Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This attitude, she insists, is one of the main reasons the facilities are so poor. She recalls a run-in with a department secretary who controlled the keys to all the piano practice rooms. "When I asked her for the key to the grand piano, she looked up at me with this little smile and said. "You mean the pianos downstairs aren't good enough...
Krash joins the chorus of Harvard pianists who bemoan the inaccessibility of the Music Department's new Bosendorfer grand (believed by some to be the finest brand of piano in the world today). Only professors and graduate composition classes are allowed to use the instrument, which is kept locked up at all times. "The department seems to feel that instruments somehow get used up if you play them," she says. "Of course they deteriorate just as quickly if you don't play them...
Christoph Wolff, chairman of the department, addresses the piano issue more specifically. "We do have quite a number of pianos, although not all of them are in the best of shape," he says, adding. "We are about to improve the situation and rebuilding is in effect...
...fact, David Cybulski, who is in charge of piano mainte ance at Harvard, has rebuilt eight of the University's 60-plus pianos this year. But the rebuilding process is extremely slow--taking time away from his equally important duties in piano tuning and upkeep--and over Cybulski's five years here he has completed only 12 instruments...
...plaque above her desk reads "Life is like a piano--what you get out of it depends on how you play it." Her note pads bear the legend "quarter note," and her stationary is covered with small flowering G-clefs. Last December, in what she describes as "the most important thing that's ever happened to me," she soloed with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic, and this summer she will travel as far as Tokyo to give her third recital in the city's most prestigious concert hall...