Word: pianos
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...Fujisaki made a decision on confiscation of investment portfolios. In any case, O.J. probably hasn't seen the last of the sheriff's moving van. Another order signed Monday requires Simpson to turn over 66 items to the estate of his late wife, including a six-foot Yamaha grand piano and letters from former President Richard Nixon congratulating Simpson on his athletic feats. Meanwhile, egged on by fears that Simpson won't be able to pay the entire judgement against him, the Brown and Goldman families are each fighting to make sure they get their share of the loot. Fujisaki...
...Fujisaki made a decision on confiscation of investment portfolios. In any case, O.J. probably hasn't seen the last of the sheriff's moving van. Another order signed Monday requires Simpson to turn over 66 items to the estate of his late wife, including a six-foot Yamaha grand piano and letters from former President Richard Nixon congratulating Simpson on his athletic feats. Meanwhile, egged on by fears that Simpson won't be able to pay the entire judgement against him, the Brown and Goldman families are each fighting to make sure they get their share of the loot. Fujisaki...
...should thank her lucky stars. Her husband, the mentally skewed Australian pianist David Helfgott, whose story is told in the affecting movie Shine, has sold out his 11-city North American tour; Shine has received seven Oscar nominations; chaotic though it is, Helfgott's recording of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto (the "Rach 3" of the movie) is a hot seller, and Love You to Bits and Pieces, Gillian's fuzzy-warm book about how she rescued this lost soul and lofted him to stardom, has 185,000 copies in print. "It's almost as if we've gone into...
Like his contemporary Chopin, Liszt was immeasurably better at writing for piano than for orchestra. In either of his two piano concertos, every part except the soloist's will seem like mere accompaniment. This was especially true in this performance of Liszt's second concerto, in A, where Yukiko Sekino '99, the winner of HRO's Concerto Competition, dwarfed her colleagues with her huge technique. Though her double notes left something to be desired (and whose don't?), her fearless and flawless octaves, the sine quibus non of Lisztian bravura, eradicated this quibble. A duet passage with principal cellist Steve...
...first melody made people smile, not just because of its unwitting affinity to the orchestral part of Carmen's "Habanera," but also because the piano sounded fantastic. The Steinway trilled and sang under Haefliger's fingers, projecting pianissimo lines that were clear no matter how loudly the orchestra played. But the lowest registers were almost over-responsive: Haefliger's loudest octaves sounded like they belonged in Liszt or Busoni, not Mozart...