Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...travels surrounded by four bodyguards, stays in $200-a-night hotel suites and hands out $5 tips. His hosts are often given precise instructions to provide him with a telephone at all times, a bed for a nap in the afternoon, even a piano to play by night. Security guards at his Washington headquarters are supplied with his picture and told never to ask for his identification. The United States Information Agency (then called the International Communication Agency) was a neglected foreign policy backwater before Charles Z. Wick, 66, became its director in 1981, but the former Hollywood moviemaker, venture...
...N.Y.S.E.'S worst casualty of 1983 was Cincinnati's Baldwin-United, the piano maker turned insurance giant. After expanding too boldly into financial services, the company in September filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. California toymaker Mattel was zapped by the collapse of the video-game craze, and its stock fell sharply. Pennsylvania-based Nutri/System, which operates a chain of weight-loss centers, fell from grace when earnings slumped after it acquired an executive job placement service and a cosmetics firm. Anacomp, an Indianapolis data processor, had problems with some software products, and its stock tumbled. The drop...
Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Piano Music (Nonesuch). Griffes' unique brand of American romantic impressionism gets a persuasive reassessment from...
Whether forlornly ruminating on Alec Wilder's I'll Be Around, with a lonely piano and solitary celeste offering gentle support, or swinging easy with Cole Porter's Just One of Those Things against a background of burbling saxophones, or punching out Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's Five Minutes More in front of some antiphonal spitfire trumpets that would have made Gabrieli gladly forsake San Marco for the recording studio, Sinatra is a master of mood and vocal nuance. He can ornament a line, subtly altering its rhythm, or bend just a single note...
Elliott Carter: Night Fantasies; Piano Sonata (Nonesuch). One of the landmarks of 20th century keyboard music, the Sonata (1945-46) is definitively Interpreted by the late Paul Jacobs...