Mr. Barry took only one piano lesson and didn't fare well as a phrase-turner.
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If one piano teacher has too many students, she might sluice the spillover to you.
Groups can request and get more than one piano, as the New York City Housing Authority's youth chorus had done.
Ravel originally composed "Mother Goose" in 1910 as a set of duets, for one piano and four hands, for the children of friends.
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But in 1962, during a seven-week tour of the Soviet Union, an ingenious piano tuner gave me the chance to experience what having more than one piano at one's disposal might be like.
And one expects the piano to enter that way, too, but it doesn't.
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Schumann added two more movements, and the resulting Piano Concerto in A minor has become one of the most popular romantic piano concertos in the repertoire.
How was it that a woman apparently of little musical ability had one day sat at a piano and had begun to play Chopin with ease, and Chopin music that no one had heard before?
The piano is one of several items up for sale with links to big 60s bands.
Sotheby's says the piano is one of only six Ruhlmann pianos whose whereabouts are known and one of three that are similarly shaped.
From ragtime to modern fusion, jazz music has always relied on one staple instrument: the piano.
Like if I wrote about guys who feel compelled to play the piano anytime we pass one by.
For instance, one of his best-loved piano works, the E-flat Intermezzo, Opus 117, no.1, begins and ends with an especially beautiful melody.
PianoDisc, which is one of few modern-day makers of player piano systems (Others include: Pianoforce, Yamaha, and QRS), hires the leading interpreters of some of the greatest composers to make a specific piece for the company.
The piano interlude captures the sweet side of the one-eyed pianist's syncopated style, set in a minor key but with a rolling, rollicking New Orleans bass that demonstrates how men like Booker used their music to drive the blues away.
He is a member of the Saudi royal family, and one of the interesting aspects of his home is the grand piano in his Victorian mansion.
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Jazz legend Herbie Hancock saw one future of music when he was blown away by the piano skills of 14-year-old Jennifer Lin , awed by a classical maestro with full-bore improvisational chops.
One of his mentors was a talented painter, and Jiang himself plays piano, erhu (Chinese two-stringed violin) and flute.
On his instrument, this pedal shifted the piano's action so that the hammers actually struck only one string at a time.
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Lord Lloyd Webber discovered Ewen during BBC One's Your Country Needs You competition and accompanied her on the piano during Saturday's performance.
In the early '90s, Amos earned notoriety for being one of the few up-and-coming female musicians to use piano as a primary instrument.
One particular demo that we saw involved the swarm bots playing a projected piano of sorts to perform a short snippet of Beethoven's "Fur Elise" -- internal cameras, special "hats" and cameras mounted around the room lend a hand in carrying out the assigned duties.
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He's made two CDs of piano arrangements of songs by the British rock band Radiohead, and one each of songs by Nick Drake and Elliott Smith.
Newman's presence came at a key time: Though there are recordings of Tatum in private later, this is one of the few known documents from the early '40s, when the piano titan was at the peak of his powers.
Now, Dr Cummer and his colleagues have shown off an acoustic cloaking technique that works in air, for audible frequencies between one and four kilohertz - corresponding to two octaves on the higher half of a piano.
At one point in our conversations, since he is as articulate and often surprising off the piano as on, I asked Mr. Alterman to describe his inner musical odyssey from boyhood in Atlanta to growing recognition in New York and by the jazz community.
And there is one unexpected transgression that will carry Ms. Germanotta into middle age: she can sing and play piano like a pro.
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