Search Details

Word: pianos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...stretches on for over six minutes, prolonging the anguish set forth by Bono's mournful yet strong vocals and Edge's subtle guitar playing. The song crescendos to a wailing, yearning climax and then fades away gradually. There is silence for a few minutes, and then the brittle piano chords of "October" start. Sparse and lonely, like a barren tree in winter, "October" is U2 at its finest, displaying some of the strongest emotions on the album with the simplest, minimalist music...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: U2 THE GOLDEN YEARS... | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...rewards. Tickets for Billy Joel's concert at the Fleet Center on December 3rd go on sale at 10 a.m. Though they'll cost a pretty penny, who wouldn't put their last dollar down to hear a live rendition of "We Didn't Start the Fire" from the Piano Man himself? Call 931-2000 for ticket information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LISTINGS | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...Benjamin R. Sears and Bradford L. Conner are administrators at the Harvard Law School, but by night they are members of a successful piano and vocals duo who perform 1920s-style music in the Boston area...

Author: By Molly J. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HLS Administrators Rhapsodize Gershwin | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

Singers performed music from many different genres, including rap, hip-hop, soul and R&B, while musicians played solos on piano, guitar and saxophone...

Author: By Roberto Bailey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BSA Rocks Lowell Hall in 'Apollo' Event | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...horses canters through the air. Angels, hunchbacks, giant toucans materialize as cameo apparitions. Anything may navigate the pool: a bathtub, a giant inverted umbrella, a wayward iceberg, a shark fin that turns out to be the top of a crescent moon. At the end the hunchback plays a grand piano as the princess reclines on it--art, love and beauty in one heartbreaking image--and then, slowly, it dissolves into the water. Here and throughout, O achieves a goal of the highest art: to elevate its audience to a state of awe. Of ohhhh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas--Over The Top: A Show That Soars--and Swims | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | Next