In 1817, Thomas Broadwood, a vastly successful English piano manufacturer, visited Beethoven in Vienna and, shortly after, sent the composer a top-of-the-line instrument.
In June 1837 Chopin visited London incognito in the company of the piano manufacturer Camille Pleyel where he played at a musical soirée at the house of English piano maker James Broadwood.
He taught English, gave piano lessons to orphans and helped a friend open a chain of barbecue restaurants.
Who in the neighborhood knows Musetta, and what do they think of her? Next, the director had them walk through the scene, speaking the lines alternately in Italian and English with piano underscoring.
His mother, Phyllis Summers, was English; she taught piano and was an excellent baker, a skill she passed on to young Ralph.
Emmy, as she was known throughout her life, started out studying English, French and piano — subjects more socially acceptable for a girl — but her interests soon turned to math.
Leroy Thomas is part of zydeco's youth movement from the Gulf Coast circuit, singing in English and playing piano accordion as well as the older-style single-row accordion.
Then, during the Christmas of the same year, the mood shifted decisively when the two families shared the celebrations and sang carols in German and English around the piano.
The English Patient, The Piano (pictured), Shine, and Snow Falling on Cedars are all Bloomsbury books made into successful films without the publisher's having a direct financial involvement, though it benefited from increased book sales.
Businessman and amateur musician, this renaissance man loved his family, music, art, literature and gardening in the country; read and spoke French, German and English; practiced his piano every day until a month before death; and loved his daily walks.
(Petrusich) LEROY THOMAS AND THE ZYDECO ROADRUNNERS (Sunday) Straight from the bayou comes Leroy Thomas, who's part of zydeco's youth movement: singing in English and playing piano accordion, as well as the older-style single-row accordion, while the rub board clatters merrily.
