Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...perfection of stomach and intestinal operations (see below). And a surgeon must learn his skill by work on dogs*: he could no more learn to open the human chest and remove a lung by reading a textbook than a Rubinstein could become a pianist without touching a keyboard. Millions of men & women now living would have died, or suffered immeasurably more, if insulin and penicillin had not been tested and retested on animals. With some drugs, each batch must be so tested before it can be sold...
...Liszt was the father of keyboard theatrics. Before his time, pianists usually played facing the orchestra with their backs to the audience or vice versa. Liszt turned the piano sideways to reveal his profile. One of his acts: in his debut in St. Petersburg, one chronicler reports, Liszt, "covered with clanking orders . . . mounted the platform, and, pulling his dogskin gloves from his shapely white hands, tossed them carelessly on the floor...
When debonair Count Guido Chigi-Saracini was a young music student in Florence, his teachers called him "the piano smasher." Often enough, when he came to a difficult passage, he could only bang his fists down on the keyboard in frustration and rage. After a try at composing, with little more success, he decided to take his music at one remove, pay for it rather than make it himself.' Today, after 40 years of footing bills, 70-year-old Count Chigi-Saracini has a good claim to the title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim...
...stage of the Chamber Music Auditorium of the Library of Congress the oldtime pianist sat at the keyboard, facing an open microphone. "Mister Morton," said Alan Lomax, assistant curator of the Library's American Folk Song Archive, "how about the beginning? Tell about where you were born and how you got started . . . and maybe keep playing piano while you talk...
...last week Columbia had released the results: a set of five LP records labeled "Great Masters of the Keyboard." Faithfully rerecorded, they sometimes had a slightly hurdy-gurdy sound, but were still so clear that teachers, students and today's virtuosos could hear with what touches and tempos the old boys...