Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, he has tried. The only one of the cast who has ever made it to Broadway is Bill Carmichael, 28, who played in Peter Pan. The others, including Piano Player Fred Barton, 24, are Broadway gypsies, young aspirants hoping for a break...
Most of Levine's life has been spent counting successes. Born in Cincinnati, a city with a rich musical heritage, young Jimmy Levine could pull himself up to the family Chickering piano and pick out tunes before he was two years old. When little more than an infant, he once astonished his father, a former bandleader, by spotting the rhythm of Mary Had a Little Lamb when it was idly drummed on a tabletop. Piano lessons came at four, recitals at six. In 1953, age ten, he made his debut with the Cincinnati Symphony, performing Mendelssohn's Piano...
...prodigy for the eldest of their three children. When the television show The $64,000 Question called, trying to book Jimmy for an appearance, they declined. When Comedian Sam Levenson wanted to cast him as a musical genius in a TV show, they turned him down. When the legendary piano teacher Rosina Lhévinne of the Juilliard School first heard Jimmy play and said, "I must have this child," they told her to wait until he was older. Says Levine: "My parents handled all the critical decisions of my early life sensationally well...
Jimmy's love for the piano was intense, but he soon discovered an even greater love: opera. Jimmy would listen to recordings, singing the parts and conducting from the score. His mother, who had been a Broadway actress, bought him a miniature stage, where he put on his own productions using toy tables and chairs as props. During the summers, he attended the performances of the Cincinnati Opera, held then on the grounds of the local zoo, clutching his grandmother's long knitting needle as a make-believe baton...
...waking?" Like many contemporary women authors, Le Guin, married with three grown children, is not an amateur who regards her craft as a pastime. Early on, the Fulbright scholar decided on fiction as a career. Says she:"It's like music. Are you just going to play the piano in the basement, or is it for real...