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Tuttle was an authority on Elizabethan Keyboard Music, and edited a volume called "The Tuttle Collection or Forty-five Pieces for Key Board Instruments...
...bright young man permits his wife to support him, but has to pay her so much attention in return that he is driven from keyboard to bar. In the end, of course. Actress Taylor sees the error of her ways and builds up the husband she has torn down, just in time for a gigantic Rachmaninoff rag at the finale...
...most valuable devices in space is a little something called an electrowriter. It makes all communication between different planetary inhabitants possible. "Hlan's fingers played upon the keyboard, and a mechanical voice intoned, 'I am Hlan-Glea, Elder of this village. I bid you welcome.'" The electrowriter works with all peoples, including the Glumf, Yligth, Sreep, Ooop, and the Ghaag...
...fondness for the classics. At the Embers, he slips in something by Chopin or Falla with such an unassuming air that it never seems out of place. He began to learn the classics when he was three. His father, himself a professional pianist, would sit beside him at the keyboard, playing a Beethoven sonata, one hand at a time, while little Alex's fingers followed an octave away. Perhaps because of his blindness, "I always improvised and made up little pieces." so when he began to listen to records of Erroll Garner. Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum...
...artists were remarkably fortunate in their accompanists, and pianist Robert Freeman '57 imparted a subtlety to the Hindemith sonata that matched Mr. Gelley's. Melville Smith's brilliant harpsichord playing transcended the role of mere continue and turned the keyboard into an integral part of the ensemble. Midway in the evening, he delighted the audience with an interlude of harpsichord pieces by Byrd, Bull, and L. Couperin. They provided contrast to the suave tone of the woodwinds and added a touch of brighter color that perfectly balanced the program. ROBERT M. SIMON