Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...host and arbiter; one assumes that Justice Scalia was unavailable.) No matter; the bathing suits stayed, and the pageant remains a context for the exhibition of perfection--that is, if one's view of perfection includes a woman who, upon one's return home, is pounding the piano and belting out an aria from Carmen at the top of her wonderful lungs...
Among the upcoming events in the Gardner Museum's Sunday Concert Series are the Complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven, Part 1, featuring Seymour Lipkin, on Oct.20, a recital of works by Mozart, Bach, Couperin, and Haydn for harpsihord and flute on Oct. 27, and the Borromeo String Quartet performing Dvor ak and Mozart on Nov.3. All concerts begin at 1:30 pm and the $9 fee for college students includes museum admission. For more information about upcoming concerts and ticket information, call...
...music boom, Mr. Wispelwey emerged as one of Europe's first general specialists, performing on both modern and historical instruments. Purists delight in the integrity of hearing a Scarlatti sonata on harpsichord or a Telemann fantasy with an oboe d'amore, as opposed to the anachronistic performance on modern piano and clarinet. Fans extoll the virtues of hearing the compositions of such Baroque uber-studs as they would have been heard once upon a time. For this, the unaccustomed ear might have been a little challenged upon hearing the more delicate and subdued tonal color of Wispelwey's early eighteenth...
...dissonant sound, like the sound created by an untuned piano, is generally unpleasant. A consonant sound is more pleasing to hear...
...Turner's most vivid memories was performing a piano solo before a live audience of hundreds and a television viewership of 40 million...