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...Baroque music. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 fared somewhat better than the Handel D Minor Concerto Grosso. In the Bach the exotic coloring of the woodwind passages, marvelously executed by the section, overshadowed such outstanding lacks as the weakness of the bass line (in which, besides, the usual keyboard continue was lacking) and the technically inept handling of the violin obbligato by a mercifully unnamed soloist...
...playing the piano by the time he was four; he started searching almost as soon as his fingers touched the keys. Instead of practicing the method of famed Piano Pedagogue Tobias Matthay, used by his mother for her stream of pupils, little David spent every minute that the keyboard was free picking out pieces of his own. He tried harder to please his father (who gave him four cows when he was eight and called Dave his "partner"); later he learned to rope, brand and vaccinate cattle. Eyeing his older brothers practicing their violin and piano, Dave protested against...
...world's zaniest musician, pun-loving, Danish-born Pianist Victor Borge, showed no signs of flagging as he prepared to play his way this week into the second year's run of his one-man Broadway hit show, Comedy in Music. Borge's witty (and programless) keyboard romp has pleasantly parted 230,400 customers from some $775,000 of their money, has outdistanced all long-run records for one-performer Broadway offerings...
...staging miscalculation in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 placed the harpsichord, with its top open, too far in front of the other soloists. Consequently, Dorothy Bales' violin was rarely audible and Howard Brown's flute tone almost completely lost. Joel Spiegel man played the extremely difficult keyboard part with impeccable technique and phrasing, but the total effect was unfortunately like a harpsichord concerto with occasional phrases for violin and flute...
...room, got on the phone, called Mr. Ansley in Trenton, and told him that he wanted a technician immediately. After some argument, Ansley agreed and a technician grabbed a plane, installed the piano, and flew back again. With the piano installed, Schine sat down, ran his fingers along the keyboard and said "Well, I guess...