Included were a handful of late Brahms works (a Ballade, a Rhapsody and three Intermezzos), four finger breakers by Liszt, a hefty Chopin group and short but demanding pieces by Faure, Ravel and Debussy.
And she closed her concert with a rhythmically pointed, vital account of Ginastera's Sonata No. 1 (Op. 22), offering the Constantinescu finger-breaker as an encore.
Among modern pianists, Gottschalk is remembered for finger-breakers like "Le Banjo" -- he may have been a fiercely American patriot, but he used French for the titles of many pieces -- and "Union".
Our hero's carnal campaigns, which charm his biographer into panting prose ("He wrapped himself around her, licked the salt off her lips, her fingers, wherever, as the breakers gently lapped the sand"), come off less like a pursuit of happiness than like yet another facet of Beatty's will to power.
Breaker boys sometimes also had their fingers amputated by the rapidly moving conveyor belts.
Seemingly out of empathy, Mr. Breaker admitted he was born with an extra finger, removed at birth.
The slate, however, was sharp, and breaker boys would often leave work with their fingers cut and bleeding.
Vibration responses of the VR gloves were measured at the middle phalanges of the index and middle fingers using two Velcro finger adapters under the standardized vibration spectra and the spectra of 3 different hand tools, namely a road breaker, a nutrunner and an orbital sander.
