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CONDI RICE gives private piano recital for THE QUEEN...
...Seated on a leather piano bench, Harrell opened the adagio-moderato movement of Sir Edward Elgar’s “Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85” with a declamatory broken chord. Harrell—who made his BSO debut in November 1978—favored a smoother, lighter touch to the opening theme, as opposed to the heavily sustained passion of English cellist Jacqueline Du Pré’s definitive 1965 recording of the concerto with the London Symphony...
...room at the Lily Pad on Cambridge Street is small and stylishly decorated, with a seating capacity of less than thirty. A large grand piano gleams under muted stage lights in the back among a comfortable clutter of drums, amplifiers, and microphones. The performer who precedes Malcolm G. Campbell ’10 at “Pianofest”—a night showcasing the best area players on the instrument—is classically trained and ends her set with a darkly-beautiful, highly-technical piece. Like all the musicians here—Campbell included?...
...Medical School, and Ellen Winner, a professor of psychology at Boston College and a senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, tested a group of 59 musicians and non-musicians ranging from eight to eleven years old. The tests showed that the children who had played piano and, or a string instrument for a mean of 4.63 years performed better on tasks that tested both skills that are both related and unrelated to playing a musical instrument, according to Schlaug, “The ones that learn to play musical instruments have to learn to recognize...
...Even the album title sets the stakes high, ironically echoing Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.” J. Smith’s day begins dramatically in “Chinese Blues” as jabs of distorted guitar accentuate the vaguely Eastern-sounding piano opening. With his voice sounding the thinnest, the roughest, the hungriest it has since “Good Feeling,” Healy sharply attacks the chorus, really laying into lyrics about betrayal: “It’s the knife in your back / It?...