Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should it take an expert to sort out just whose desires are being fulfilled or to recognize the difference between a child who loves her piano lessons and one who is going through the motions. But children can be dangerously adaptive. "Most children really want to make their parents happy and will go to enormous effort to that purpose, even beyond their own best interest," says Feldman. Little Jessica, for instance, may truly have loved to fly, but, says Feldman, her parents "were taking the idea of following a child's lead seriously. But a child is a child...
...myself/ For me there is you/ There ain't nobody else," Houston sings, as the chorus shadows her words with "I want to stop/ And thank you Jesus." On the song Houston's tart, high voice is strong and slightly rough, and the accompaniment is a warm wave of piano, organ and bass guitar. It's Motown with angels' wings, and gospel at its finest--taking something secular and making it divine...
Born in Los Angeles, the conductor comes from a theatrical background. His grandparents Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky were stars of the Yiddish theater in New York City, and young Michael grew up in a musical household. Boyhood piano lessons were followed at the University of Southern California by studies with pianist John Crown and composer-conductor Ingolf Dahl, a summer stint as an assistant at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1966, and an appointment as William Steinberg's assistant at the Boston Symphony Orchestra three years later...
Twenty small practice rooms line the hallways of the basement of Harvard's music building. In one, a student monotonously plays piano scales, while the sound of a soprano aria drifts through the walls. In an adjoining classroom, a professor discusses music theory with his students. A saxophone wails at the end of the hall...
...orchestra's ability was most in evidence in "Petrushka," a complex work which incorporates Russian folk tunes and avant-garde rhythmic experimentation. Just the number of instruments involved was impressive: everything from piano, harp and celeste to xylophone, snare drum and triangle found a place on the crowded stage. It makes one wonder what HRO would do if the admissions committee ever forgot to admit a harpist...