Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents was especially religious, but as Strauss once said, "A poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns early how to survive." His father, Charles Strauss, was an aspiring concert pianist who emigrated from Germany in 1915. Landing in New York City, he took a job as a traveling piano salesman. On a swing through Texas, he met and fell in love with Edith Schwartz. The couple married, and Charles Strauss opened a dry- goods store in Stamford that, if it didn't keep the family from being poor, did keep them from being impoverished. There were two children, Robert...
...plays offense the way Chopin played the piano. This year, the Saints have tickled the twines to the tune of a six-goals a game average...
...buzzing gospel conglomerate. As he approached the pulpit, the octagonal Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, La., was packed for the occasion with 8,000 worshipers, 1,000 of them standees, while followers nationwide watched the weekly telecast. This day there was to be none of Swaggart's trademark piano riffing or gospel singing, none of his jig stepping, strutting or shouting. Clad in a severe suit, the TV evangelist waited quietly, then began to speak...
...Ching Chen, this year's winner. The Eliot House sophomore says it was almost on a whim that, in the space of two months, she learned Tchaikovsky's long and demanding first piano concerto, which she will play with the HRO at Sanders Theater tonight...
Since the age of 11, when she took first place in her native Taiwan's national piano competition, the Los Angeles resident has put together an extraordinary string of musical accolades: soloing with the Taipei Municipal Symphony orchestra, playing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic 10 times, and winning a spate of competitions, including the concerto contest at the Manhattan School of Music, where she spent a year before coming to Harvard...