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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Orchestra, and honorary chairman of the Greater Princeton Steinway Society, Ashkenazy makes his home in Meggan, Switzerland...by a ten-meter tunnel. He owns two pianos—a Steinway and a Bosendorfer—and a library containing thousands...
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Arvo Pärt
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...first steps, the changes which occur between these notes. For this you don't need sound techniques, you don't require a Steinway. This comes from the human voice, it begins with the most primitive instrument. I am not against the progress of audio techniques...
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Monk, Thelonious
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Barbara, to raise him and his brother and sister. Though the family budget was tight, she managed to buy a baby grand Steinway piano, and when Thelonious turned eleven she began paying for his weekly piano lessons. Even at that young age it was clear...
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Bernstein, Elmer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...School of Music. His goal was to become a concert pianist, and he gave his first recital three years later in New York's Steinway Hall. Early in his long association (1934–1949) with Michelson, however, she noticed that he also had an interest...
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Thelonious Monk
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Thelonious's mother, Barbara, to raise him and his brother and sister by herself. Mrs. Monk did all she could to encourage her young son's interest in music. Though the family budget was tight, she managed to buy a baby grand Steinway p
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Matilda Sissieretta Joyner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...5,000, drew a strongly positive reaction. The following year Joyner made her first New York appearance in a concert at Steinway Hall. Later in 1888, Joyner sang at Wallack's Theater on Broadway, becoming the first African American to appear on stage...
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Harris, Susannah (ca. 1920)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...In 1913 and 1914 the Spiritualist journal Light contained many testimonies in favor of Harris's mediumship. In 1919 at Steinway Hall, London, while blindfolded, she executed a painting in oils upside down and nearly completed another in about two hours...
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Adolph Coors
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Coors' favorite easy chair are still in place. A large chandelier imported from Copenhagen hangs from a high ceiling, and a Steinway piano waits for players in the music room. There are 22 rooms in the grand Coors mansion. The entire house was moved several...
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Fletcher, John William (1852-1913)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Volckman, at the British National Association of Spiritualists, and at the Dalston Association. In Cavendish Rooms and in Steinway Hall he delivered many platform addresses on the religion and philosophy of Spiritualism and instituted Sunday class meetings...
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