Sentence examples for which piano from inspiring English sources

The building's base, which Piano describes as Baroque, is made of concrete slabs that float, at 11 different levels, around three sides of a central atrium.

The New York Times Building, which Piano has designed in collaboration with the New York firm of FXFowle, is a glass tower set behind a curtain of thin rods which form a sunscreen all the way up the façade.

The landmarks commission had just issued a ruling on two rather undistinguished brownstone houses on Madison Avenue, adjoining the museum, which Piano had wanted to demolish to make way for the entrance to the new building.

Ms. Bell, a student of Vittorio Giannini and Peter Mennin, showed the most refined grasp of structure and pacing in "Andromeda," less a piano concerto than a well-wrought celestial fantasy in which piano figured prominently.

When the Times held a press conference to reveal the final plan for the building, which Piano designed in association with the New York firm Fox & Fowle, Governor George Pataki showed up to hail it as "creative and brilliant," and Bruce Ratner, the president of Forest City Ratner, repeatedly referred to the tower as "really pretty".

His own contributions to the development of piano technique coincided with the period of the new instrument's first popularity and did much to establish the lines on which piano playing was to develop; important traces of his influence may be found in the piano works of Haydn, Beethoven, and even Mozart, as well as the next generation of pianist-composers.

Discussing the pianos, some players expressed preferences for one maker's style over another's, but most agreed that the more pertinent issue was which pianos particular composers played or owned, and whether their works bear evidence that they had specific instruments in mind.

Today we have digital pianos, for which the piano sound is sampled from top concert grand pianos with all 88-keys sampled at different velocity levels.

On Sunday afternoon Miranda Cuckson and Joanna Chao perform the American premiere of Mr. Haas's Duo for Viola and Prepared Piano, in which the piano strings create overtones that mesh with the viola's.

Brian Zeger provided the characterful playing essential to the work, in which the piano has a vivid storytelling role.

There's even a memorable passage in which the piano seems to venture into something approaching ragtime.