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...sometimes wore fingerless gloves while he played, sang along with the music, and sat on a stool so low that he could touch the keyboard with his nose. Before a performance of the Brahms D minor piano concerto, Conductor Leonard Bernstein turned to the audience and made a short speech, dissociating himself from his soloist's unorthodox view of the piece. At his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 1957, he tangled with the irascible maestro George Szell over his use of the soft pedal in a Beethoven concerto; Szell never performed with him after that, but saluted: "That...
...Little, Brown, $15.95), based largely on a 1974 two-part interview in Rolling Stone, Jonathan Cott elicits from the reclusive Canadian his views on teaching ("Given half an hour of your time and your spirit and a quiet room, I could teach any of you how to play the piano"), composers ("I really don't like Mozart") and pop music ("At her best, Barbra Streisand is probably the greatest singing actress since Maria Callas"). Often technical, and sometimes sycophantic, the book is perhaps best appreciated by Gould aficionados, but it gives an insight into the pianist's eclectic thought processes...
...BRAHMS: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 (Deutsche Grammophon). Krystian Zimerman and Leonard Bernstein give the ferocious concerto a lofty performance...
...Aunt Alicia (Betsy Palmer) will gladly help design the set While Honore keeps busy tutoring Gaston in the rules of the game--for status value, little can rival driving a spurned lady to attempt suicide Mamita enlists Aunt Alicia to perform daily finishing lessons seemingly as de rigeur as piano lessons for the varsity social climbers of New York in the 80's, or anytime for that matter...
...changed, like blankets, were suspiciously unavailable in state-operated stores; shoppers complained that they had been removed from shelves in anticipation of price increases. To hedge against shortages or inflation, many citizens withdrew their savings to purchase such nonperishables as bicycles and textiles. One Peking family bought a piano as an investment, though neither parents nor children could play it. A black market developed in railroad tickets, as speculators in Peking, Shanghai, Canton and other cities snapped up tickets and resold them at higher prices...