Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never had students. This is a great loss." It is also a sad fact that few celebrated performers have much interest in teaching-and fewer still have any talent for it (Rachmaninoff, for example, was a dour, retiring man, hardly cut out to be the Mr. Chips of the keyboard). Fortunately for a few lucky cellists, however, Piatigorsky, 61, has both the interest and the talent. By virtue of his superior musicianship, his good humor and infectious love for his art, he is one of the greatest cello teachers ever...
...though his multimillion-dollar publishing company still demands most of his worktime, and his family-three children and six grandchildren-most of his playtime, Berlin refuses to turn in his keyboard, never looks back for long. "The past is fine," he is fond of saying, "but you can't live there...
...last week, he plays again. His Scriabin is more difficult and more triumphant, his Chopin alternately stormy and suave; it is more introspective than Rubinstein's, probes for a cerebral content that surprises and electrifies. His eyes are glued to the keyboard, his fingers carefully searching out each note as if they are switches that illuminate sound. But the greatest success is not in the relationship of Horowitz to his audience or Horowitz to his critics, but of Horowitz to Horowitz. He signs a five-year contract with Columbia Records. On May 8 he will play again before...
...console is a diminutive, innocent-looking machine with a typewriter keyboard. One such console is hooked up to a central computer in Santa Barbara, and has a display panel which can project curves and equations onto a screen--an animated blackboard. It can be used to solve some fairly sophisticated problems in applied mathematics and physics...
When it comes to exercising the fingers, Rubinstein contends that too much practice destroys the spontaneity of a performance. Besides, he says, "I want to live?live passionately. So I don't believe in all this nonsense of tying oneself to the keyboard all day." While most musicians practice for five of six hours every day, he will go for days without looking at a piano. Some younger pianists, he says, in their note-niggling pursuit of perfection, end up "taking a performance out of their pocket instead of out of their heart." This lack of involvement, he feels, extends...