Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notes on the piano situation at Paine Hall...
...reflected in the current composition of the Grand last, a "serious" attitude towards piano playing is equated with being an advanced piano student. Now while it may be true that many (although certainly not all) advanced pianists are dedicated to their studies it is equally true that many beginning and intermediate students are just as equally dedicated and "serious." Since everyone benefits most from playing a well-tuned, responsive instrument, it seems fair that if a Grand List should be maintained at all, it should reflect more than just the number of years that a student has been studying...
...Grand List students are not allowed to play on the grands at any time, even if one is available. As a result, such a student must often sit idle while a perfectly good piano lies unused, or must watch a Grand List student who has arrived after him begin to practice before him. Not only is this unfair, but it prohibits non-Grand List students from ever using Paine Hall's best pianos...
...some point on the two-levelled stage, shopping carts rifles, Mickey Mouse masks, a bathtub, a television, Twinkies, a refrigerator filled with McDonald's food and beer, walkie-talkie, larger than-life-sized photo stills, a microphone, a campers, a bare lightbulb, a Brown Bruins hat, a piano, a vacuum cleaner, a coffin and--last but not least--water guns. The costumes, which range from the several green aforementioned t-shirts to cheerleader costumes, beautiful long gowns, and red overalls complement the music, which continues during and in between scenes and ranges from classics to jazz to rock 'n roll...
...Orleans in the mid-'60s, he was saying hello to a widely regarded jazz pianist, Ellis Marsalis, who was playing behind Al Hirt. Marsalis had a little boy of six named Wynton at home, and Wynton had an older brother named Branford, who was playing both clarinet and piano by the time he reached second grade. Feeling a few faint nudges of paternal concern that Wynton not fall behind in the musical Futurity Stakes, Ellis hit Hirt for an advance to finance the purchase of a trumpet. "Don't get that boy no trumpet," Davis interrupted...