Chiefswood celebrates life of E. Pauline Johnson - Brantford Expositor

Chiefswood celebrates life of E. Pauline Johnson
Brantford Expositor
On one wall hangs a poster from 1906, advertising that Pauline Johnson and Walter McCraye (her performance partner) will perform on July 16, at 8:30 in Steinway Hall in London, England. ... Brantford businessman William f. Cockshutt read the poem ...

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Abington Resident Lands Piano Award - Patch.com

Abington Resident Lands Piano Award
Patch.com
This inaugural recipient is a student of Steinway artist and concert pianist William Carr, who is Immaculata's Artist in Residence. Before beginning his university studies with Carr, DiCamillo was a student of two teachers in Philadelphia's northern ...

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Helmsley Hotel on Central Park South Is Set for Condos - Wall Street Journal


Wall Street Journal
Helmsley Hotel on Central Park South Is Set for Condos
Wall Street Journal
For example, billionaire William Ackman and a group of investors are in contract to buy a 13,554-square-foot condo in the development known as One57 for more than $90 million, people familiar with the matter have said. That tower, on West 57th St., is ...

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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra brings grandeur and grandstanding to Heinz Hall - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra brings grandeur and grandstanding to Heinz Hall
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Heard at Heinz Hall Friday night, the Romantic work brought out the best of the Steinway on stage, with grandeur meeting grandeur from the famed opening cascade of notes to the jaunty folk dance at the end. ... With conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier, she ...

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Letters: Wedding plans heat up for Bell - Brantford Expositor

Letters: Wedding plans heat up for Bell
Brantford Expositor
Last night Gertrude showed me the notice of your lectures in Steinway Hall and Brooklyn to be given simultaneously on the 7th May. It was like a bad dream. I do wish you would try the experiment ... Auntie told me to call him Cousin William, but I ...

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Steinway Mansion drops to $1.9M - Queens Chronicle

Steinway Mansion drops to $1.9M
Queens Chronicle
Other expenses for the Friends of Steinway Mansion are buying a domain name and maintaining a bank account, Singleton added. For now all fundraising efforts are conducted by volunteers, not paid workers, he said. William Steinway, the first president ...

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Here's what's going on in the Milwaukee area this weekend - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Here's what's going on in the Milwaukee area this weekend
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Circle-A Cafe: Fake Surfers, Fire Retarded, 8 p.m. May 17, DJ Brian Kirk, 10 p.m. May 17, Substitute, 8 p.m. May 18, DJ The Brains, 10 p.m. May 18, Bill Bynum and Co., Miss Lee and Poor John, 8 p.m. May 19, DJ Miss LaFontaine, 10 p.m. May 19, 932 E ...

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Book Covers: Before and After - New York Times (blog)


New York Times (blog)
Book Covers: Before and After
New York Times (blog)
Gabriele Wilson described the process she went through after deciding to use a single piano key on the cover of William H. Gass's novel “Middle C”: I asked piano-playing friends and piano repair shops in New York for a C key, to no avail. I called ...

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