coming...
...obstacles. He plans to give at least six recitals next year, and his strenuous practicing schedule shows no sign of letting up. But the bulk of his musical education, like that of other serious performers at Harvard, will take place outside the classroom. "I'm not here to learn piano performance," he says. "Harvard does not offer piano performance...