Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instead of the lectern, the professor headed for the piano bench. And instead of a speech, his presentation opened with a live, impassioned performance of Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique...
David L. Miller '98, who is in the class, said he was particularly impressed with Levin's ability to stop talking in the middle of a sentence and complete his thought with music as he lectures from his piano bench...
...ever recorded. In an interview with Time, Stipe described the new sound succinctly: "We wanted noise." Added R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills: "When you're in a band long enough, you want to try different things. On past albums we had been exploring acoustic instruments, trying to use the piano and mandolin, and we did it about all we wanted to do it. And you come back to the fact that playing loud electric-guitar music is about as fun as music...
...Piano Man is coming, and he may even bring his piano...
...part of American musical culture is untouched by Joplin's influence. Stride piano, boogie-woogie, Dixieland, Big Band swing, blues, soul and rock 'n' roll -- to some degree, all these forms were adumbrated in Joplin's works. But Joplin's achievement transcends pop music; indeed, the soft-spoken, neatly dressed whorehouse pianist was a master melodist who would rightly be called an American Schubert...