Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ballet Folkorico de Aztlan will perform a sword dance Sunday. Mask making, tie-dying, and drum shows are also scheduled. The musical lineup includes a "jazz jam session," an "evening of romantic music," individual piano performances, and other group performances...
Johnson, who specialized in chamber music and piano as a tutor for the past 10 years, is survived by his sister, Nancy J. Pinard...
Michael Milburn '79 delivered the eulogy at the Wednesday service. Milburn took piano lessons from Johnson in 1976, when he first became a tutor at Winthrop...
...especially effective during the battle scene. Occasionally though, the music is played over several scenes of dialogue, an annoying innovation apparently taken from TV. It ought to have been left there. At one point, the cast makes an ill-advised attempt to sing along to a Mr. Rogers-style piano. For all you kids out there, do whatever you like in the shower, but please, please, DO NOT DO THIS ON STAGE...
...charismatic front man. His piano playing, though inimitable, was hardly virtuoso stuff. But William ("Count") Basie had one supreme gift: he knew how to meld a dozen or more idiosyncratic instrumentalists into a single, pulsing organism with a voice of its own, which was always somehow his voice. The bluesy, stomping bands he led from the mid-1930s until his death in 1984, at age 79, were among the best in jazz history. Not that Basie makes any such claims in Good Morning Blues. On the page as in life, he is a modest man, given to understatement...