Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...socks away his money, partly in banks in the Cayman Islands, and lives quietly in the apartment in Mountain View, Calif. But in September 1981, he seeks out an American attorney and arranges to meet him in a piano bar called The Fling. Identifying himself only as "Jay," the engineer starts telling his story over Bloody Marys and proposes a deal: if the attorney, William Dougherty, can win a promise of immunity from the U.S. Government, the engineer will turn double agent and pass information on Polish-KGB espionage to the American...
...scenes in the hands of Sellars can become striking: the discovery of Thaisa's coffin by villagers plays hauntingly, though many other poignant scenes fall flat. Background music takes the place of scenery, underscoring places, themes and problems. By the end this music actually plays onstage, with a visible piano offering a melodic counterpoint to the finale...
...senses, and will hold the interest of the user, no matter how sophisticated he becomes. Jeanie Chandler, a professional flutist and music teacher from Marin County in Northern California, who was hired by Electronic Arts as a consultant on the project, says she is using MCS to play her piano accompaniments while she rehearses for an upcoming flute recital...
Truman played the piano. Ford skied. Johnson rode horses. But Jimmy Carter, 59, had a more practical way of taking his mind off the pressures of the Oval Office: woodworking. Carter's down-home handicraft was on display last week at the highbrow address of Sotheby Parke Bernet in Manhattan. The occasion was an auction to raise funds for the Carter Presidential Library and the Carter Center of Emory University in Atlanta. The auction, which netted $320,000, featured two pairs of ladderback hickory chairs handcrafted by Carter last summer. Anonymous buyers purchased one pair...
...vocation, he says, is the one he has aspired to ever since adolescence, when he sat transfixed by a BBC radio broadcast of Debussy's L 'Après-Midi d'un Fanne: composing. With little outside encouragement, young Burgess taught himself music, beginning with the piano keyboard. "Find middle C," he maintains, "and you have found everything." At 20 he had written his first symphony. By the time of his erroneous death sentence he had, while supporting himself as a teacher, produced a catalogue of 65 mostly unplayed works...