When, twenty-odd years later, the New York composer Herschel Garfein set several of my poems to music for tenor and piano, he mentioned my name as he visited the medical school at Columbia.
It was not so long ago that when the Russian piano style was mentioned, what came to mind was a huge, steely, aggressive sound with a dynamic range that ran from fortissimo to quadruple fortissimo.
Among the piano music not mentioned, favourably or harshly, by Poulenc, the best known pieces include the two Novelettes (1927 28), the set of six miniatures for children, Villageoises (1933), a piano version of the seven-movement Suite française (1935), and L'embarquement pour Cythère for two pianos (1953).
Aaron Copland may be mentioned for a piano trio; a sextet for clarinet, piano, and strings; a piano quartet; and a violin sonata.
Not only have sites like YouTube made it possible for numerous unknown adolescents to be discovered — Greyson Chance, a 13-year-old from Oklahoma, got a record deal after Ellen DeGeneres mentioned his YouTube piano version of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" on her talk show, for instance — but youngsters with no special talent, like Ms. Cinkle, are drawing mass followings as well.
It should be mentioned that the piano and violin work well for students at the age of four but other instruments, such as the flute or the guitar, have physical demands that require waiting until about the age of six.
As mentioned above, moving a piano up or down a flight of stairs is also generally considered a job for the pros.
The piano as an instrument can also be mentioned by name in lyrics, and the same rules can be applied to the piano's mechanical cousins, the clavichord, harpsichord, and because of its name, the African thumb piano.
He mentioned the track's repetitive piano loops, the falling melody lines.
When Prince Charles mentioned Jerusalem, from the top of the piano Laura nonchalantly produced a piece of paper, saying: "This is Parry's first draft".
