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...Puccio foe: "There is no limit to which he wouldn't go to get an advantage." A former courtroom opponent who on the record calls Puccio "a very aggressive, very able lawyer," adds confidentially, "I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw a grand piano." Puccio, the former chief prosecutor of Abscam, knows he rubs many in the legal Establishment the wrong way. "I'm very noninstitutional," he acknowledges. "I'm uncontrollable...
Pedro had the rough, callused hands of a seasoned laborer, Stammer remembered, but he was also a person of some refinement. He enjoyed having her play the piano for him, and he liked reading books on history and philosophy, metaphysics and chemistry. Among his favorites was The Decline of the West, written by Oswald Spengler. For the most part, Stammer reported, her guest remained quiet. "Sometimes," she recalled, "he went out of the house for six, seven hours at a time. I think he just went walking." The Stammers finally separated themselves from their increasingly unwanted guest in 1974. Moving...
...Crumb); Zubin Mehta, conductor (Schuman), with Philip Myers, horn; New World Records.) Blessed with one of the most remarkable ears for sonority of any modern composer, Crumb has long had a fascination with the otherworldly. In such works as Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, the two piano suites of Makrokosmos and the string quartet Black Angels, he combines a distinctive, flamboyant sense of instrumental color with a darkling imagination that results in some chillingly effective music. A Haunted Landscape employs an amplified piano and an exotic battery of more than 45 different percussion instruments to paint a vibrant picture...
Vosgerchian makes an effort to get to know all her students personally, even in her large lectures. She says she knew every one of the 185 students in her fall semester 19th century piano music course. But sometimes getting close to students can produce out-of-classroom benefits...
...flute line from the second scene into Gandhi's eloquent apostrophe to freedom at the end, Glass created one of the most powerful moments in modern opera. The melody is simplicity itself -- a scale consisting of the tones from E to E on the white notes of a piano, repeated 36 times -- but the purity of its calm resolve has the effect of an emotional tidal wave...