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...began last October. Until that month, President Ronald Reagan had been flying high. After playing upon that summer's drug hysteria the way a Horowitz plays upon a Steinway--only to fail to come through with the money or resources to actually do something about substance abuse--the President reaped the benefits of a popular tax reform bill with which he had little to do and, in fact, the concept of which he long had opposed. Then, during the first week of October, the cargo plane of one Eugene Hasenfus, an American mercenary, was shot down inside Nicaragua trying...
Within the Roman splendors of his apartment, Morricone induces daily doses of therapeutic distress by getting down to work with the dawn. "Tell me," he challenges, "what other composers get up at 5 in the morning?" Morricone does not use his regal Steinway grand for composition, but sits over his score paper at a desk in his workroom. The room, kept locked against the incursions of four children, ages 20 to 30, who still come by and "steal my records," also accommodates a broken 17th century organ, a functioning studio-size recording console, piles of music books and tapes...
Everyone calls Marguerite Hanusa "Marge," and everyone who is anyone in the high plains Montana town of Choteau comes to Marge's adult piano and organ recital every year about this time. She holds it in the parlor of her house, where she has a Story & Clark upright, a Steinway baby grand and a two-tiered Conn with a full footboard. The first townspeople to show up get to sit on folding chairs from the Methodist and Lutheran churches; the tardy in the audience must make do with the staircase and the floor. After the music the party moves into...
...Communist Party member from 1942 on, and his concerts in the West frequently drew pickets as well as enthusiastic audiences. In an attempt to defuse the protests, Gilels once confessed to Western reporters that, yes, he had played for Nikita Khrushchev--but on an American piano, a Steinway...
Your brown paper bag in hand, you can now sashay sumptuously, from Low Budget to High Tea, into the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel on a M. Street N.W. in Georgetown. There, hot buttered scones and perfect tea are served to the accompaniment of a grant Steinway piano. At dusk, they light the candles candle, and bring out the champagne...