Word: sonata
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Moore became famous in 1961 when he teamed with three other Oxbridge grads-Cook, Miller and Alan Bennett-in the satirical review Beyond the Fringe. Moore's most brilliant contributions were at the keyboard, in a lampoon of Myra Hess playing the "Moonlight"Sonata and in a hilarious, dizzy bit about a pianist who is unable to conclude a coda to a florid piece. The show played for four years to packed houses, first in London, then in New York. When it ended, Moore and Cook went on to do a television series and five movies, including Bedazzled, their...
Virtually waist deep in a field of 1,100 child violinists, cellists and pianists who were all taught by his learning-through-imitation method, Shinichi Suzuki waved his bow. Thousands of fingers tensed, and the second annual Chicagoland Suzuki Music Festival began on a note by Veracini (his Sonata in E Minor). Though hundreds of thousands of students have been taught by the Suzuki method since he introduced it more than three decades ago (including Rosalynn and Amy Carter, who took joint lessons in the White House), the 83-year-old master modestly professes to not playing as well...
...19th century liberal lives in a beautifully preserved row house in a cobblestone mews just off Washington Square. Geraniums blossom in the window boxes. Two gray-and-black cats frolic around the harpsichord. Near by stands the cello, on which Sennett has been practicing Beethoven's A-Major Sonata...
...from the San Francisco Examiner, where he was music critic for 3½ years and won a 1980 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music criticism. A 1971 graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., where he studied composition and musicology, Walsh has written a piano sonata and a string quartet. Says he: "Only someone who has gone through the agony of putting notes on paper to form a coherent musical structure can know what a tremendous achievement a good piece of music is." He is also an accomplished pianist. In the mid-1970s he gave...
Though he didn't get the top spot Drury seemed satisfied with his performance, which included Ives' "Concord Sonata" and Lew Karchin's "Fantasy...