Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promoting new talent, both among the student population and from the greater Cambridge-Boston area, the Dunster House Music Society sponsors its first concert of the year this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. Gerry Itzkoff will present a half-hour of violin classic pieces, accompanied by John Adams on piano. The performance is in the Dunster House Library, at the second floor of F entryway...
...nuts and bolts of HRE's new performance space policies may not seem dramatic, but they bely an underlying confusion over priorities. Most of the changes force student groups to pay for HRE-provided services--such as piano moving, concessions and ushering--which the organizations performed on their own before...
...Once you start singing," Berlin said in later years, "you start thinking of writing your own songs. It's as simple as that." Although he could not read or write music (he never did learn), he could pick out a melody on the piano in the key of F sharp. In 1909 Berlin, now calling himself Irving because it sounded tonier, landed a $25-a-week job with a Tin Pan Alley publisher. Two years later, he picked his way into American musical history with Alexander's Ragtime Band. More a march than a rag, it made Berlin famous, erroneously...
Vermont's Michael Arnowitt, on the other hand, is one man who has taken on the ambitious project of performing all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas...
...from the beginning the performance was almost too controlled and too precise in the first portion of the program. Several crescendo passages in the first and last movements of the first sonata seemed tentative and lacking in the forceful intensity that the listener expected. In addition several of the piano passages were uneven in tone. His rendition of a passage in the Largo appassionata movement of the second sonata, however was breathtaking in its delicate beauty...