Sentences with phrase «when pianists»

Algorithms prevent the keyboard from going out of pitch or being triggered unintentionally, such as when pianists move their fingers to prepare for future notes or change hand position.

Post-Dispatch classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller told me that Gould's music is as divisive today as it was 50 years ago, when the pianist publicly clashed with conductor Leonard Bernstein over the tempo of a performance.

Even when a pianist interprets a Chopin piece, it's still clearly Chopin.

Cage's 4 min 33 sec, the work which starts when the pianist raises the lid of the piano and finishes, without him having played a note, four minutes and 33 seconds later, has its parallel in Rauschenberg's white paintings.

Not exact matches

They have a vegan brunch on Sundays that's quite nice, when we went it even had a pianist playing!

WHAT YOU DID N'T KNOW: Jeremiah took piano lessons when he was younger and is a decent pianist.

Last summer, when I ran the music camp with my pianist friend, we'd give the kids free time at the park every day, but that was just for an hour or so at lunch time.

ONE - MAN BAND Encore, by the late Japanese artist Shigeo Fukuda, uses similar principles to represent a pianist and violinist in the same sculpture when viewed from two vantage points.

The late classical pianist Rosalyn Tureck once was told by a teacher, when she was still quite young, «it's a superb conception; unfortunately, it's impossible.»

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig have recently discovered that these capabilities are embedded in a much more finely - tuned way than previously assumed — and even differ depending on the style of the music: They observed that the brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of music.

«When we asked them to play a harmonically unexpected chord within a standard chord progression, their brains started to replan the actions faster than classical pianists.

Keith Jarrett, world - famous jazz pianist, once answered in an interview when asked if he would ever be interested in doing a concert where he would play both jazz and classical music: «No, that's hilarious.

«Miles Davis is not Mozart: The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently: Even when playing the same piece of music.»

Interestingly, the classical pianists performed better than the others when it came to following unusual fingering.

When the scientists asked the pianists to play a harmonically unexpected chord within a standard chord progression, the jazz pianists» brains started to replan the actions faster than those of the classical pianists.

When perestroika began, he says, social scientists had the upper hand: «Economists, journalists, pianists... they were against natural science.

And when your first career plan is to be a concert pianist, you're used to being stubborn in the face of bad odds, and so pursuing an academic career becomes a much less daunting prospect.

One piece of this puzzle is that pianists who are good at playing by ear are also good at memorizing, according to the group's findings when they put it to the test.

Thompson, a former concert pianist who took up running in her 70s, had a few things working against her when she lined up at the starting point of San Diego's Rock»N Roll Marathon this past Sunday.

She is a fantastic make up artist, classical pianist, mother and the one who always keeps us laughing when we are together!

A passionate pianist and a soulful puzzle maker who treasures silence aren't the best neighbors, but things get interesting when they start to date.

2018-04-08 17:04 A passionate pianist and a soulful puzzle maker who treasures silence aren't the best neighbors, but things get interesting when they start to date.

He found success as a performer beginning in 1930 when he appeared in the musical June Moon, written by Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman, in the role of a wisecracking pianist.

But the film also has too many memorable vignettes to count: Haven Hamilton's prickly recording session, where he mercilessly browbeats a hippie pianist; Barbara Jean's squirmily uncomfortable, rambling psychological meltdown while performing live for an impatient, unforgiving audience; Sueleen's conflicted ambitions when her «big break» devolves into a cheap striptease act; gentle Mr. Green's quiet suffering at the hands of his flakey niece; John Triplette's negotiations with various talent, buttering each of them up with compliments while at the same time insulting the musical form (and its admirers) in which they practice.

When Jack Nicholson for About Schmidt was up against Daniel Day Lewis for Gangs of New York, Michael Caine for the Quiet American and Nicolas Cage for Adaptation, Adrien Brody won for The Pianist.

They can, however, be ahead of the curve when it comes to late - breaking Oscar heavies — think «The Pianist» or «Million Dollar Baby.»

The youngest best actor winner in history is Adrien Brody, who was 29 when he won for The Pianist — seven years older than Chalamet is now.

Warren Oates stars as Benny, a grubby lounge pianist playing for tourists in a Mexican dive when a couple of American hitmen (Robert Webber and Gig Young) saunter in looking for information on «an old friend.»

Fats Domino: Remembering a Rock and Roll Pioneer — David A. Graham eulogizes the pianist and singer, who died at 98, as one of the few remaining links to the era when jazz, blues, boogie, and R&B were melding to form a new genre.

Life is almost like a musical for a jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) when he falls in love with an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) in Los Angeles.

What We Watched This Week: Andrew: I Love You, Beth Cooper, Burn Notice, When Harry Met Sally [00:00:40] Douglas: Chuck, The Big Bang Theory, District 9 [00:11:40] Damion: Comedy Central Presents, Sin City, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Pianist, Harvey [00:20:55]

When Hitler invaded Austria in 1938, the young prize - winning Jewish pianist Sofia Cosma had to return to her home in Latvia, where she was arrested sent to a Soviet gulag where she spent seven years.

Grainger and Shawkat will star as Laura and Tyler respectively, best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim — an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.

We experience this when we listen to a live concert pianist's fingers glide over the 88 keys of a Steinway piano; when we see their body movements; their feet placing the perfect pressure on the peddles at a precise moment in time.

Like Dakota, a 12 - year - old who wants to be a TV anchorman or concert pianist when he grows up.

(Funny though, while I do see that PageFlip and AirTurn are all the rage, I had no problem whatsoever turning good old paper pages manually when I played music a while back... I guess I can see the improvement for pianists who are in the process of learning a piece, but requiring it to function seems way overkill to me.)

ALEJANDRO CESARCO: SONG / / RENAISSANCE SOCIETY By Stephanie Cristello Download PDF here > When a piece of classical music is played, we intuitively attach its melody to the name of the composer — not the pianist who performs its variation.

When Ms. Macel was curator of the French pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale, she chose a non-French artist: the Albanian - born, Berlin - based Anri Sala, and his «Ravel Ravel Unravel» video work in which two pianists play Ravel's «Piano Concerto for the Left Hand,» which the composer composed for a musician who had lost a hand in World War I.

According to an obituary by William Grimes in The New York Times published on December 10, she was just 17 when she eloped with Jack Freilicher, a jazz pianist who played with the Army band at West Point during World War II.

He studied the piano and the theory of music with Lockrem Johnson, and, when Johnson was away, with Wesley Wehr, who was introduced to Tobey in 1949 by their pianist friend Berthe Poncy Jacobson.

When a piece of classical music is played, we intuitively attach its melody to the name of the composer — not the pianist who performs its variation.

Like a very talented pianist friend once told me when I was a boy; it's better to practice a musical instrument for five minutes a day, than to practice for two hours, once a week.

07 Apr 2010 Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories at IMMA The celebrated Irish pianist Hugh Tinney will make a welcome return to the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Saturday 17 April 2010, when he will give the first Irish performance of Morton Feldman's complex, meditative work Triadic Memories

The celebrated Irish pianist Hugh Tinney will make a welcome return to the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Saturday 17 April 2010, when he will give the first Irish performance of Morton Feldman's complex, meditative work Triadic Memories.

The exhibition will be opened by the composer and pianist Kevin Volans at 6.00 pm on Wednesday 16 February, when Anderson will perform a version of Duets on Ice.

Alan was also a talented pianist, and when he saw the jazzman Coleman Hawkins playing in an Edinburgh record shop he took up the saxophone.

When Dover's mother inquired how often the pianist came, she was told the facility couldn't afford it more than once a month.