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...musicians are simply dissatisfied with what they find here. They arrive to discover insufficient practice facilities and uniformly express frustration with a Music Department which they say discourages performance. Pianists, in particular, face a difficult situation: Few opportunities exist for organized music performance, and even finding a good practice piano can prove time-consuming and fruitless. These musicians--not all of whom are necessarily headed for professional careers--have two options. They either leave--as Hunt did--or they quietly re-adjust their habits, and perhaps even their ambitions, to conform to the conditions of an unashamedly academic environment...
...January of her freshman year rolled around she decided to move off campus. "I couldn't stand the food. I wanted to live with my boyfriend, and most of all I was going crazy not having anywhere to practice. I used to spend hours wandering around searching for a piano...
...this is that it never happens," says senior adviser Will Marquess, and Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, emphatically agrees. But after petitions, letters, and parental intervention, Moses and company gave in and made her a rare exception. Krash moved out of Matthews, turned vegetarian, and bought her own piano...
BEFORE THE FIRST LINE of dialogue is spoken. Bundy's The Hostage assumes a peculiar vaguely confused tone. The curtain rises on the delapidated lodging house: a light-haired woman stands beside a piano, waving to the audience. As she sits at the piano and begins to play. The company comes onstage and dances a jig. Their steps are careful. Scrupulously well-executed: you can see the concentration on their faces, in their wide alert eves, in their lips that move softly as they count the beats. The tinny sound of the piano and the gently pitter-pat of shoes...
...rest today was himself a jazzman. Albert Walters was his name. His melodic cornet was heard around town for more than half a century -and is still to be heard on such records as Albert Walters with the Society Jazz Band and West Indies Blues. Walters taught himself piano as a kid, took up the horn in 1927. He liked to say he was a carpenter by trade but a musician by choice. He appeared now and then with other traditionalists in Preservation Hall, but mostly he worked with Society Jazz. A short, stocky man, widowed several years ago, Walters...