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...sightings" of Tower misbehaving in public. The White House asked Nunn to delay a committee vote while some of the accusations were being checked out by the FBI. Referring to the leaks to the press, Tower privately protested, "They've practically got me dancing naked on top of a piano...
...offered a solid beat, a big sound and all sorts of groovy techno- twists at a manageable price. Today keyboards are about a $600 million-a- year business. Some 15 million have been sold in the U.S. alone, where unit sales of electronic keyboards have outpaced the traditional acoustic-piano market for at least five years. Says Don Griffin, owner of West L.A. Music in Southern California: "They're the word processors of music...
...while, then put them in a closet," Flores frets. "With 15 minutes of practice daily, you can learn to play any instrument. You cannot get away from education." Parents who want the family prodigy to put in more than 15 minutes on the upright are concerned that serious piano lessons may be undermined by the keyboard craze...
...never met anyone who's had his technique ruined by a keyboard with full-sized keys," reassures L.A. music instructor Alpha Walker, who has been teaching piano for nearly 30 years. "Kids who didn't take lessons because they didn't have pianos are signing up to work on the keyboard." The instrument has amassed all the pop impact of the electric guitar. "Everyone who presses a key can get a sound," says the jazz-based singer-songwriter Patrice Rushen. "But combining those sounds, to really use the keyboard as an instrument, that's when the talent comes...
Tonight the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) presents Bernstein's Overture to Candide, Prokofieff's Piano Concerto No. 3, and Prokofieff's Symphony No. 5 in the organization's second concert of the year. Perfoming the Piano Concerto will be Hugh Hinton '90, winner of the HRO 1988 Concerto Competition. Tickets for tonight's performance are $3, $5 and $7 at Holyoke Center and $4, $6 and $8 at the door...