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...speaks, a song played on a piano down the hall cuts the silence...
Hentoff: Right now I’m writing about and listening to all the recordings of Dave McKenna, the most exciting two-handed piano player in the world...
Hentoff: He covers the whole range of the piano. He never stops swinging...
Mapfumo’s music shares numerous elements with the best of modern trance music. Both are based around driving, endless beats although in Mapfumo’s case, the rhythms are in the distinctive compound measure of the thumb-piano. Both use subtle variations with no single instrument leading the melody, creating hugely long songs (Mapfumo’s penultimate song lasted at least 20 minutes). Most importantly, both create an irresistible urge to dance...
Kristin E. Kitchen ’03 is a history of art and architecture concentrator in Winthrop House. She has covered numerous funny-named places and things for FM, including Naked Dry Cleaners, Death Wish Piano Movers, the Friendly Eating Place and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich...