Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faithfull presents two sides of herself in her two act show Don't Smoke in Bed! Act One is a cabaret in which she performs songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, accompanied by Paul Trueblood on piano. Faithfull initially had to struggle with the Kurt Weill Institute for permission to sing his songs. This obstacle seems ironic--for much publicized bouts with despair and heartache, not to mention drugs, make her a perfectly cast character...
...standard baroque trio sonata, we think. Telemann or perhaps one of the Bach sons. But it's over in a flash. Segue to standard piano Muzak, sounds like something familiar. Unbelievable--it's Bryan Adams' "I Do it for You." (Vomiting ensues...
Hundreds of students jostled each other in the corridors outside Paine Hall just to catch a glimpse of piano-playing maestro Robinson Professor of the Humanities Robert D. Levin '68 of Literature and Arts B-54: "Chamber Music From Mozart to Ravel...
...think it was very good decision to play piano rather than sing." Snow said. "It was difficult to compare [the vocalists], which is one good reason that Marcis played the piano...
...most popular business to pursue is show business. Get ready for dramatic recitations and piano flourishes, tap dancing and clog dancing. To ensure again that TV viewers will be exposed to more opera on this one show than in the rest of the year, five of the 50 promise a "classical vocal." Classical, perhaps; classic, perhaps not. To have a "talent" is not always to be talented. Then again, anticipating the mangling of a high C is one of the evil joys of pageant watching...