Author: Ignace Jan PaderewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Piano
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Steinway Progress
Author: Ignace Jan PaderewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Piano
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Steinway Progress
Author: Ignace Jan PaderewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Piano
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Steinway Progress
Author: Ignacy Jan PaderewskiSteinway Progress
Author: Steinway & SonsMusical Digest
Author: The Musician
Author: New York Recentered
Author: Kara Murphy SchlichtingPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022661302X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.
Current Encyclopedia, a Monthly Record of Human Progress
Author: Outlook
Author: Piano
Author: James BarronPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429900121
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An alluring exploration of the people and the legendary craftsmanship behind a single Steinway piano Like no other instrument, a grand piano melds engineering feats with the magical sounds of great music: the thunder of a full-throated bass, the bright, delicate trill of the upper treble. Alone among the big piano companies, Steinway still crafts all of its pianos largely by hand, imbuing each one with the promise and burden of its brand. In this captivating narrative, James Barron of The New York Times tells the story of one Steinway piano, from raw lumber to finished instrument. Barron follows that brand-new piano-known by its number, K0862-on its eleven-month journey through the Steinway factory, where time-honored manufacturing methods vie with modern-day industrial efficiency. He looks over the shoulders of men and women-some second- and third-generation employees, some recently arrived immigrants-who transform wood and steel into a concert grand. Together, they carry on the traditions begun more than 150 years ago by the immigrants who founded Steinway & Sons-a family that soared to prominence in the music world and, for a while, in New York City's political and economic life. Barron also explores the art and science of developing a piano's timbre and character before its first performance, when the essential question will be answered: Does K0862 live up to the Steinway legend? From start to finish, Piano will charm and enlighten music lovers.