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...refinished barn used as a guesthouse and screening room. They have cats, dogs and an expensively renovated stable half an hour away that Paul swears he will have memorialized in an oil painting showing a huge hole into which beautiful people are throwing money. They have a piano that Paul, a lover of Bach (he urges his sports-car friends to buy Glenn Gould's new digital recording of the Goldberg Variations), has learned to play fairly well...
...much the same uplift have people always foraged for the small, personal glimmers in the lives of the powerful. Several U.S. Presidents endeared themselves to the public through their pastimes: Ike's golf, Kennedy's touch football, Truman's piano playing. Hoover took to fishing and throwing a medicine ball, though not at the same time. Nixon had no hobbies to speak of, unless one counts the knotting of one's ties. The most interesting pastimes were those of Calvin Coolidge, who reportedly took pleasure in the mechanical horse and pitching hay. The former probably delimited...
...wartime destruction: rubble, crumbled walls, caved-in roofs. Eventually he created his own subjects, a rare chance for an artist. According to his lackey, the featherbrained Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler also adored whistling. His best numbers were Harvard fight songs, which Putzi, a Harvard alumnus, would thump on the piano whenever the Fiihrer was in a frisky mood. After the war, whenever Putzi was asked what Hitler was like, he never failed to marvel how that man could whistle...
Faculty Chamber Concert Ray De-Voll, tenor, John Heiss, flute. Laurence Lesser, Cello, Victor Rosenbaum, piano Enc Rosenblith, Violin and Patncia Zander, piano; music of Haydn, Heiss Faure and Dvorak, Jordan Hall. 290 Huntington Avenue, Thursday...
...humid embrace of a New Orleans summer night. It grew stronger as I crossed Royal Street and saw the two battered music cases hanging over a wrought-iron gate. Brass letters on them spelled out the words PRESERVATION HALL. I heard a bass drum, a sprinkle of piano notes and the growl of a trumpet driving home a blues chorus...