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From a huge caldron on the kitchen stove in a London flat wafts the comforting aroma of classic chicken soup, enough to feed a hungry orchestra. From a small upright piano in the living room wafts a bittersweet trickle of melody, enough to feed a hungry spirit. Michael Tilson Thomas, the 45-year-old principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, is cooking on both burners...
...plans also call for modifying Sanders Theater to add a dressing room, rehearsal space, a storage room for instruments and a piano lift...
...black and British, saxman Courtney Pine is his country's most popular jazz performer. His third album, a mix of standards and originals, shows off a controlled lyricism and two different voices: wailing and reedy on soprano, muzzy and funky on tenor. But Pine's stylish man at the piano, Ellis Marsalis, almost steals the album...
...JOHN TEACHES NEW ORLEANS PIANO (Homespun Video). "I think," says Dr. John in his best gone-fishing voice, "we're gonna start off with a little Frankie and Johnny, a la Professor Longhair." No matter if you don't know about the good professor (the past master of R. and B. keyboard, Crescent City style) or aren't sure about the good doctor either (one of Longhair's foremost disciples, the winner of a 1990 Grammy Award for a duo jazz vocal and a kind of living archive of musical history). Just sit back and watch Dr. John work...
Landsbergis invites comparison with playwright Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia. Like Havel, Landsbergis has determined that the needs of a nation must supersede his love of his art. Still, he misses his beloved music. His aides speak of moving a piano into his office in the Supreme Council. Says Tadjuga Mackeviciene, one of his assistants: "He is able to raise people's spirits with his music." The question is whether he will be able to persuade Gorbachev to hum along...