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...bound to be something of a letdown to the fanbase they won with their previous disc of campy, cabaret-inspired pop. It starts off right with a dance track ironically titled “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’.” Featuring a piano riff co-written and performed by Elton John, the piece is as masterfully derivative and flamboyant as anything on the Sisters’ previous album, sounding like vintage ABBA, Billy Joel, and Bee-Gees all at once. It’s also reassuring to know the Sisters haven?...
...Conducting is not meant to be a full-time profession," Barenboim lamented during a question and answer session. "Composers—Wagner, Brahms, all of them—played the piano and conducted...
Myron Simons ’40, who lived downstairs from Bernstein in Eliot House describes an incident in which a professor "sent over his Steinway to replace Lenny’s $20 beat up piano...
...already—not, I wouldn’t say famous. I mean, he definitely wasn’t Leonard Bernstein yet, but he was playing piano concertos or solos," recalls Shapero...
Bernstein was largely indifferent to his classes, managing good grades despite skipping most lectures. He was extremely involved in music on campus, playing piano for the Glee Club (before being fired for being late to rehearsal), putting on concerts, and playing the accompaniment to silent movies in Sanders Theater, according to William Powell Mason Professor of Music Carol Oja, who is also co-director of the festival...