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While most of the 90 music applications received each semester are for piano or voice lessons, James D. Yannatos, senior lecturer on music, says that he has approved proposals for lessons on the fiddle, recorder and even the bagpipes. "I have mixed feelings on the Independent Studies," Yannatos says, adding, "some students are vitally interested in pursuing musical interests" while others abuse the program's lax requirements...
...Flynn '85 says he transferred to Harvard from Oberlin Conservatory to major in Applied Mathematics. Since his arrival in Cambridge this fall, Flynn adds that he has returned to his first love--the piano...
DIED. Earl Kenneth ("Fatha") Nines, 77, jazz pianist for 50 years and a seminal figure in American popular music, who in the 1920s severed the piano from its ragtime connections and pioneered a distinctive new sound; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif. As leader of his own big band for two decades, he nurtured such future jazz stars as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan...
...Scaduto--"Skiddoo" to the office--all gestures, all heel clicks on the corridor tiles, shooting his pink cuffs, tugging at his earlobe, pinching his face at his reflection in the elevator mirror, tap-dancing as he talked and as his bubble gum snapped... He had teeth like piano keys, and spit flew out of his mouth when he talked...
...cast's energy and musical strength. The Vocal Minority (Catherine Josman, Susan Minter, Heather Moore, Jennifer Bryant), the choral backup, swells the musical numbers and fills in the gaps with an unflagging stream of beautiful singing. Equally indefatigable was the professional performance of Laurence Sobel on the piano, with Rich Dikeman on an electric keyboard that provided ice-skating-rink music to humorous effect. Led by Morland, the cast rejuvenates for the last song, "Company," and launches a high-energy, Broadway-type finale to a 100-percent fun show...