Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sturdily began Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Her tone was clear and singing, her energy heroic as she swept into the Presto Agitato. To Mozart's A Major Sonata she brought little grace. But for most of the afternoon young Ruth was in might-&-main mood, sweeping the keyboard with glittering arpeggios, pounding out tremendous chords. Knowing that she usually likes to keep on playing, hundreds of listeners rushed forward at the end of the program to watch the stubby flying fingers. But after two encores a lackey walked on stage, sternly closed the piano...
...musicians. They played Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42), Schumann's D Minor, Beethoven's Kreutzer. Hephzibah, a husky tow-head like Yehudi, wore a long peach-colored dress that did not advertise her youth. She walked straight to the piano, bent over the keyboard, never raised her eyes to the audience...
...Carruthers jumped to announce that the staff would now try something new in attacking this old problem. Two porters wheeled in a piano. Composer Fred Fisher ("Dardanella," "Chicago," "Chasing Rainbows," "Peg o' My Heart," "There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway"), took his place at the keyboard. Lyricist Stella Unger vocalized the latest Fisher-Unger work, especially commissioned by the Herald Tribune. Soon that paper's linotypers, compositors and rewrite men on the outside were astounded to hear issuing from the conference room the massed voices of the advertising staff loudly and almost gayly singing the following...
...person, no utilitarian thing. It is an attempt to provoke emotion by the dramatic movements of abstract objects, accompanied by the music of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. In time to the music, a galaxy of rings swim into view, a pyramid intrudes, something resembling a piano keyboard rolls over & over, 50 balls pass deliberately across the screen. This unhuman cinema is, according to its author, the first entirely abstract film ever made and shown...
...fanciest title belongs to the simplest canvas: Skull and Its Lyrical Appendage Leaning on a Night Table Which Has the Temperature of a Cardinal Bird's Nest. An elongated grand piano is flying off into the air. The keyboard runs earthward into a heart-shaped skull which is indeed leaning on a night table. Sharp eyes can find the cardinal bird, but there is no nest...