Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pianist Bobby Short. That did not mean that the feisty composer had been defused. When one admirer became too mushy, the balding Thomson protested: "Get this man out of my hair...
...some of the burden of enlivening slow patches of the script off the actors' hands, but chose not to, using dull blocking and an entirely static--though lavish--set. The only evidence of a director's hand in the production at all, in fact, is the presence of a pianist (Jeffrey Halpern) on stage before each act, playing show tunes and Gershwin with flair but without much point...
...High and the Mighty, The Old Man and the Sea and High Noon, and another for High Noon's memorable theme song, Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'; after fracturing his pelvis in a fall; in London. Intent on pursuing a career as a concert pianist, Tiomkin left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, made his Paris concert debut in 1924 and two years later performed for the first time in the U.S. Caught in the rush of talent to Hollywood in the early '30s, he went on to write more than 160 film scores, including those...
...Through The Ages Jehovah" is an experiment in repetition; Jenkins' ensemble plays a familiar, Gershwin-like melody many times with improvised embellishments and slight changes in inflection. Pianist Anthony Davis and percussionist Andrew Cyrille prove a precise, if a bit complacent, rhythm section, neither one stepping out to make a memorable statement...
...narrators of The Accompanist and The Fig Tree must deal with the doubts of the husbands they have cuckolded. In the first story, a pianist leaves a package of apple tarts at her lover's apartment. She arrives home dessertless for a dinner party to which her lover is invited. The husband clowns around, sings bawdy songs and regrets the missing tarts which, he is told, were left at a rehearsal studio. How much does he know? How much does he want to know? There are no answers, only a delicate tension created by Pritchett's great talent...