Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quintet--completed by Ted Nash on tenor saxophone, Marv Stamm on trumpet and flugelhorn, Harvie Swartz on string bass and Derek Smith on piano--began its set with a swinging run-through of "Blowin' the Blues Away." In his first solo, Nash seemed to refer to "Satin Doll," a song made famous by Ellington...
Elkies, who now speaks perfect English with a slight accent, stayed at Stuyvesant for three years and simultaneously enrolled in the Julliard School's pre-college program for musicians. He started playing piano when he was three years old, and began "filling sheets of music with notes" before he was four...
Formal lessons in piano and composition began at age six. Elkies says he wrote about 300 pieces, all of which his mother has kept in a notebook, when he was very young. He jokes about most of the pieces, "It's just as well that they're stuck in that notebook...
...enthusiastic, excitable man, Del Monaco is a hands-on operative with his casts. At a piano rehearsal for Boccanegra, a chorister who stepped in front of the hero received a genial tongue lashing. The hapless soprano assigned to cover for Kiri Te Kanawa should she get sick had a bad day, going left when she should have gone right, up the stairs when she belonged on the ground, picking a prop flower off cue. At the beginning of the glorious duet in which the heroine learns that Boccanegra is her father, she began playfully fingering his shirt. For the umpteenth...
...self to a collective, but the statements coming out of these supposedly free-thinking, liberated-from-their-molds individuals smack of brainlessness. Claims that peer pressure and parental pressure to go pre-med have influenced some students' decisions make them seem easily manipulable and thought-controlled. Horror stories about piano lessons and SAT prep courses come right out of an Amy Tan novel about her mother...