Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union's most promising young pianists. Then he applied to the authorities for an emigration visa. Suddenly his engagements were canceled, his recordings yanked off the radio. Even a private performance at Spaso House, the U.S. Ambassador's official residence in Moscow, was marred when the piano was mysteriously vandalized before the concert. Apart from a few performances, mostly on battered uprights in remote villages, Feltsman was a musical nonperson...
...baker buys a piano because he cannot make one, and yet, rightly or wrongly, he judges the possession of a piano to be necessary for his pleasure, stature, worth. The piano maker, in turn, may buy TIME magazine because, rightly or wrongly, he deems TIME necessary for his pleasure, stature, worth. Only God knows who gets the better of such deals, but the fact is that the deals are not only economic but social transactions, which have been conducted continually since the first tradesman said to a customer, "I will not give you what I have done for nothing...
...Brahms?" asks an old joke making light of the composer's changing musical idiom. But if the composer had always written music like his three sonatas for violin and piano, the witticism would never have gained currency. Far removed from the composer's youthful sturm und drang, these autumnal pieces represent a tempered and philosophical old master...
...Hofbrau Boys Bavarian Band, which played traditional German folk songs, encouraging the audience to sing along and dance. Other attractions were kiddie rides, street musicians and jugglers. There was even an authentic 1926 player piano which, upon the audience's request, played old favorites such as "Rhapsody in Blue" from piano rolls...
When Shere was 14, she became frustrated with her grandparents and joined an aunt and uncle in Daytona Beach, Fla. An intelligent and resilient child with a flair for music, she was a piano soloist at her baccalaureate ceremony at Daytona Beach's Seabreeze High School in 1960. With money supplied by her grandfather, she attended the University of Florida, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history with honors...