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player piano
player piano an upright piano incorporating a mechanical system that automatically plays the encoded contents of a paper strip. This strip, perforated with holes whose position and length determine pitch and duration, is drawn over a pneumatic device that shoots streams of air through the holes.... Read more |
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Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack 1940– Singer, songwriter Interested Mainly in Music and Food Demo Led to Atlantic Contract Slew Audiences Softly Celebrated Love With Bryson Selected discography Sources So timeless is the appeal of Roberta Flack’s soulful singing that some of her hits of the 1970s are... Read more |
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piano nobile
piano nobile. Principal storey of a building containing the apartments of ceremony and reception, usually set over a lower floor, and approached by a flight of steps from the ground level, often expressed as a perron. The piano nobile was often of greater height than the storeys above and below,... Read more |
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Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Ax Emanuel Ax (born 1949), American pianist, winner of the first Artur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, became a major contemporary intetpreter of the traditional piano literature who was also willing to explore serious new compositions for the piano. Emanuel Ax was born... Read more |
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Francis Gano Benedict
Benedict, Francis Gano (b. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 3 October 1870; d. Machiasport, Maine, 14 May 1957) chemistry, physiology. Washington Gano Benedict, a businessman, and Harriet Emily Barrett were average middle-class parents with secondary-school backgrounds. They moved in 1881 to Boston, where... Read more |
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Martha Argerich
MARTHA ARGERICH Born: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5 June 1941 Genre: Classical Martha Argerich is one of the most sought-after piano virtuosos of our time. That she seems to treat her career playing the piano as an imposition rather than a reward only seems to make her more appealing to fans. Her... Read more |
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Fiona Apple
FIONA APPLE Born: Fiona Apple Maggart; New York, New York, 13 September 1977 Genre: Rock, Pop Best-selling album since 1990: Tidal (1996) Hit songs since 1990: "Shadowboxer," "Criminal" The self-proclaimed "Sullen Girl," Fiona Apple was viewed as a contradiction when she burst onto the music... Read more |
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Mitsuko Uchida
Mitsuko Uchida In a career that has spanned almost 30 years, Mitsuko Uchida (born 1948) has earned her title as one of the greatest classical pianists of the 20th century. She is most readily associated with her ability and recordings of Mozart's piano works and is a sought-after concert pianist... Read more |
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Robert Russell Bennett
Robert Russell Bennett Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) was an arranger, composer, and conductor who orchestrated the scores of more than three hundred Broadway musicals over a period spanning four decades Bennett was born into a musical family. His father, George Robert Bennett, played... Read more |
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Keane
KeaneRock group While the British band Keane has endured inevitable comparisons to the piano-driven pop of fellow Englishman band Coldplay, after the release of two outstanding albums they were able to flourish with a style completely their own. Originally a four-piece, it was after Keane lost... Read more |
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