Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...impersonating Batman, and gradually sheds down to a star-patterned T shirt, slacks and a Porky Pig button that lights up. Then, kicking away the piano bench, he goes into an old-fashioned rock-'n'-roll finale and plays standing up, kneeling down, even handstanding on the keyboard with feet high...
...excellent concert artists on the music faculty. One of these is assistant professor Laurence D. Berman. As one enthusiastic undergraduate said. "He is a fantastic, incredible pianist." Students who took the second half of Music 1 last spring were privileged to hear Berman illustrating his musical ideas at the keyboard. Those in Music 154 remember his playing the Liszt "Vallee d'Obermann" or improvising Chopin etudes. They remember his legendary ability sight-read scores. But those outside the musical community may not be aware of Berman's pianistic abilities since he seems to prefer small and intimate audiences...
With his successes and failings tightly linked together, Barenboim is one of the most intriguing figures in music today. His pudgy little hands fly over the keyboard, and he is a prodigious sight reader. The trouble, some critics contend not unjustly, is that he spends too much time sight-reading and not enough time thinking about the works he already knows. But Barenboim's surface accomplishment is perhaps a peculiar result of the frantic musical life he has so far chosen to lead...
...Cookies. Never gazing hammily at the ceiling as so many romantic keyboard idols do, Ohlsson made it clear that he prefers Chopin the dramatist, without entirely sacrificing Chopin the nocturnal perfumer. Rightly so. In the E Minor Concerto, Chopin accomplished the considerable feat of turning the roulades, trills and other frills of the 19th century salon style into the stuff of major symphonic theater...
SHORTLY after the Tories' upset victory last June, Edward ("Ted") Heath invited a few colleagues in for tea at 10 Downing Street. When someone remarked the new Prime Minister's Steinway had already been installed in the drawing room, Heath sat down at the keyboard and began to play. After he had completed an entire Beethoven sonata, he stood up. "I'm sorry," he said, "but, gentlemen, when I start something, I always finish...