Word: steinway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While Batiste's sound is not physically as strong as Byron's, his clean, well-trained lines call attention to themselves nonetheless. In introducing the Thad Jones waltz "A Child Is Born," Batiste played into the guts of the opened grand piano and used the Steinway's vast sounding board as a natural amplifier, thus creating all sorts of lingering overtones. This experimental technique might have been expected more of the younger Byron than of Batiste, the elder statesman, but Batiste showed that he is more than a traditionalist throughout the concert...
...bidding up the prices. From the opening gavel of what amounted to a nine-hour garage sale, buyers in the museum's main hall sought to outbid one another on 630 lots that ranged from ivory figurines and a Flemish tapestry to a rococo revival cabinet and an 1873 Steinway. "I always wanted the thrill of owning a museum piece," said Denver Realtor Midge Wallace after acquiring an 18th century grandfather clock...
...professor, an acclaimed musician who can demonstrate the works instead of just talk about them, spends all of his lectures at his black Steinway grand...
...guard service is really only as good as the supervision it provides," says Michael Anesta, the director of personnel for Steinway & Sons, which stopped using Burns two years ago at its Queens, N.Y., piano-manufacturing plant. Former Burns official Gary Slodowski quit in 1990 after winning the company's manager-of-the-year award. "With the LBO, the company started to deteriorate," he says. "They've got away from the building blocks, such as service and visiting clients every day. Collecting cash became the main thing. With no one to pay attention to the other details, you're going...
...Haydn was the weakest piece on the program. While it began animatedly, the music itself did not follow through. The main problem was one of balance; Pressler's large Steinway grand piano simply took undue precedence over the other instruments. The secondary problem was one of tempo; the pace of the first movement (the development in particular) was a bit slow and pedantic. This was inappropriate for the inherent liveliness and humor of Haydn. As a result, the cadential chords sounded forced and brash...