Piano News Archive

01-Dec-2005

 

    'A minute with . . . Awadagin Pratt (Cincinnati Enquirer)He was the first African-American instrumentalist to win the Naumburg International Piano Competition - the Rolls-Royce of Piano contests. He's played with most major orchestras, appeared at the White House - twice - and on the "Today" show, "CBS Sunday Morning," "Good Morning America" and "Sesame Street."

    'Piano series features Chie Nagatani (Newport News-Times)The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts (OCCA) welcomes Chie Nagatani to the Newport Performing Arts Center Alice Silverman stage for the sixth performance of the Sunday Piano Series, showcasing a wide range of Piano artists and the center's new Steinway D.

    'Gala piano recital (Bangkok Post)The three top winners of the recent "7th Bangkok Chopin Piano Competition 2005" will be featured at a gala dinner and piano recital to be held on Sunday at the Asok Room, Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel.

    'Shoot the Piano Player (filmcritic.com)The first thing we see in Francois Truffaut?s second film, Shoot the Piano Player , is the inside of a piano, playing a saturnine little ditty, but we will never see the insides of the melancholic man who is playing the tune.

    'White House kicks off Yuletide season (Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier)WASHINGTON --- Marine Corps pianist Robert Boguslaw smiled as he tickled the ivories of a grand piano Wednesday, his rendition of "I'll be Home for Christmas" filling the ornamented entrance hall of the White House.

    'Cook is still at piano (Mobridge Tribune)When Cordelia Borth was a girl her mother would always shoo her out of the kitchen when she was cooking, telling Cordelia to "go practice your piano lessons."

    'Armed with piano power, UT takes aim at New York (Austin 360)"Why, this here sauce is made in New York City!" "New York City? Git a rope!" These piquant lines from an old Pace Picante Sauce commercial, in which hungry cowboys threaten to string up the cook for serving a "foreign" salsa, i.e., not Texas-made Pace, may be a bit over the top, but not much.

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