Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went from courtyard to courtyard of all the Houses we wanted to be in and sang a song to the tune of 'Piano Man,'" Modigliani said...
...questions and lucid in his answers, being interviewed is not one of his favorite things in the world. He endures this session by guardedly clutching two sofa pillows in front of himself and takes the first opportunity to cut the interview short, leap up and head to his piano, where he is plainly most comfortable and where he says he spends most of his days. He then offers up a lovely Rhapsody in Blue...
...Orchids," the jaunty marching-band parade style on "Frivolous Tonight" and the gorgeously acoustic "Knights in White Karma" all bring to mind various eras of the Fab Four's musical evolution. However, in other areas XTC's songs sound entirely fresh and vibrant. "Your Dictionary" has an ominous underlying piano part that gives way to sleigh bells and picture-perfect harmonies. The pastoral-like "Greenman" wouldn't be out of place at a jovial medieval formal dance, and "Fruit Nut" has an organ background that sounds like the theme music from a TV show on Nickelodeon. Apple Venus Vol.1...
...life "suspicious character," Ignatius J. Reilly, memorialized in bronze, loiters in perpetuity outside the former D.H. Holmes department store, now the Chateau Sonesta Hotel. The nearby Palace Cafe, once Werlein's for Music, where Reilly bought his lute string, is a good place to lunch. The cafe's player piano will entertain small fry, and the food will please the grownups. True Toole aficionados will buy a hot dog on the street in homage to Reilly's brief, catastrophic career as a vendor of frankfurters made of "rubber, cereal, tripe. Who knows...
...Burton, who is also executive vice president of Boston's Berklee College of Music, began his performance with a 10-minute improvisation to a Chick Corea composition honoring the be-bop style of 1950s pianist Bud Powell. Burton was accompanied by a Yamaha piano recording of Makuto Ozone, a Berklee graduate and frequent collaborator of Burton's now living in Japan...