A Natural History Of The Piano

A Natural History Of The PianoA fascinating celebration of the piano, including tales of its masters from Mozart and Beethoven to Oscar Peterson and Jerry Lee Lewis, told with the expertise of composer and author of Temperament, Stuart Isacoff. This history takes us back to the piano's humble genesis as a simple keyboard, and shows how everyone from Ferdinando de' Medici to Herbie Hancock affected its evolution of sound and influence in popular music. Presenting the instrument

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and the ways in which the tides of history inevitably shape and define our lives

brought to life for all time in Martin Scorsese's great movie The Last Waltz

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It's a Sliding Doors for our modern generation and I greedily devoured every page

and the winning goal was a penalty in the last minute of extra time - proof if ever it was needed that football can deliver the dramatic like no other sport

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a scandal brings a young man back home to the small town

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elegant and suspenseful

abandoned by their father and living with their stepmother in Louisiana