Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Will Harvey, 16 and an honors student from Foster City, Calif., was singing in his high school choir one day when the idea came to him. His family did not own a piano, and he had taken no music lessons, but he thought of a simple way for people like him to learn music with a computer. Drawing on his considerable talents as a programmer, Harvey sat down with his Apple and an introductory music text and came up with a program that is making even professional musicians stand up and shout "Bravo!" Not only did Harvey master the mechanics...
...makes it so easy to do so much. The key to the software's success is what the industry calls its "user interface." It avoids computerese and makes notation as simple and transparent as possible. To play the notes, the user simply points at a picture of a piano. To return to the top of a piece, he points at a picture of a home. Key signatures can be selected and music automatically transposed with the press of a button. A pair of on-screen scissors will cut out up to nine measures of music, and a little pastepot...
Meanwhile, ride participant R. Brad Dalton '85 played songs the group had composed on their trip on the Kirkland House grand piano. The Radcliffe Pitches joined in the entertainment with several numbers of their...
...into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano in the room is his diversion...
...beauty queen was not aiming at barriers or breakthroughs. She entered the Miss America Pageant because "I needed the money." The title means a $25,000 scholarship, and in addition she will earn more than $100,000 for appearances across the nation this year. Williams plays piano and French horn, won the talent competition with her singing, and wants to make it as a musical actress. The Syracuse University junior only competed in a local swimsuit contest last spring because a campus drama production folded. Since her crowning in Atlantic City, where she edged out the first runner-up, Miss...