Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time became apparent when he chose as co-choreographer Peter Anastos, best known as the former guiding spirit (and as Olga Tchikaboumskaya, prima ballerina) of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male travesty troupe. In such parodies as Go for Barocco (Balanchine) and Yes, Virginia, Another Piano Ballet (Robbins), Anastos has poked amiable, witty fun at the conventions of classical ballet...
...master and his wife, but since they know that they are, a bit of realism manages to creep into the joke. Louise's mother, whom we meet only briefly, cheers characters and reader alike, combining dishpan-hands and a low-class accent with friendliness and a talent for the piano that she even reaches out to a blind...
...frame houses was a field of splintered wood, with undamaged household articles sticking out incongruously. Two rescue workers diverted themselves from the grim task of searching through the debris for bodies by staging an impromptu open-air musicale. One weary young man sat down at an undamaged piano and picked out a tune; a second snatched a toy trumpet from the wreckage of a nearby house and tooted an accompaniment...
...Busonl Intentional Piano competition in 1969 and the Avery Fisher Prize...
From the movie's opening scenes in which Hopper practices piano in a distinctly American living room, the film sets itself up as a voice of patriotism and loyalty. Although Hopper defies his crotchety piano teacher by playing jazz instead of classics and hangs out with the shiftless and disreputable Nicky, the director emphasizes Hooper's innate goodness. He doesn't put on airs to woo the snooty upper class preps who ridicule him at the bowling alley and even when he discovers that Caddie is an upper class "Gatsby girl," he takes pride in his humble, yet honorable, origins...