Word: teicher
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...search for new musical sounds is neurotic may be right, but the search continues with the frenzy of a uranium hunt. Westminster, a member of the recording elite, takes a flyer into sonic oddities with Soundproof, a collection of popular tunes played on doctored pianos by Louis Teicher and Arthur Ferrante...
...Pianists Teicher. 31, and Ferrante, 34, have played together so long that friends think they are beginning to look like each other, tend to communicate with each other through keyboard tones rather than spoken words. First as students, then as instructors at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, they experimented with piano sound by placing all kinds of objects among the strings, a method pioneered by Composer John Cage, who called it "prepared piano." In 1948 they succeeded in producing a thudding drum effect (by shoving pieces of rubber between the strings) and used it in their version...