Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dunster House resident Alice Y. Kiang '86 died after a long illness. An Applied Math concentrator who played piano in the Harvard Ensemble Society. Kiang suffered from a rare blood disease that attacked her immune system...
...year that inspired him, but he stresses that he has not taken the conventional approach. "I wasn't so interested in the music department in general--it seemed to require a lot of things I didn't want to study." Although he is an accomplished clarinetist and has studied piano since coming to college, Rothenberg does not consider himself primarily a classically trained musician. He feels he has not had much of the basic standard instruction in performance and music theory, and downplays his proficiency. Rather, he emphasizes the other facets of music he has pursued: jazz, improvisation and composition...
...earlier Music 2b lecture, Forbes, seated at the piano tried to communicate his excitement for the music, saying "see If you don't share with me a certain wonder...
...rotund man with the barrel chest and impeccable mustache would sit down at the piano, pop his fingers a couple of times to get the rhythm just right and, boom, his band would take off. Reeds and brasses would blast out in an ensemble sharp enough to shave with, trombones explosively punctuating the seductive murmurs of the saxophones. As the smoke cleared, there would be the piano, light and airy in the right hand, gentle in the left, keeping the whole thing together. "I'm only part of the rhythm section," William (''Count") Basie would...
...insurance executive, Adams was raised in San Francisco in a chalet-like house overlooking the Golden Gate. He learned to play the piano under the stern tutelage of a German music instructor, who taught him, he later said, the necessity of technical excellence in the pursuit of artistic expression. In 1916 Adams took along a Kodak box Brownie on a trip to Yosemite Valley, and what he saw through that lens awakened the taste of a lifetime. The mountains gave him not only his subject but an occupation: as a youth he took a caretaker's job there...