Piano News Archive

02-Dec-2005

 

    'Claremont's commitment to piano trios (The Capital Times)Beauty can be a burden, especially if you are a serious female musician and your agent or record company uses your good looks to sell your art. So does being attractive get in the way of having a

    'Uplifting surgery for the shoulder (Baltimore Sun)'Reversal' of ball joint allows seniors to do everyday tasks again without pain Helen Richardson leads an active life. The 87-year-old Rosemont resident swims three mornings a week, teaches deep-water exercise classes and Piano lessons, plays golf and helps care for her husband, James, who has had several small strokes.

    'Syntheway Updates Virtual Piano Instrument (Harmony Central)Realistic Virtual Piano is a acoustic grand piano emulation available in VST format for Windows computers. Capturing the sound of a Kawai Grand Piano, this latest release of the plug-in adds MIDI automation support via MIDI contrinuous controller data, a redesigned GUI, and bug fixes.

    '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.

    'Director Marks His Tenth Year Leading Chorus (Vineyard Gazette)In the mid-1950s in a small New Jersey town, a four-year-old boy named Peter Boak asked his parents if he could learn to play the piano. A musical journey was starting - one that five decades later would help blend the voice of 125 Vineyarders into glorious choral sound.

    'Tickling the Ivories of Life (Free Lance)Many people dream about taking something they love and turning it into a career. For Gilroy resident Martin Franke, that dream came true. "I made my career after my apprenticeship with Steinway and Sons, and I even met my wife when working on a piano at a church," Franke said.

    '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.

    '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."

    'Piano artist at performing arts center (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.

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