Steinway fans will surely continue to watch and worry, but they may take some comfort in this: Paulson promises not to change the piano that they love.
While Lamb set out to change the piano, in creating the technology that forms the keyboard – called SEA Interactive – he has happened upon a way to interact with machines which could stretch far beyond music into sectors such as gaming and robotics.
Schnabel's commitment as a world-famous pianist to the lofty German masterworks, his eschewal of surface charm and the whole repertory of music that thrived on it, changed the face of piano playing midway in this century.
This radically changed the nature of the piano, turning it into a gently startling one-man percussion band, and it was one of the things for which he became known.
After she presented him with the melody she had developed in Puerto Rico, he began playing chord changed on the piano, while Carey sang the tune and directed him.
"I got him to change the name "Piano District," because I told him the people didn't like that.
After it was filmed by François Truffaut in 1960, as Tirez sur le Pianiste, the American publishers changed the title to Shoot the Piano Player.
Islington Mill, Fri to 25 May JA Over the past five years, Phronesis have slowly changed the rules of the jazz piano trio, frequently making the dramatic Danish bassist Jasper Høiby the fulcrum and dominant melody-player, with British pianist Ivo Neame and Norwegian-Swedish drummer Anton Eger supplying the grooves.
It was as if the piano and music completely changed the situation and took them outside themselves".
But thanks to his indomitable mother — who bartered roast chickens for piano lessons, legally changed the family name (to sound "aristocratic"), and dragged her son to ballet class at the age of seven — he found redemption as a protégé of Balanchine, and became one of the great dancers of the twentieth century.
