“Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.” FeelingsAudienceMissingProducePerformancesExcellentPianoSobrietyAbsorbingPianistHardwareCoolness Author:Donal Henahan
“A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.” IfsMenWorldGivingMayLittlesHelpingTogetherArtistConsciousnessCompanyEffectsProduceSingingInstrumentsUnityVariousIntellectSettingSettingsPianoToneConcertsPrincipalOrchestraSymphony Book:Counsels and Maxims Source: Counsels and Maxims
“I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.” PeopleWritingTryingLooksKindJobsNextProduceProjectsPianoLook UpBe Kind Author:Barry Manilow
“You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.” IfsKnowsTwoEnoughEnergyPrinciplesProduceTheoryPianoQuantumProbabilityParticlesQuantum TheoryCollide Author:Isidor Isaac Rabi
“I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque.” KnowsTryingLiteratureForceSoundCan DoConditionsProducePianoStrictTranslationsViolinGrotesque Author:Amos Oz