Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bizarre advice: sell California real estate fast because the San Andreas Fault is about to part "like a Talon zipper right down the coast some time after May 1981." He is now having a chimpanzee trained to play his theme song, The Bagholder's Blues, on the piano. Granville does not charge for these appearances. Instead, he views them as chances to sign up additional subscribers for the newsletter...
...real love is the past and those tuneful shows that they just don't seem to write any more. "Most of the new musicals are not melodic or inventive enough," complains Research Consultant Alfred Simon, who helps the Goodspeed pick its golden oldies. Simon, 72, who played piano for George Gershwin during rehearsals for Of Thee I Sing (1931), has seen almost every Broadway musical since the 1920s and every year prepares a list of half a dozen possible candidates. "I look for good tunes and reasonably good books," he says. "I also look for shows that haven...
...creed. For the Royal Ballet, he has whirled up Rhapsody, a dazzling, sun-drenched frolic that premiered last week as part of England's birthday tribute to the Queen Mother. There is no plot except from the music, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini for piano and orchestra...
...Mikhail Baryshnikov, who is appearing as a guest artist. Ashton has created unexampled leaps and spins (and combinations of the two), as if he saw in Baryshnikov the spirit of Paganini, who raised violin virtuosity to a demonic level, and of Rachmaninoff, who did much the same for the piano. The charm of the work is that it never becomes the visual equivalent of piano busting, a mere showcase...
...Martinique the author has an audience with one of the island's aging aristocrats, an enchantress whose piano playing attracts an exotic group of listeners: green, scarlet and lavender chameleons. Abandoned on a Connecticut country road, Capote meets a widow who shelters him in her cottage and shows him a freezer full of dead cats, old pets she could not bear to part with. Two policemen wait at a Los Angeles airport boarding gate to arrest Capote for ignoring a subpoena to testify in a murder case he had researched. The situation looks hopeless until he runs into Pearl...