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Peppermint & Rolls. As the unmanned Steinway eerily picked its note-perfect way through the concerto in Los Angeles, thousands of other pianolas* were making rumpus rooms, rathskellers and taverns resound all over the U.S. Most of them-foot-pumped jobs with no concert-grand pretensions-were being played for the sheer rinky-tink fun of it by people who own either vintage instruments rescued from dusty oblivion or brand-new 1962 models, bought in a shiny showroom. The player piano is coming back into its own again to the tune of Moon River and The Peppermint Twist. And, once again...
...snoozing. Another camera will be mounted directly above the center of the stage to permit overhead shots reminiscent of old Hollywood musicals. This camera can be aimed by remote control to focus on any group of instruments or on a closeup of Glenn Gould removing his mittens at the Steinway. Eight cameras outside the auditorium can pick up arriving audiences as they ascend the two grand staircases, buzz about the terrace galleries, eye one another in the promenade, or sip champagne in the cafe lounge. Backstage cameras will be ready to televise interviews in the Green Room or to invade...
Good Carpenter. Violas started emerging from the Hutchins' living room about 15 years ago. Mrs. Hutchins, who was teaching science at the Brearley School in Manhattan, started studying the viola and discarded a store-bought model to try to make her own from blueprints. Although a Steinway violinmaker pronounced her first effort the work of "a good carpenter," she went ahead with No. 2, soon began turning out instruments that were good enough to sell. Nowadays, she tries to use the same woods Stradivarius used; she gets spruce and curly maple from the mountains of Czech been seasoning since...
...than anywhere else. For example, he began at a Killing tempo, and it ended up wounding him; the first movement was too fast. While he had never swelled beyond a forte in the first two numbers of the program, here he used his six-foot build to advantage: the Steinway really stomped. Again in the third movement, an "Allegretto," Boyk travelled presto. As a result, he had to stretch rhythms at the crucial transitions. But the music's momentum carried the listener through in one long dash to a brilliant conclusion...
...more than the number of speakers, of course, is what comes out of them. Says Luigi Dallapiccola, the patriarch of the Italian twelve-tone school: "They already have vast technique. What they lack is ideas. Technical equipment is not important. When Beethoven wrote his piano sonatas, he anticipated the Steinway piano." Certainly the public still seems to appreciate the human touch. The biggest personal hit at Venice was U.S. Composer William Smith, a member of the original Dave Brubeck Octet. While his eight-minute electronic Improvisation, replete with amplified clarinet key clicks, breath noises, and echo chamber effects, boomed over...