The gypsies adjusted the ropes trapped under the piano, counted to three, squeezed their breath like professional weight lifters, and took off, their legs shaking, their otherwise enormous bellies flattened against the piano's lacquered surface.
As he moved on to the gran salone, the room where Hannibal plays the grand piano, the Count gestured at some of the decorations.
All Ivy, for example, has some helpers with backgrounds in subjects like music theory who watch over — but do not teach — a student's piano practice, counting off beats and making sure the student is playing accurately, Ms. Neuman said.
"Unless you count piano lessons," he said.
"Long Working Day" mentions Count Basie, a "dusty piano," and "jazz counting".
(Today, when preparing to make a ballet, he studies the score, at the piano, if the counts are difficult. Otherwise, he goes by his ear).
But her "Cyclops," scored for speakers, choir, violin, clarinet and piano, can be counted as one of the more successful ones — not least of all because it didn't take itself too seriously.
On Divided By Surfaces and Silence, accordion and piano play what hardly counts as a melody, so basic is it, while what sounds like a loop of someone scrunching a ball of paper provides the rhythmic backdrop.
He played classical music, piano and drums - counting Lester Young, Horace Silver and Herb Pomeroy among his influences.
His piano style, partly derived from Count Basie's, was different from that of most of his contemporaries.
