Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painting is shaped like the top of a piano, but at first glance you can tell that it isn't a piano. Hang so that the point faces down, the top fifth is a black stucco-like strip. The bottom, a triangle, is a mixture of grey, green and purple; all of which may add up to an upside-down sail, or as the artist. John Ahr '86 says, a type of a peepshow...
...London. Eldest Daughter Cordelia has finally given up the violin, much to the relief of her mother and siblings, who believe, as Rose, the narrator, says, that "to play an instrument badly was as shameful as any crime short of murder." Rose and her twin sister Mary practice the piano daily and dream of their futures on concert stages across Europe. The precocious little brother, Richard Quin, grows more charming, while Cousin Rosamund, withdrawn and beautiful, becomes effectively a member of this fatherless family...
...terrific basketball player and might have gone places had he not left school around the eighth grade to begin a life of work. Relating this memory, Larry's brother Mark, 31, conveys an understanding affection for the man who was at times the best finisher at the Kimball Piano & Organ Co. A shorter and fleshier version of Larry, Mark shares the features right down to the yellow mustache...
...Revolution. France, which almost completely surrounds the city, annexed it in 1798, but after the fall of Napoleon it finally became the 22nd canton of Switzerland. By then it was just a peaceful backwater. Franz Liszt came here after eloping with the Countess d'Agoult, and he composed a piano piece inspired by the city's church bells. "Happy is he who can stay long by these shores," wrote another aristocratic visitor, Lord Byron...
...group, now in its first year, is the only campus music society funded by the Music Department. The organization is geared toward helping student composers, said graduate student William K. Eldridge, whose "Sonata for Cello and Piano" is included in today's concert...