Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country song about "dee-troit barbeque ribs." From out of the audience, two more tuxedoed guys spin around and race to the stage, doo-wopping and snapping to the tune. Others follow, tripping down the fire escape in the back of the room or popping up from behind the piano. The act has started and won't be over until the Kroks have knocked off a few 1950s tunes, a handful of ballads and scads of Jazz standards. The crowd gradually quiets down, probably somewhere in the middle of the old Scottish air "Loch Lomond...
...Backstage, though, the uniformity falls apart. One sophomore, who contemplated majoring in music, loosens his tie and massages Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique out of the piano in the corner. He is one of the group's obvious musicians. Another, musical director David Liang, whose rapid-fire scats are probably the most impressive talent in the group, thinks through an arrangement for the next show. Sophomore Henry Rich, meanwhile, a special concentrator in aesthetics, secludes himself in the corner and reads T.S. Eliot poems into his dictaphone for later listening during his workout at the gym. Others pull...
Like other Soviet youngsters who showed musical promise at an early age, she had no real childhood. "All I did," she recalls in her fluent but slightly askew English, "was practice like crazy mad." She spent her youth studying cello, composition and piano ("I love piano. I still play but not in concert"), and gave her first public performance at age seven. But her budding career hit the skids when her father, a prizewinning virtuoso bass player, was judged a political risk by the authorities. "He was incredible bassist," she says, "but he was so much exposed to the West...
...diversion from academic pressures, just like sports are a diversion for millions from life's daily grind, just like college is a diversion from reality. That's why I never wanted to write for the news department; the sports department is much more fun. I'm with the Piano Man--I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints...
...words can, in some way, convey angst, love, and yes, even more angst. Unlike her prior albums, which dealt with Amos's traumatic past, To Venus and Back doesn't really have a theme, but Amos insists that it was instead inspired by her Muse. "I look at the piano, I stalk her, she looks at me, takes a yawn, and goes to sleep . . ." Amos says of her fabled friend. "When she does show herself . . . she demands that I become a hunter, a hunter of her frequency." Got that? Yet, even if you don't understand the Muse, never...