The recordings are close and sometimes a bit crude - the dense textures of Six Pianos suffer most, the sharp edges of Music for Pieces of Wood least - but the sense of occasion always comes across vividly.
Professor Dai's acknowledgment of Siyu's decision to purchase a secondhand car so that the older woman could avoid taking a crowded bus or enduring a chatty cabdriver was hinted at but not directly stated, and so was her gratitude for Siyu's alertness, when she had failed to answer Siyu's weekly phone call and Siyu had discovered the older woman on the floor by the piano, having suffered a stroke.
Beatrice's piano playing suffered as her rheumatism got gradually worse, eliminating an enjoyment in which she excelled; however, this did not change her willingness to cater to her mother's needs.
After enjoying strong growth in the 1960's and 1970's, capitalizing on mass production techniques that helped lower costs and enabled a middle-class Japanese family to own an acoustic piano, the company suffered a long decline in acoustic piano sales, which at the time were the largest source of Yamaha's business.
Pubs and brewing group Marston's, which owns the Pitcher and Piano chain, has suffered a slump in trading – but has outperformed rivals.
A kindly, imposing man of great wit, charm, and generosity -and an excellent ballroom dancer who possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and piano repertoire -he suffered an aneurism behind the right knee in May of 2002, which led simultaneously to an amputation and kidney dialysis.
The Canadian piano virtuoso Glenn Gould, who suffered from disabling stagefright, did walk away, abandoning the public platform for the privacy of the recording studio.
Most serious piano students enjoy (suffer?) three or four teachers over the length of their education.
But in its second half, Piano begins to suffer from its stripped-back simplicity, when its sparse arrangements and slow pace start to feel plodding rather than profound.
A pregnant woman has an odd meeting in Regent's Park with a gay piano teacher after both have suffered the death of loved ones.
