Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scaduto--"Skiddoo" to the office--all gestures, all heel clicks on the corridor tiles, shooting his pink cuffs, tugging at his earlobe, pinching his face at his reflection in the elevator mirror, tap-dancing as he talked and as his bubble gum snapped... He had teeth like piano keys, and spit flew out of his mouth when he talked...
...cast's energy and musical strength. The Vocal Minority (Catherine Josman, Susan Minter, Heather Moore, Jennifer Bryant), the choral backup, swells the musical numbers and fills in the gaps with an unflagging stream of beautiful singing. Equally indefatigable was the professional performance of Laurence Sobel on the piano, with Rich Dikeman on an electric keyboard that provided ice-skating-rink music to humorous effect. Led by Morland, the cast rejuvenates for the last song, "Company," and launches a high-energy, Broadway-type finale to a 100-percent fun show...
...country roots in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist minister of Norwegian background who spoke with both a strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called, had his own chores, like gathering corncobs to burn in the kitchen stove instead of coal. He was an enthusiastic singer who competed in school contests; at Sunday church services the Mondales led the congregation in hymns. In 1938, when Fritz was ten, his father...
...astounding achievement of his music is movingly set against the pecuniary and social tragedies of his brief life. The story is further spiced with a succession of sometimes amusing, and always appropriate, anecdotes. (We are told, for example, about the occasion in a Swedish maternity clinic when his Piano Concerto K 467 was successfully used to ease childbirth...
Chung won the opportunity to perform the solo recital by taking the Highest Placing Artist of the Americas Award in the 1981 Bach International Piano Competition...