Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half-dozen ablest conductors, England's goateed, salt-&-peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, struck up with the CBS Symphony. His tangiest item was a seldom-played piano concerto, the only one written by England's late, blind Frederick Delius, who once lived in Florida. At the keyboard in the concerto was a third Briton: pretty, blonde Betty Humby, 33, who has supported herself by expert piano-playing since she was a child...
...first program, Salon Swing, Miss Crane put an obscure pianist, a vocal quintet, a small hot band-Negroes all. The pianist, light-fingered Kentuckian Herman Chittison, won fame in Europe during the past decade, leading bands and swinging Chopin and Schubert at the. keyboard. It took Louise Crane seven months to track him down in Manhattan. The five vocalists chose an appalling name for their collective debut: the Sophistichords. But they deftly turned English and European songs inside out, kidded the pants off the clown's teary air from Pagliacci. The band of the evening, John Kirby...
...when it comes to improvisation--which after all is one of the prime requisites of good jazz. Both of these boys, I'm glad to say, will go out of their way to avoid the imitative, elaborately tasteless style which has bogged down too many of our more promising keyboard artists. This goes for Rupe especially. He can't read a note of music, and he's such a lazy bum that I doubt if he'll ever bother to learn. However, what counts is the fact that he's endowed with an innate sense of chord structure that permits...
...famous blind organist at the Temple during the same century. Byrd's Pavan for the Earl of Salisbury was commonly played on the virginals, and Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary and Trumpet Airs on the harpsichord. But since at that time the general term "clavier" applied indiscriminately to all keyboard instruments, a clavier piece might be played either on the virginals, harpsichord, clavichord, or organ, Organs of that day, having no pedal board, did not require music written specially in three staves, and so could play regular two-staff clavier music. And to adopt a clavier composition for the modern organ...
...talent that during the run of Girl Crazy he often appeared in the orchestra pit for the sole purpose of playing the piano while she delivered I Got Rhythm. Ethel kept her long-lashed eyes on the house, but she could tell when the composer was at the keyboard by his unusual inventions in the treble...