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Don't Pound the Player Piano Keys
By Marc Kaufman

I guess we won't have a player piano version of the Cowell Piano
Concerto, which I saw last evening at the San Francisco Symphony:

  Henry Cowell's Piano Concerto, which Tilson Thomas enjoys calling
  a "swashbuckling" work in the Romantic tradition. The soloist's part,
  however, is worthy of the Ramones or jazz avant-gardist Cecil Taylor:
  a torrent of crashes and clusters, smears and "great splodges of
  notes," played with fist and forearm.

Marc Kaufman

(Message sent Mon 12 Mar 2012, 03:44:15 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject: Don't, Keys, Piano, Player, Pound

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