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An Evening of Player Pianos |
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| Item Type: Sound Recording |
Duration: 105 min |
| Event Type: Interview and Music |
Program Origin: KPFA |
Blues, pop and classical music is heard performed on two 50 year old player pianos. Charles Amirkhanian and Bill Schechner are guests in the home of Sally and Dale Lawrence and are invited to paw through 700 rolls, and play as many as possible. Amirkhanian and Schechner also interview Dick Rutlinger & Mel Luccetti, who are both members of the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors Association (AMICA). |
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| Musical Selections: |
Song of India / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov -- American in Paris: Part 2 / George Gershwin -- Music of the Spheres [part 5 of "Winterreigen"] / Ernő Dohnanyi |
| Genre: |
Mechanical Music |
| Subject: |
Player piano; Player piano music; Mechanical pianos; Popular music |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles ; Schechner, Bill ; Lawrence, Sally; Lawrence, Dale; Rutlinger, Dick ; Luccetti, Mel ; Gershwin, George, 1898-1937; Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908; Dohnányi, Ernő, 1877-1960 |
| Recording Date: |
10/7/1972 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
10/11/1972 |
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| Musical Selections: |
Yes, We Have No Bananas / Silver & Cohn -- Temptation Rag / Henry Lodge -- If you knew Susie (1925) / DeSylva & Meyer -- Stumbling (1922) / Zez Confrey -- [unidentified piece] -- Ain't We Got Fun (1901) / Kahn, Egan & Whiting -- Scherzo Humoristique: The Cat and The Mouse / Aaron Copland -- Down When the Sun Goes Down -- Some Little Bird |
| Performers: |
Lee Sims, (Down When the Sun Goes Down) |
| Genre: |
Mechanical Music |
| Subject: |
Player piano; Player piano music; Mechanical pianos; Popular music; Piano music (Ragtime) |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles ; Schechner, Bill ; Lawrence, Sally; Lawrence, Dale; Rutlinger, Dick ; Luccetti, Mel ; Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990; Lodge, Henry, 1884-1933; Confrey, Zez, 1895-1971; Sims, Lee; DeSylva, BG ; Meyer, Joseph ; Kahn, Gus, 1886-1941 ; Egan, Raymond B., 1890-1952; Whiting, Richard A., 1891-1938 |
| Recording Date: |
10/7/1972 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
10/11/1972 |
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