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...time, he finds work playing piano in a cafe. He barely escapes transport to a death camp. He becomes a slave laborer, then a fugitive, finally living in the ruins of a destroyed city. Always he maintains his silence. Never does he commit a heroic or rebellious act. His only obligation is to go on living, which is mostly a matter of chance, supplemented by his own cunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holiday Movie Preview: The Pianist | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...voice sounds without smoking." If Kirchschlager's habits are unconventional, so is the way she happened into her career. Though she is from Salzburg, she grew up dreaming of becoming a journalist or a broadcaster, not of singing arias by Mozart, the city's most famous son. She studied piano and percussion and only switched to singing when she scraped into the Vienna Music Academy by a narrow vote of the entrance panel. "I was the last one they admitted," she says, with a mix of relish and wonderment at how things have turned out. She made her debut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Different Kind Of Diva | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

Misono has been officially endorsed by Ethan L. Gray ’05, president-elect of HRO. Other musical groups on campus, including the Harvard Piano Society, Harvard Organ Society and Harvard Pops Orchestra, have forwarded information about him to their members...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills and Yingzhen Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: No Wild Promises From Studious Outsiders | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...piece created especially for the show used chopped-up footage of piano strings being plucked in sync with the audio, while another composition featured a buzzing acupuncture point detector that was pressed against various points of Schmidt’s body and enlarged for the audience with a live video feed. Captivating and thoroughly enjoyable, the duo’s vivid imagery and even more vivid music bridged performance and process, recreating the act of composition onstage and refashioning the link between sound and equipment that often gets lost amidst the technology...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Strange Sound of Music | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

Darst: [Thinks for a long time.] I’m willing to play the piano with my shirt...

Author: By William L. Adams, Irin Carmon, Mollie H. Chen, Peter L. Hopkins, and Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Throwing The Knuckleball | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

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