Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signals from the sound track of the Tech Force cartoon program. Those beeps -- signifying such commands as forward, reverse, right and left -- will send the robots wheeling across the living-room floor. At the same time, children can control other robots by sending out audio commands from a small keyboard. That way youngsters can stage battles between the robots they control and the ones commanded by the TV program...
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER: COLLECTED PIANO WORKS (New World). Denver Oldham plays robust, romantic keyboard music by a neglected American master...
This piece is, I swear it now, the last on the subject and as I tap it out on the keyboard, please know that I relate the following story not to perpetuate my own absurd tale but rather to wrap up the proceedings for the curious...
...Burgess turns his heroine's "Uneducated English" into a marvelously supple and comic tool of exposition. When she recalls the job that finally did her father in, a pianoplaying marathon in Blackpool, Ellen tries to give some sense of Billy's repertoire during his last 15 days at the keyboard; several pages of song titles follow, including Beethoven's Mignonette in G, the Pilgrim's Chorus from Tan Houser and Pomp and Circumference March. The sharpie who egged Billy on to this fatal enterprise was named Jeremiah Feldfloh, which Ellen has trouble getting right; she tries Flyblow, Fieldflow, Freeflow, Feelflo...
Talking Heads, formed in 1975, was an art school band: Byrne, Drummer Chris Frantz and his wife, Bass Player Tina Weymouth, all attended the Rhode Island School of Design, and Keyboard Player Jerry Harrison came from Harvard with a B.A. and a semester of graduate school in design behind him. They were used to the behavioral extravagances and shock-therapy experimentation of the young avant-garde art world, and brought that same go-for-it attitude to their music. Playing at Manhattan's CBGB, the proto-punk club on the Bowery, the Heads dressed in strictly Ivy spiff, like floorwalkers...