Once we had memorized the keyboard, our fingers were colored with chalk. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My house or at their place. Wherever. I can take my keyboard with me if it’s somewhere other than my house.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I laid my fingers on the keyboard and began to play. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was a man in there, sitting at the keyboard, with his back to her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

There are several computer monitors at a table, with drum pads, keyboards, and speakers nearby. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He jiggled the mouse beside his keyboard to get rid of the screen saver. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Now take a look at the piano keyboard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Beneath it, a keyboard was set into the wall, angling out enough for someone to type on it with ease if standing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He lifted his fingers from the keyboard and sat perfectly still He felt his hearing sharpen and sharpen until it seemed like another sense entirely, reaching out and around him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As I do, the glasses sense my finger movements, and a virtual keyboard slides out. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Congress’s rejection of funds to develop a supersonic transport in 1971, the world’s continued rejection of an efficiently designed typewriter keyboard, and Britain’s long reluctance to adopt electric lighting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Plutarch enters some sort of code on a keyboard, and lights begin to flash. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Arnold worked on the screened-in porch, sitting peacefully at his round picnic table drinking his sweet hippie tea and making money while he tap-tap-tapped on his keyboard. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers seemed to hammer the keyboard of their own will. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

For my birthday that year, I got one of those plastic keyboard toys done up in cotton-candy pink, the kind with fat keys that played way out of tune and drove grown-ups crazy. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She slid her notebook next to the keyboard. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He lectured you about respecting your elders and then let me play with the keyboard until your grounding was over, which was kind of awesome. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If you have trouble keeping track of the notes, use a piano keyboard, a written chromatic scale, or the chromatic fingerings for your instrument to count half steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Abbey takes piano lessons on a portable electric keyboard that my father bought from a consignment shop in Key Largo. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I give her the information, and while she's tapping away on a keyboard, I say, "I need to know if there's been a problem with this blanket." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mitch: Technically, it didn't take a big mouth to type it on a keyboard. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This issue of tuning came to a head with the growing dominance of keyboard instruments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A good electronic keyboard will transpose for you. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Her fingers flew over her keyboard as windows opened and closed on her screen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The staggering fact is that Bach could improvise fugues like this at the keyboard, and often did. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I earned this, and soon I’ll be able to buy a keyboard and pay for piano lessons all on my own. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He’d manhandle one of the beleaguered cats up onto the keyboard and coax it with a scrap of ham to walk back and forth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He toggled the joystick, stabbed at the keyboard, hit the red firing button. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was over there in a blink, setting his notebook down, tapping the space bar on the keyboard to wake the monitor up. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I’ve got Mom’s freckles and her fingers, which are long and limber and make it easy to reach across my keyboard. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And let my fingers dance across the keyboard. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A musical keyboard and a panel of sliding buttons are also attached to the arced table. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The library is filled with hushed sounds—clacking keyboards, turning pages, whispers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then both hands would charge faster and faster up and down the keyboard, armor clashing, bugles blowing, and by the end, I knew it didn’t matter whether Napoleon ever fought again or not. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody came up with the idea of hiring a gospel band with a keyboard player, who wears shades and plays too loud, but no one’s complaining. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sling my stuff onto the backseat, being careful with the keyboard. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Rafe pushed a bunch of buttons on the keyboard in front of him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Dad then brought out some paper diagrams of a typewriter keyboard, and passed one to each of us. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can print out a picture of a keyboard and practice that way. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I’m trying to save up for piano lessons and a keyboard.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In this ten-note example from Corelli, all the keyboard player has in front of him or her is the bass line notes, borrowed from the cello player, and those extra numbers above it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She held her thumb over the keyboard for a long time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Glancing over her shoulder at me, she slowly walked two fingers of her right hand up and down the keyboard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Look at a telephone or the top of a computer keyboard. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I knew what was coming next, so I quickly entered a command on my laptop that locked its keyboard and erased the hard drive. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The song continued to play, and I fell asleep, my face planted on the keyboard. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He walked close enough to the keyboard that he could have played a note. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Jack Rabbit Jones on keyboard laid down smooth chords with his left hand while the fingers on his right hand hip-hopped across the twelve-bar blues trail. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Fig jumped up onto my desk and planted himself on top of the keyboard. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Speech and writing differ in their mechanics, of course, and that is one reason children must struggle with writing: it takes practice to reproduce the sounds of language with a pencil or a keyboard. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even the little cellar places with only piano space had fabulous keyboard artists such as James P. Johnson and Jelly Roll Morton, and singers such as Ethel Waters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a picture of a nineteen-note-per-octave keyboard; notice the double-decker nature of the black notes and the extra little black note between the bigger clusters. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But it is clear at the keyboard that in each case there is no note in between them. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She took her hands from the keyboard and rubbed her eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drummed my fingers against the keyboard, wondering what to say. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was crammed with switches, buttons, keyboards, joysticks, and display screens. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The sense of order out of chaos that was ushered in by ‘well- tempered’ keyboards would have appealed to Bach enormously. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"I don't know," she says, striking the keyboard as if finishing a thought. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bill Gates had that same feeling when he first sat down at the keyboard at Lakeside. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Inside the museum, me and Charlie make huge bubbles, create a song on a giant keyboard, and pedal a bike that makes a light come on. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She begins to type rapidly on her keyboard, authorizing her decision. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Likewise the keyboard music of sixteenth-century English composers Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and John Redford, which was originally intended to be sung, was soon adapted, by them and others, into music tailor-made for the virginals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frost drops her magazine and even the receptionist has stopped typing, her hands held above her keyboard like a conductor waiting to cue a symphony. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

MMO players could only see these online environments through a small two-dimensional window—their desktop computer monitor—and they could only interact with it by using keyboards, mice, and other crude input devices. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Bending over the keyboard, a long strand of brown hair keeps falling down into her eyes, and she keeps trying to hook it behind her left ear. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cover art showed a yellow robot-like character playing a keyboard with his band behind him. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She typed in the message, her fingers flying over the keyboard. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The fingernail-delicate tiptoeing up and down the keyboard, each touch a new sound. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I spin to see Jason’s shoulders bowed forward, his hands reaching over his wheelchair tray to the keyboard. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The constant hum of work filled the cavernous space — the clicking of fingers on keyboards. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was easy for me to imagine myself hunched over a keyboard, pounding out reams of deathless, hard-boiled prose. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I sat down at the keyboard and leafed through the stack of typewritten articles on the nearby tray. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

For example, the G sharp and the A flat are played on the same key on the keyboard; they sound the same. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

On the platform with him was the little keyboard instrument with which he would relay questions to Billy from the crowd. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was set on one of those specially made desks with the drawers and the slide-out keyboard tray, and a designated compartment for the printer. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A cacophony of the buzzing fluorescent lights and fingers striking keyboards filled the stale air. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Sumaiya runs straight for the piano and tries to push the keyboard cover open. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

But Bachpere was involved in a keyboard innovation that proved equally important to the history of music as the invention of the piano. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She tapped the keyboard to a gossip site. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Stepping over Ernie’s legs, she came over to the computer and began wiping down the keyboard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

With eighty dollars a week, I might have enough for lessons and a keyboard by the time I start seventh grade this September. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Beyond their own voices they could hear, drifting down the drafty halls, a frenetic, muted tapping—the sleepless Number Two on her computer keyboard—and from somewhere above them the occasional creak of a floorboard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

My heart jumps as I hear noise outside the doorway, and I yank my hand away from the keyboard, worried we’ve been caught. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Chuck was pointing at a spot near the floor, right underneath the screen and keyboard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then he placed his front paws on the keyboard and pressed down, creating a discordant chord. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She strikes tinkling notes at the top of the keyboard and then ones in the middle. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The devices that use standard computer keyboards wouldn’t work. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The pebbled surface is a magnet for grease and dirt, and you can pretty much forget about reaming out the gaps in the keyboard. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Each voice faded out: keyboard, bass, percussion, blues harp, and blues guitar. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They passed the Logan County Gazette office, where the newspaper editor, Ms. Turner, hunched over her keyboard, index fingers in pecking position. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The keyboard is more than four feet long, while the rest of it stretches at least six feet. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Our hands turn pages of books, press fingertips to keyboard buttons, hold pencils and pens. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

When improvements in typewriters eliminated the problem of jamming, trials in 1932 with an efficiently laid-out keyboard showed that it would let us double our typing speed and reduce our typing effort by 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each one is either behind a keyboard, a drum set, an electric guitar, or a microphone. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But for keyboard instruments, on which the pitches of each step are firmly fixed, these nineteen subdivisions were a nightmare. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sizwe and I took my tower, my giant monitor, and all the cables and the keyboard and the mouse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When I, the keyboard player, read the first note, G, I know I am meant to play the straightforward chord of G: the notes G-B-D. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She sat again and quickly typed something on her keyboard. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I set my fingers on the keyboard, looking at the way they rest there, the nails broad and round. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She placed her hands alongside on the keyboard. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Around the same time that the violin began its conquest of Europe, keyboard technology was also undergoing rapid advancement. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Others prefer scientific pitch notation, which simply labels the octaves with numbers, starting with C1 for the lowest C on a full-sized keyboard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Unlike the faint scurry raised by fingers against a plastic computer keyboard, the smack and clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

An enormous chart of the keyboard diagram was tacked up in front of the room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in front of the monitor with my fingers on the keyboard makes me feel powerful in a way I never have before. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I looked at my hands and centered them according to the two black keys in the middle of the keyboard. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I see Mom at the kitchen table, her empty lunch plate still in front of her, banging her phone keyboard with her thumbs. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.15: The natural notes name the white keys on a keyboard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A guitar44 player, given a piece written in A flat for keyboard, will often prefer to play it in A or G, since the fingerings for chords in those keys are easier. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was far too graceful for Peggy to be at the keyboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rows of letters on the computer keyboard had looked like a toy to him, and he’d reached one finger up and tapped the space bar, over and over again. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it went off the rails somewhere, though, because now Morgan’s putting the keyboard away and Anna’s texting her mom to pick her up. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Dad and I thought you could use a new one. And we found a keyboard with extra large keys for preschoolers. Might be easier to use than our keyboard.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cool Papa Byrd had said, “This is Jack Rabbit Jones on keyboard, Big Mike on bass, and Hector Santos on percussion.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“The guys that play the blues with Cool Papa. The guys who’re usually here. Jack Rabbit Jones on keyboard. Big Mike on bass. Hector Santos on whatever he can hit. The Bluesmen.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The instrument commonly called the "piano" by the way, was originally called a "pianoforte" because it could play dynamics, unlike earlier popular keyboard instruments like the harpsichord and spinet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Her hands went straying around the keyboard, found “Abide With Me,” and played a few lines, real quiet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Why did y’all let me run for president?” she says, tapping too forcefully at her phone’s keyboard in little staccato stabs. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I folded it out and he made play of typing, his index fingers too big and thick for the cramped keyboard. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unmade bed,” Dad repeated, banging on the keyboard again. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For one, there is a second set of “QWERTZU” indicators above the keyboard. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson asked on an impulse, and after a brief pause and the clacking of a keyboard, the woman replied that yes, a Mia Wright had been born in Bethel Park in 1962. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jule watched his hands run over the keyboard and recognized the song. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dad’s brow furrows and the pounding of his fingers on the keyboard becomes downright violent. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I drum my fingers anxiously on the keyboard, and squint at my reflection in the screen while my computer starts up. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After talking through the various options, Vivian—who as far as anyone knows has never so much as nudged awake an electronic keyboard—decides to order the same matte silver thirteen-inch laptop Molly has. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

My fingers hover over the keyboard, and then I search it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And besides, Onofre fancied himself a bit of a whiz at the keyboard, too. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as she saw her mother punching away at her keyboard one night, four different pens stuck in her hair, Candice thought, If the news won’t tell the right stories, I will. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He presses a key, and I hear a mix of keyboard and drums that’s simple but catchy. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She could type on it faster than I could on a regular keyboard. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.32: The key signatures for E flat and D sharp look very different, but would sound the same on a keyboard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Thinking how pretty her hands were, despite they were red from scrubbing floors, I watched her fingers move dreamy up and down the keyboard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I think about my piano lessons, and the keyboard I’m dying to save up for. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Namrata’s fingers still on the keyboard for a moment while she reads something on her screen. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Equal temperament, or the ‘well-tempered’ keyboard, wasn’t perfect, but it was a practical solution to what had hitherto seemed intractable problems. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And then she’s joined by the other instruments—Morgan on the keyboard and Anna on the bass. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I nodded and turned back to the keyboard. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer could zero sit to the right of nine, just as it does on the top of the computer keyboard; zero had a position in the number line that was all its own. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Clearly this was not satisfactory either for keyboard tuners or composers, who were in practical terms restricted to certain keys. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He had slightly stooped shoulders, as if his spine and neck had frozen in place after too much time hunched over a keyboard. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put in a Fela CD and then started to write the e-mail on his computer; his BlackBerry keyboard would cramp his fingers and his mind. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’s six feet tall, about forty, a diagonal scar across his cheek; he sits typing, his hands too big for the keyboard, still wearing his pistol in the shoulder holster. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she relayed the message, her nimble fingers danced across the keyboard as she typed a letter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about that sometimes, about his hands on this keyboard. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She pulls her hands away from the keyboard and shifts. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t so hard,” Thomas muttered, then turned to see Teresa frantically typing away at the keyboard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’ll still get to save up for piano lessons and a keyboard. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I heard a number of sounds layered behind him—drums, a keyboard playing cosmic notes, and something low, like a saxophone. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And on the wall above the keyboard was a picture of a man and woman floating over a city. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

When he stayed with her, Davon often woke up in the middle of the night to find Deborah sleeping at her computer, head down and hands on the keyboard. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Emily took over the keyboard and typed, Do you know what fort, wild, home, rat, open, and belief mean? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But there she stood, typing away on the touchscreen keyboard, and she seemed as energetic as ever. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The screen dimmed and the lights in the keyboard switched off. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A black bean falls out of her mouth and lands on one of her keyboards. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He played the opening notes of that song on the keyboard, and John started bopping his head. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I wasn't going to tear up the paper keyboard I had been practicing on for the last three years, though. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He could quickly locate the keys that he wanted—memory was never a problem with him—but he never learned to build up real speed without first peeking at the keyboard. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Case in point: she’s kneeling on the floor, using the keyboard stool as a desk, and every title on her list is a mediocre classic rock song. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Though it was intended merely as a time-saving tool, its use began to change the way composers and keyboard players manipulated chords, changing the sound of harmony along the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Instead of heading into the usual game, I bring up a hovering keyboard and type in a series of extra commands, my fingers tapping against the floor. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It may also include a piano and/or other keyboard players, more percussionists, and one or more guitar players or other strummed or plucked strings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She stood abruptly, fingers itching for a keyboard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I could picture him singing his heart out, strumming the guitar, with Mr. Bowles rocking out behind him on the keyboards. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Before she can change her mind, she crawls over to her sleeping laptop, propped open on her bed, and taps the keyboard to nudge it awake. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hesitated for a moment over the keyboard—struck by a premonition that this was information I might regret knowing—then typed “Ruby Ridge” into the browser. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The delicate dancing of her fingers on a computer keyboard. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nico opens another box and starts to demonstrate by playing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” using the keyboard, and it sounds exactly like a saxophone. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Music swells and droplets of sweat rain down onto the keyboard as he sits at his laptop, frantically pawing for answers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In two days we were fairly adept at matching the colors on our fingers with the colors on the keyboard diagrams. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average adult would probably have been reduced to slapping the keyboard. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

This is the sort of advice you get from someone who is sitting at a keyboard when he gives it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She tapped at the keyboard, stared at the screen, tapped again. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He closed the keyboard lid, impatiently but without banging it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Slightly unwisely, for this was an idea whose time had not quite yet come, Newlands called it the Law of Octaves and likened the arrangement to the octaves on a piano keyboard. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The centaur’s fingers prodded the keyboard with lightning speed. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I froze, my hands hovering over the keyboard. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I can’t say that it was this sense of guilt, though, that had my fingers itching to hammer my keyboard for some more digging—not exclusively. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I decide to write him an email, thumbing it out on my tiny keyboard. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Jamie looks back at his computer screen, tapping his finger against the edge of the keyboard in time with the music. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maya could hear Grace tapping on a keyboard in the background. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He sits down and types into a keyboard. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Behind them is a glass table with a silver box on it—a computer—and a keyboard. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She slid her notebook next to the keyboard. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The finbacks, for example, emit extremely loud sounds at a frequency of twenty Hertz, down near the lowest octave on the piano keyboard. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another corner are a bass guitar and a keyboard. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“For that matter, your fingerprints are probably on his keyboard.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even though we couldn’t afford a piano, my keyboard was on paper on my dining room table. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His fingertips played slow chords on an invisible keyboard on the bar. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my keyboard, if I press the shift key I cannot then type a lower-case letter. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She typed away on a keyboard, red nails tap-tapping in rapid fire. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With a few taps on his keyboard, my Bureau of Supernatural Affairs webpage pops up onscreen. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Boxy and bulky, with a wide, chunky keyboard. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A man whose face was covered by long hair, and a full and long beard, hunched over the keyboard, pounding away. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They started setting up and I saw that they had six violins, two clarinets, a marching snare, Marjorie on a portable keyboard, and two flutes. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She hunched over and clicked away at the keyboard. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The King’s leitmotif, for example, might be 4 quarter notes played on a trumpet sound on a keyboard, or using an interval of a 5th on any instrument to sound regal and stately. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I thought Dad was going to throw your brand-new keyboard across the room. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her fingers flew from one end of the keyboard to the other. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chris steps out his Chucks and sits at his desk, where a drum pad, a keyboard, and turntables are hooked up to a Mac. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Words transformed with the touch of his fingers on the keyboard. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The dwarf heard the sound of a keyboard being manipulated, and suddenly his right eye zoomed like a camera lens. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ben slips into the chair, taps his keyboard, and a picture magically fills the screen. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Benedict signaled Number Two, whose fingers flew over the computer keyboard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I logged on to a computer, pounded the keyboard for a few moments, and swiveled the screen toward him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Using a piano/keyboard, pitch pipe, or some other melodic instrument, find the correct starting pitch for the range of students in your class. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There was a metal roof fastened over the top of Francie’s machine so that she couldn’t see the keyboard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was to build keyboards with the necessary fidgety subdivisions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He shouldn’t have bothered; the boy was absorbed in his phone again, thumbs and fingers doing a furious dance on the keyboard. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Benji yanked his hands off the keyboard like a thief caught stealing. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emily took over the keyboard and typed, Do you know what fort, wild, home, rat, open, and belief mean? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He turned to his keyboard and tapped a few keys. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Now, of course, I knew it had to be Annette — she was the only unbelievable keyboard prodigy in the building, and I knew that she had this independent-study piano period. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your songwriter has written the solo as it sounds on his keyboard, so you have a C part. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He hurried over to the keyboard and typed in the same sequence of letters he’d watched Jen type so many times. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped up to the keyboard and screen, then started typing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Youth's bass and keyboards appear alongside Gilmour's lap steel and electric guitar, described in a press release as, er, "discernible". New Orb album to feature Pink Floyd's David Gilmour 2010-08-19T11:34:00Z

Then we did scales, up and down the keyboard, as I collapsed back into the rag-doll posture that was supposed to release all of my abdominal tension. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Far more intricately produced than its predecessors, “Integrity Blues” features strings, keyboards, vocal chorales and cascades of strummed acoustic guitar. Two decades in, Jimmy Eat World is still all business 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

I play the keyboards and guitar in a very percussive way. Trixie Whitley throws out the formula 2013-05-02T05:00:00Z

He was always around in the vicinity of the studio doing his dance tracks, so now he helps us with keyboards and programming. dEUS's Tom Barman: 'I was fed up with singing about myself' 2012-07-04T11:41:37Z

Even the harmony, largely implied by a keyboard part hinting at Radiohead, never resolves. SZA’s Songs Face Desire in All Its Complications 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Three anonymous men with keyboards make the sounds at the back. Jay-Z and Kanye West – review 2012-05-26T23:05:46Z

She declaimed “Barbarians” and “Ithaka” in English while layering her electric violin, two keyboards, synths and other electronics over the orchestra and chorus. Reanimating Cavafy, a Poet of ‘Future Generations’ Whose Time Is Now 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

She chose collaborators, references and even specific keyboard sounds that pay homage to club-land memories while making her own 21st-century statement. Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Embodies Decades of Dance Music. Here’s a Guide. 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

With that ensemble in recent years he has certainly had practice conducting concertos from the keyboard. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z

Sorry, Tom, that was my head nodding once more onto the keyboard; this story line just does that to me. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 3 Recap: So Nice to See Him Again? 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Or “by” Shostakovich, whose “Festive Overture” offered a bracing fanfare near the program’s start, followed by neurotic keyboard scramblings? Carpenter energizes Kennedy Center with irreverent organ performance 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

My favorite song on it is "Pretty Baby," a cutesy, minimalist keyboard number with a pensive streak running through it. Music Monday: Sax G, USF, Michael Dean 2011-01-17T17:48:06Z

“My Funny Valentine” became a quasi-symphonic reverie and fantasia spread out over the keyboard in gorgeous displays of color that suggested a peacock fanning its wings. Music Review: A Classicist Who Enjoys Wild Flights of Imagination 2011-06-23T21:58:13Z

The proficiency they display at the keyboard is thrilling to see; whatever your own hobby is, you are likely to be awed by how much better these people are at theirs. | 'They Came to Play': Alex Rotaru Chronicles the Cliburn Amateur Contest 2010-08-13T04:13:00Z

At one point, when he sits alone at his keyboard, men in fatigues cluster around and push the instrument. Review | Movement adds depth to this Broadway musical about 1940s veterans 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

A bench constructed by sculptor Anna Sew Hoy serves the humdrum everyday role of functioning as a place to sit, but it also plays with ideas of labor: it is wallpapered with images of keyboards. At LACE: Daily life made strange through art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

They merged her arrangements for choir, strings, brass and vocals into versions for keyboards. 'Björk Digital': Sonic dreams become virtual reality in downtown L.A. 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

But Yu found that the strategies that worked at the keyboard were useless in high school, where no amount of discipline and focus could make him cool. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

But I was still used to being a person at a chair at a computer in a bedroom," Taylor says, "with another person with a keyboard on their lap, building one track at a time. About Group: Alexis Taylor swaps Hot Chip for jazz improv 2011-03-31T21:29:00Z

Fascinated by rock, funk and soul, he added electric instruments — electric guitars, pianos and keyboards — as well as a driving beat to his music. How Miles Davis electrified jazz 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

Her band was just two men working keyboards, computers and guitars generating — or simply setting off — huge synthetic club beats to pound through her songs, pushing them toward their club remixes. Music Review: Everybody Wants Her, Whoever She May Be 2011-08-03T21:52:51Z

And as if to drive the point home, the veteran pianist and pedagogue Gerald Robbins played that work in an attractive program at Bargemusic on Friday evening, preceded by keyboard suites of Handel. Gerald Robbins Plays Bargemusic’s Masterworks Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

If he found a keyboard with a particular tone to it, he had to add it to his collection. Don Lewis, Unsung Pioneer of Electronic Music, Dies at 81 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

If anybody wants to be playing the guitar, the harmonica, the drums, the bass, the keyboards — well, it’s all there. Jimmy Page reflects on Led Zeppelin’s legacy and its sound 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

The perky-reflective songs are played by a small combo of piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, cello and percussion, so the music can be driving or mellow, depending on the state of romantic confusion. Review | The hippies are back in Shaina Taub’s musical ‘As You Like It’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Their fourth album is modern psychedelia, true to the earlier form, with all the weird, hypnotic, fuzzy guitar sounds and dirgelike keyboards, only really well produced. Review: Black Angels bring on modern psychedelia 2013-04-01T17:55:14Z

Its beat, keyboard lines and vinyl manipulations are all performed live. Gyrating Antidote to Holiday Pounds 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack – You Are My Heaven A classic soul duet, with everything sprinkled in sugar, from the keyboards to the vocals and the lyrics. Readers recommend: songs about uncertainty 2010-10-21T23:01:00Z

The solution, for a time, was moving Bennett to keyboards, an instrument on which, in Tweedy’s words, “he was a little less sure of himself,” and thus a better fit for Tweedy’s wobbly poetry. Behind Wilco’s 2001 Masterpiece, a Band Breaking Its Heart 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

“No!” he shouted, banging his good hand on the keyboard. Modern Love: Do Not Adjust Your Screen or Sound 2013-06-13T19:46:45Z

The last time X performed “Los Angeles” live -- two and a half years ago -- the act brought its producer Ray Manzarek out to play keyboards. X returns to 'Los Angeles' at the Roxy 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

No one looked happy, or relaxed, except Marcos Marchesani, a touring member of the band who plays keyboard and cowbell: apart from him Surfer Blood had the chill of late fall, or even winter. 2010-01-15T04:19:00Z

Other instruments received included a keyboard, trombone, oboe, flute and guitar. Barry Manilow helps Mich. students get instruments 2012-06-20T15:41:15Z

It's a wonder his keyboard gets played or his computer programmed. No 875: Porcelain Raft 2010-09-27T14:48:00Z

Bear produced and orchestrated the album herself, using her computer and an electronic keyboard to create the sound of a full symphony orchestra. TikTok to the Grammys: How a ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Beat Broadway 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

At center stage two large computer monitors showed keyboards and synthesizer modules, digital representations of analog technology. Music Review: Tangerine Dream at Best Buy Theater 2012-07-09T22:24:33Z

The scores, the residencies, the keyboards: They are concessions to age, since she cannot haul what she dubbed “my giant 85-pound sculpture” around the world forever. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Reversed keyboard chords swoop into earshot; a patient beat is built out of static and, eventually, drum-kit sounds. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Sure enough, when their split finally comes, Lloyd Webber mentions in passing that Brightman was apparently having an affair with a keyboard player in the “Phantom” orchestra. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hotheaded Perfectionist 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

It takes a village to perform Handel’s “Messiah”: a nimble and speedy chorus, an accomplished orchestra, four virtuoso soloists, and a keyboard player who is equally adept at the harpsichord and the organ. Hallelujah! Seattle Symphony and Chorale deliver an energetic, nuanced ‘Messiah’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Listen for yourself here: Riley's impact on Townshend could hardly be clearer when you hear Baba O'Riley's keyboard riffs and delays. A guide to Terry Riley's music 2013-01-28T16:06:11Z

I usually write my ballads on the keyboard. Bonnie Raitt Heads to the Grammys, Recognized as a Songwriter at Last 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Forget sleek modernism: this is where shouty vocals collide with stomping beats and great big dollops of rave keyboards. New band of the day – IROK (No 1,387) 2012-11-05T17:54:00Z

The opening of the President’s Piano Series is always a big event for keyboard fans — particularly when local favorite Garrick Ohlsson is back in town. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson, a local favorite, is back in Seattle to open the President’s Piano Series 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Sometimes he pared them down to a lone guitar or keyboard. Sam Smith’s Sold-Out Show at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

One keyboard solo in it bounces so wildly over a tight rhythmic framework that it can't possibly have been notated. Seattle Chamber Players tour Mediterranean in 'Icebreaker' festival 2012-02-15T22:23:04Z

If so, it'd be some futuristic horror movie, filled as it is with throbs of analog synthesizer tones and big, grand keyboard clusters. Essential tracks: John Carpenter's 'Lost Themes' gives off eerie, futuristic sounds 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Lee adds keyboards, guitars and drumbeats, placing the songs in a swirling, spacious digital realm. Rokia Koné, From Mali, Sings for the World. Especially Women. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Assistant conductor and keyboard artist, Washington Bach Consort. From players, pipes and pedals, a celestial song 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

The technology just helps capture and loop the tones of acoustic guitars, keyboards, percussion and voices, whether or not they’re fed through analog distortion gadgets; it’s as amoral as a microphone or an amplifier. Review: In Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool,’ Patient Perfectionism 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

You like keyboards, guitars, loud stuff, quiet stuff. Billy Corgan's mission statement for 'Oceania': Do or die 2012-06-15T15:59:26Z

Two years ago, working in the shared workspace at Philadelphia’s Hive 67, 27-year-old Jack Zylkin turned a manual typewriter that he found on the side of the road into a keyboard for computers and iPads. A typewriter renaissance 2012-06-19T00:00:00Z

Active in the downtown arts scene, she met Mr. Ginsberg, and went on to accompany him on keyboard instruments when he sang and chanted in public. Elodie Lauten, Who Wove Opera From Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry, Dies at 63 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

To earn a living, he turned himself into a keyboard virtuoso of singular fame and attainment—a late embodiment of the heroic Romantic piano lineage beginning with Franz Liszt. ‘Rachmaninoff Plays Symphonic Dances’ Review: A Master Interprets Himself 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

With her bird recordings, she and Splash layered on keyboards, flutes and the bell tones of a Tibetan singing bowl to make “Starlight Ethereal Silence,” the album’s postscript. The Time-Warped Charm of Valerie June 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

When cut and paste required real glue, it was as well to think before writing; and – confronting a keyboard which couldn't tweet, poke or share – you'd half a chance of doing that. In praise of … typewriters 2012-11-20T23:01:48Z

He sits on the bench with his back to the keyboard. | 'Ten Cents a Dance': Music, Memories and Regret 2011-08-15T22:20:09Z

The actor is a versatile musician who has settled on the keyboard with his blues-inspired Copper Bottom Band. Trip Tips: Mozart to Masekela, summer festivals for all tastes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

How can you invent new interesting things with two guitars, a keyboard, bass and drums? Meltdown 2010: Richard Thompson on curating this year's event 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

One fine benefit of his presence here is that you get to hear some dynamite keyboard concerts for a bargain. UW piano prof to perform a bundle of Brahms 2011-02-08T00:50:10Z

Yet Saint-Saëns, who was fascinated by the French Baroque, particularly the keyboard music of Rameau, paid tribute to that period by always keeping the emotions in “Henry VIII” firmly regulated. Music Review: Leon Botstein Conducts ‘Henry VIII’ at Bard Festival 2012-08-20T21:49:34Z

Guitars, strings, keyboards, mellotrons and particularly inventive rhythms move in harmony. New Jason Isbell, old Bernard Fevre resonate on different wavelengths 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

“They laughed when Arianna sat down to the keyboard. Blogs? Celebrities? But she soon proved her doubters wrong, building a formidable media — and political — force,” Jarvis told me. Influential, shrewd and quirky, Arianna Huffington changed the Web 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

New York piano lovers hardly knew what to expect over the weekend from two keyboard lions approaching winter. Emotional Richness in Minor Keys From 2 Revered Pianists 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Pascoal plays Round Midnight on a kettle, turns two squeaky toy pigs into percussion instruments, and howls and grunts along while playing eccentric solos on his keyboard. Hermeto Pascoal – review 2013-07-19T16:17:02Z

Even these precautions aren’t always enough to avoid a broken screen, a busted processor or a cracked keyboard. Perspective | Don’t use your phone in the bathroom — and other ways to keep your devices safe while traveling 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Soda Stereo, a power trio in which Mr. Cerati sang and played guitar and keyboards, was founded in 1982, as the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina was crumbling. Gustavo Cerati, a Star of South America’s Pop Scene, Dies at 55 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

When I’m bent over my keyboard muttering sacred names, it means something quite different. Work Advice: How to handle a boss who puts religion first at the office 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Glass’s 20 etudes represent an autobiography on the keyboard, written over the course of 20 years. Perspective | 81 and going strong, Philip Glass prepares for his Kennedy Center debut 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Debut album Escape works its groove hard, but with contributions on keyboard from Sanae Yamada, these epic and psychedelic workouts acquire a lightness of touch. This week's new live music 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

A track like I'm With You But I'm Lonely builds a bruised prettiness by piling up miniature events: keyboards twitter at one another, while underneath, a toyshop's worth of anxious clockwork rhythms clatter around. Tom Ewing 2010-09-16T20:44:00Z

Throughout, rich disco grooves thaw icy keyboards; choral chants and children's laughter throw light on claustrophobic textures worthy of PiL. KXP: II – review 2013-02-07T22:00:01Z

The tangled guitar line that opens "Power Drunk," courtesy of Mike Campbell, mixes with keyboard player Benmont Tench's organ chords on a song about the intoxicating allure of power. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Sitting beside him at his Fender Rhodes keyboard, Mr. Lynch began talking. Angelo Badalamenti, Composer for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Is Dead at 85 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Unlike “Dear Heather,” an underproduced album full of dinky-sounding keyboard, “Old Ideas” features acoustic instruments: violin, slide guitar, trumpet, lightly brushed drums. Arts & Leisure: Leonard Cohen Reckons With God in ?Old Ideas? 2012-01-27T16:00:00Z

I’m on an Indiegogo waiting list for a keyboard thing called a Traveler that has no internet but only connects to a cloud. Lauren Graham’s Week: Background Binges and Books, Books, Books 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The twinkly keyboards and sheer sugar rush of a chorus make it probably Magic Kids' best track. New band of the day ? No 813: Magic Kids 2010-06-22T15:05:00Z

The trio performed a nearly hour-long improvisation whose wordless vocalese was accompanied primarily by violin and percussion, supplemented sparingly by keyboards and electronics. Review | Throat singer Tanya Tagaq is both earthy and ethereal in Kennedy Center performance 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

The style is symphonic rock or chamber pop — strings, drums, keyboard, woodwinds and more that twine together in a sound that is undulating and lush. Review: ‘The Good Swimmer’ Stays Out of the Deep End 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The new solo show by veteran performance artist Laurie Anderson opens with note-bending sea surges of sound from her electronically enhanced violin and keyboard sampler. Laurie Anderson's 'Dirtday!' digressed, but the audience dug it 2012-10-21T20:12:04Z

Swapping between keyboards and acoustic guitars, and sharing harmonies, the pair, backed by bass and drums, often play to one another. Angus & Julia Stone 2010-04-27T21:35:00Z

But after the percussionist comes in — offering a steady syncopation with the keyboard — the vibe of New York’s late 1990s underground hip-hop rears its head. An Artist Embodies an Approach to Music Without Borders 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

The thick keyboards are on a setting reminiscent of Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright, and the guitar licks that come in after are reminiscent of David Gilmour’s distortion effects. Why Doctor Strange shares its psychedelic DNA with Pink Floyd 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

If I'm in a space with someone and a keyboard and computer and piano, it's hard for me to hold back. BBC Sound of 2014: Sampha 2014-01-07T07:50:26Z

“It sounded funny at first — it was just him and his keyboard,” Sonny Digital said. ILoveMakonnen Is Big Online and Almost Famous 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

He was still in high school when he started his first musical group, the Church of God in Christ Singers, which included Billy Preston, who later played keyboards behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Andraé Crouch, 72, Who Infused Gospel With Soul, Dies 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

As one of the preeminent Mozarteans of his generation, he knows how to conduct from the keyboard. A surprising L.A. Chamber Orchestra concert features two Wolfgangs' music — and a rare clarinet 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Ohlsson, who is famous for his distinctively lush, powerful sonority as well as the subtleties he coaxes from the keyboard, says that he greatly enjoyed rehearsing with the young Chinese musicians. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson, a local favorite, is back in Seattle to open the President’s Piano Series 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Using mostly acoustic guitar, accented by percussion, bass and occasional sprinklings of keyboards, he has refashioned most of the material as neo-folk songs with bare bones and blurred edges. Theater Review: ‘What’s It All About?’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-12-06T03:00:11Z

From the start, liquidity was a keyboard ideal, and an ocean of music evoking water has been written over the centuries for harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano and modern grand. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

The two keys are spaced fairly far apart on mobile devices with a more crowded keyboard layout, so they’re easier to smash back and forth with each thumb. 3 internet language trends from 2019, explained 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Chief among these is the "pianocktail," a machine that mixes drinks in a manner dictated by what is played on a piano keyboard. Michel Gondry's 'Mood Indigo' is wildly inventive 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

So please: before you put jabber to keyboard, work out if you can afford to compromise the movement’s security in this way. Is Kim Kardashian pregnant, or is it all just another celebrity conspiracy? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Then the band reconfigured itself with keyboards and drums for newer songs like “Blackout.” Music Review: Unafraid of Altering a Winning Formula 2011-02-06T22:43:51Z

For the most part, Green has fulfilled Peterson's hopes for him, in that Green exemplifies the sleek, seemingly effortless keyboard prowess that was at the center of Peterson's pianism. From Mahalia tribute to Penn & Teller's pianist, a rich weekend in Chicago jazz 2011-05-19T11:40:00Z

When younger people do compose emails, it tends to be on a tiny keyboard, with error-prone autocorrect, lowering literary standards. A Eulogy for the Long, Intimate Email 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Anyway, my toddlers and I are not to be confined by such retrograde ideas of what it means to be male, so I gave them the gender-neutral gift of a keyboard. Let’s drop the gender stereotypes – we are all non-binary 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

If you use yours regularly, by strumming guitar strings, for instance, or typing on a keyboard, the skin will harden to protect them. Design: Freeing Form From Function 2010-11-21T17:00:00Z

On Sam Smith’s pining ballad of infidelity, “Not the Only One,” underpinned with Fender Rhodes keyboard and silvery backup vocals, Gazarek falls off notes with a sigh. Vocalist Sara Gazarek returns to Seattle, debuting new material at Jazz Alley 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

I consumed Mr. Aimard’s recital, which was presented by the Gilmore, an eminent keyboard festival based in Kalamazoo, Mich., as a series of episodes, as fragments rather than a cohesive entity. Listening to Beethoven, While Walking the Dog and Dodging Cars 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

During the moments when the piano trades thick, pummeling, fortissimo chords with the full orchestra, Mr. Lewis threw all his weight into the keyboard, lifting himself off the bench with each thrust of his hands. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z

Here all he had to do was mimic the opening keyboard riff from “Feelin’ on Yo Booty” to get his fans to take over for him. R. Kelly preaches to the choir at the Saban Theatre 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Lead the Way is discombobulated disco, like Pavement meets Parliament, all nagging keyboard lines over awkward time signatures. New band of the day: Naytronix (No 1,363) 2012-10-02T16:23:25Z

Society took to its keyboards to ponder what kind of lesson the now-underweight teacher from Minnesota had given us. Who’s really losing on ‘The Biggest Loser’? 2014-02-19T22:08:55Z

Nothing is done for effect or to draw attention to the player rather than to what he is playing; though his range of touch and keyboard colour is consummately wide, it is never used cosmetically. Beethoven: Eroica Variations; Haydn: Variations in F minor; Schumann: Symphonic Studies – review 2013-04-03T14:50:38Z

Every backbeat, vocal harmony, keyboard countermelody and instrumental bridge is in place. Kanye West Dips a Toe in the Moment, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

He spoke to the audience about the heritage of the Baroque keyboard suite, then played his own reinvented one, which lasted nearly an hour. Review: ‘The public domain’ Beats the Heat and Humidity 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

The piece is a study in right-hand arpeggios, which race up and down the keyboard as the left hand adds a grounding bass line in octaves. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

But that house was in Malibu, and Parker said he had spent just one night recording there, drinking, smoking pot and laying down the foundation of a song on guitars, keyboards and simulated drums. Tame Impala Makes Music for Loners. But Now Kevin Parker Plays the World’s Biggest Stages. 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Using a Replenish is irritatingly tricky thanks to the cramped keyboard and fiddly operating system. Design: Good-Looking and Responsible Design 2011-08-05T17:30:07Z

Dunckel played a bank of keyboards, positioned in front of a second keyboardist. The musical duo Air performs something kinda sorta like a rock concert 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Here, when Tchaikovsky allowed, he exploded, forcefully throwing his full weight onto the keyboard, seemingly oblivious to the Valley's seismic vulnerability. Review: All-star piano trio leaves listeners with a royal flush 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Tonight the single sounds way better than on record, with carnivorous bass and growling keyboards. Scissor Sisters; Gossip ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:04Z

The bizarre and gorgeous sounds of their voices, combining rhythmically over rocking keyboard phrases, are sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes bore-into-the-skull repetitive. Dance Review: Multitasker Reverses the Aging Process 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z

There was one stretch of a darker mood: “Maze,” conjuring the lyrics’ paranoia with a modal, insistent bass line and radar-blip keyboards before making its way to its own major-key redemption. Music Review: Phish at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-12-31T00:27:32Z

Harvey and Pope's mirroring keyboards swirled above and around the Moore audience's heads, sucking inward with flange effect, panning left and right and echoing with dub effects. Concert review: Spoon at the Moore 04/10/10 2010-04-11T01:54:00Z

Candles lit the streets of Ballybricken late on Monday, as her coffin was brought to the church where McNamara said she once sang and played keyboard in the local choir. Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan laid to rest in home town 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Credits on Free albums tend to be sketchy, but that may be Fraser, who also played keyboards, clinching the dirge with sorrowful sheets of sound from a mellotron. Andy Fraser: A bassist whose rumbling sound allowed Free to soar 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

I get down to the keyboard at 6:30 a.m. or so and work through the morning. A Q&A with author Ivan Doig, whose latest novel is 'Work Song' 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z

Bach’s Goldberg Variations, long considered the quintessential masterpiece for keyboard. Irish pianist John O’Conor continues to show he’s a master of Beethoven 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

In the prison church, I had taken measurements of the keyboard, and I cut a piece from the cardboard box. My Prison Cell: Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Sitting astride her piano bench, Amos alternated between a grand piano and an electric keyboard, playing rumbling, percussive bass chords and spiraling right-hand arpeggios that traversed up and down octaves. Tori Amos at Chicago Theatre 2011-12-11T13:40:00Z

Where the arrangements solidify, they often use Pink Floyd’s techniques, including delayed-action drumbeats and gleaming keyboard tones that chime in while a power chord reverberates. | The Antlers: Strumming Off This Mortal Coil 2009-12-17T05:48:00Z

Rock records are almost impossible to make sound like that, because there are guitars and keyboards and all that stuff that always end in the middle, and you have to fight for space. Music: A Little Nudge, and a Soul Singer Is Back to Her Roots 2010-09-19T04:35:00Z

“Capture/Release,” a premiere by Daniel Wohl for strings, percussion and electronic keyboard, suggested the expanding and then overlapping waves after a pebble is dropped into a circular pool. Dance Review: ‘Capture/Release’ Uses Lar Lubovitch Dancers 2013-06-26T21:49:30Z

But until the mid-20th century, most began as opera house “répétiteurs”: coaches who teach singers their roles at the keyboard and play for rehearsals. Antonio Pappano, a Conductor of the Old School, Makes His Carnegie Debut 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

She had them going up and the down the keyboards merrily deconstructing jazz, Minimalist patterns and much else. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla takes the lead in an inspired women's night with the L.A. Phil 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

His quintet uses the studio as an instrument; guitars and keyboards don’t sound quite like themselves, but more like alien creations that cough, sputter, purr and disintegrate before our ears. Album review: thenewno2, 'thefearofmissingout' 2012-07-30T16:36:00Z

“Locked Down,” with its down-cold James Black drum rhythms, distorted Fender Rhodes keyboards and free-range, organically farmed reverb, is a useful test case. Spring Performance: Music: Dr. John Plays Three Weekends at BAM 2012-02-24T20:50:19Z

Go-go was heavy on percussion with drummers as lead players, accented by guitar riffs, keyboards and horns. Chuck Brown, Pioneer of 'Go-Go' Funk Music, Dies 2012-05-17T00:30:11Z

Maybe it's the elegance of his keyboard tone and the shimmer of his ensemble sound that welcomes listeners into a music that otherwise sabotages audience expectation. Ahmad Jamal is still surprising at 84 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

The title track ends with them cheerfully chanting "we are furniture" over a neon keyboard melody: they sound celebratory, yet the song mourns the humdrum existence of a couple who have fallen out of love. Race Horses: Furniture – review 2012-11-29T21:00:01Z

It arrives near the end, when she describes seeing old keyboards and stage props floating, ruined. Music Review: Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet at Montclair State 2013-05-12T21:34:28Z

Even as I’m writing this essay, I have to stop myself from scrolling back to previous parts and banging my forehead against the keyboard as I see how short I’ve fallen of my expectations. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z

“This is a waltz/Thinking about our bodies/What they mean/for our salvation,” Yorke crooned while playing the keyboard. Perspective | Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke dances like no one’s watching — and it’s a beauty to behold 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

She taps on an imaginary keyboard and turns her head to one side. Olivia Colman in Rev 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

In repeated passages, he would play a thumping low octave with his left hand, then sweep up the keyboard in a burst of dizzying arpeggios, landing on a crackling high note. Review: Murray Perahia at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

To the casual observer, three musicians who made it – now joined by Gillian Gilbert on keyboards – were still under the shadow of what happened three years before. Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order 2011-08-08T13:38:25Z

The instrumental combo, conducted by the music director Emily Senturia, includes a fiddle, guitars, keyboards and drums, but the style is mainstream Broadway. Review: ‘Das Barbecü’ Is Wagner’s ‘Ring’ With a Side of Brisket 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Where other writers get repetitive strain syndrome from pounding at their keyboards all day, Martel suffers from repetitive allegory syndrome. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The music evokes a boat atop rolling ocean waves through rippling piano arpeggios that build and crest across the entire keyboard. | Martina Filjak: Birthday Gift: New York Debut 2009-12-17T05:42:00Z

At least five other states have considered—or are still considering—similar bills this year, all attempts to defy the oft-heralded “death of handwriting” wrought by the almighty keyboard. Five reasons kids should still learn cursive handwriting 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

The lack of a keyboard wasn't an issue. Why the iPad and its mark a new stage in computing 2011-03-27T00:05:21Z

But the music was a revelation: two great piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven, and a stellar piano soloist who also proved a nimble conductor from the keyboard. Seattle Symphony welcomes an audience back to Benaroya Hall for the first time in 14 months 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

The son of an evangelical minister, Mr. Norman played keyboards in worship bands in his teens and the viola in a youth orchestra. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

But he didn’t appreciate how difficult it would be to write one until his hands were on the keyboard. How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Rom-Com? Three Comedians Try. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

On the keyboard of the rhetorizor he vigorously, with deliberation, punched two new semantic units. Philip K. Dick predicted ChatGPT and its grim ramifications 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

After going through five keyboards, I made a heavy-duty keyboard by tripling the materials. My Prison Cell: Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Even so Robson’s unflashy yet monumental technique found unsuspected colors in shades of gray, and simply watching his hands overwhelm the keyboard proved, in itself, enlivening. With a magnificent Piano Spheres recital, Mark Robson resonates in the new year 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

As a musician, he played drums before switching to keyboard. Rod Temperton, songwriter of Michael Jackson smash ‘Thriller,’ dies 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Then some turntable scratching ushers in a shift toward the synthetic: pulsing keyboard parts, voices chopped into samples, the guitar suddenly distorted and stuttering. Sonic Tomfoolery and Rhythmic Savvy From Systema Solar 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Anchored by Allman's rhythmic keyboards and whiskey-tinged voice, the band found some success on radio, but its reputation was forged through a barnstorming tour schedule and epic live concerts. Gregg Allman 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

With his band the Africa 70, this Afrobeat pioneer rolled out monster-size grooves, chugging along with soulful beats, keyboards and horns. ‘Finding Fela,’ From Alex Gibney 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Neville riffled through the Mardi Gras mambo of Professor Longhair’s “Big Chief,” and an unannounced guest, Jonathan Batiste, splayed chords across the keyboard in “Saints.” The Night New Orleans Came to Brooklyn 2010-12-05T23:06:00Z

Her years onstage playing guitar, keyboards and percussion certainly taught her how to ground herself amid the chaos of a film set. Alana Haim Surprised Everyone With Her Movie Debut. Even Herself. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

He still dabbles and his girlfriend plays keyboards with La Roux. Jim Sturgess: a thoroughly polished survivor 2010-12-23T22:00:04Z

"At the end it was a battle between me, the keyboard and my imagination." 'Shell Shock' opera brings trauma of World War One to stage 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The MPC, made by Akai, isn’t played with a keyboard, but instead features a square grid of pads that trigger different sounds, and it has become a widespread compositional and performance tool. Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Embodies Decades of Dance Music. Here’s a Guide. 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

There is also evidence that his stay and a performance of Messiah in the abbey – with Rauzzini on keyboard – influenced him in composing his masterpiece, The Creation. Bath celebrates the life of the bedhopping singing star of the 1700s 2010-04-12T06:00:00Z

Typically, the devices consist of special keyboards equipped with voice output software that turn typed words into spoken ones. For those with autism, documentary offers new hope 2011-03-27T18:01:04Z

Despite being in danger of drowning the listener in sugar, Heath is always at hand with an angular beat or a keyboard bloop to make sure things are never too saccharine. New band of the day – Child Actor (No 1,358) 2012-09-25T16:50:00Z

That Bach’s keyboard music is so texturally exposed presents a difficult yet irresistible challenge, he said. A Pianist’s Warsaw: ‘Fascination and Pain’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The twist: the music — Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier,” a collection of solo keyboard music — is joined by the Flying Steps, an award-winning break-dancing troupe. In Berlin, Break Dancing to Bach 2010-04-22T10:00:00Z

The next day, I packed up my desk at work: the computer, the mouse, the keyboard. A Season of Grief and Release: 5 Months of the Virus in New York City 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lau taps at her keyboard three to fours hours a day, then weaves among shops, design studios and art exhibitions, or reports first-hand on events like the Lanvin-H & M fashion show in New York. An Eye for Detail, and Plenty of Pop 2010-12-09T00:09:00Z

But his phrasing was fascinating: He approached these pieces as if they were Romantic keyboard classics. Review | Glass ceilings: A composer’s études lead to a late debut 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

I respond to many sounds in this way: hair being cut; fountain pen on paper; the tapping of a keyboard. The sounds of sports are music to my ears | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

But they are very distinct projects; Ms. Perry composes much of the music for Handsome Furs, and “Sound Kapital,” unlike the duo’s two previous albums, was written entirely on keyboards, playing down guitar. Music Review: Dark but Danceable Visions of a Chilly Technological Future 2011-08-21T22:18:08Z

Rick Savage is singing harmony, playing bass, guitar, keyboards, samples…. Def Leppard’s Phil Collen: We had more in common with Duran Duran than Iron Maiden 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

His keyboard touch ranges from stiletto sharp to gossamer soft. Sheppard tackles Schubert at Meany on May 5 2010-05-04T20:23:00Z

Mr. Tweedy plays most of the guitars and keyboards on the album; his son Spencer Tweedy plays drums. New Music: Mavis Staples and Andy Bey Release New Albums 2013-06-24T22:22:10Z

Backed by a guitarist in a balaclava, he briefly toyed with a keyboard on “Perfect Time.” Review | Fresh off a Grammy win and still No. 1 on the charts, Roddy Ricch rides high at 9:30 Club 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Still, most of his music is built from just a keyboard lick, a beat and vocal lines; he demonstrates how he assembles his tracks in a series of playful YouTube videos he calls “lessons.” Stromae Is a Voice Out of Belgium 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

During its brief set, songs hinted at lurching roots-rock, Talking Heads’ new wave funk, the keyboard filigree of progressive rock and the slow roll of a soul ballad. ArtsBeat: A Range of Styles in 3 Performances 2011-03-19T21:31:31Z

To keep the keyboard and mouse working I had to keep unplugging and re-plugging them. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: R.I.P., dear friend. Like me, you were old and out of it, but you stubbornly soldiered on. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Sprays of guitar emerge briefly, like thumbs in your eye; analog keyboards, run through various filters, shimmer and vibrate; delay loops synchronize with drum beats. New Music: Music From Yeasayer, Tamia, Lionel Loueke and Divine Fits 2012-08-27T21:53:22Z

The piano as an instrument was not much more than a gleam in a builder's eye when Bach died, but the word "clavier" encompasses all the keyboard instruments. Bach in the hands of a master: András Schiff in Seattle 2012-10-16T15:20:05Z

Bridging the two keyboard concertos with Stravinsky's orchestral Concerto in D was an inspired choice, revealing the influences of Bach and Mozart on the later composer's brand of neoclassicism. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt ? review 2011-04-05T17:45:01Z

With his sulky matinee-idol looks and intense platform manner, Fray certainly looks the part: bent low over the keyboard as if intent on drawing something personal and highly wrought from the instrument. David Fray ? review 2011-07-21T14:31:23Z

When the story resumes, "Ric" is tapping his computer's keyboard with wild satisfaction. "The Sandman" retrofits an old story into a cautionary fable about opportunistic "male feminists" 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

You may be wondering why a keyboard symbol should be lauded as a design coup. Design: Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem 2010-03-21T15:52:00Z

Unabashedly a throwback in notion and execution, this new disc comprises six modern-day ghost stories, swaddled in rich, harmonically sophisticated arrangements and adorned with woodwinds and vintage keyboards. Music Review: Steven Wilson at the Best Buy Theater 2013-04-28T21:00:18Z

The wonderfully witty Emi — ”Pickled herring,” she allowed at one point, “is the Gatorade of the North” — was busily pecking away at the keyboard of her silver MacBook Air when we arrived. Stockholm, and the Strangers Who Brought Me There 2012-06-15T18:37:54Z

On our night, it had a silver-haired jazz guitarist and a teenage keyboard player. Just an hour from the busy Bay Area, a laid-back retreat to soothe the soul 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

At one astonishing point, he draped a blanket over the strings and fingered it like a keyboard. Review | The Fred Frith Trio is actually a 5-way improvisation at Rhizome 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

So, rightly or wrongly, I was getting into brass sections and female vocals and keyboards and trying to expand our sound. Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton on Town Called Malice 2012-11-12T17:33:06Z

Mr. Sweeney, also a sometime D.J., used to play keyboards and guitar in the short-lived band Actress, and owns the quintessentially hip nightclub Santos Party House on the edge of Chinatown. Possessed: A Turquoise Link to Willie Nelson 2010-12-17T23:39:13Z

A couple of musicians backed the core group on guitar and keyboards, but Buckingham was ferocious and tireless as lead guitarist. Review: Fleetwood Mac at the United Center 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

He transferred this pattern to the keyboard, implying that the crowd was to follow his lead. Music Review: Chucho Vald?s Plays With the Afro-Cuban Messengers 2012-01-24T23:07:41Z

Mr. Stack plays drums and keyboards, fleshing out some of the songs but leaving others brittle and stark. The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4 2010-08-26T15:25:00Z

With partners like Nadia Washington on vocals and Aaron Parks on piano and keyboards, she played songs in response to police brutality and anti-gay social norms, among other things. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon With Protest at Its Heart 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Keys N Krates — a trio on drums, keyboards and turntables — created a real-time equivalent of a hip-hop production, with deep, unhurried, slow-grind beats. The Hudson Project, Cut Short by a (Real) Tempest 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Hunched over their devices, they pecked away at the keyboards and waited for the words to be converted into sound by voice output software. For those with autism, documentary offers new hope 2011-03-27T18:01:04Z

Mr. Kahane discussed another issue: the practice of leading a Mozart symphony from the keyboard. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z

Handy Award, for keyboard playing for 11 straight years and the prize for traditional blues man in 2004. Blues musician "Pinetop" Perkins dies at 97 2011-03-21T23:51:00Z

Markus’s office was airy and orderly, with a keyboard and acoustic guitar at easy reach from his desk. In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Its crumbling brick chimney stretches into the cloudless sky, seagulls circle above the ocean and a busker with a keyboard is playing a tune reminiscent of the old amusement rides. Greetings from a new-look Asbury Park 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z

But if the mark is to retain its impact, we might do well to give it a rest and find other ways to convey our sincerity and amiability through the keyboard. Your Guide to Not Using So Many Exclamation Points 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Aniello tucks “We Take Care of our Own” inside layers of keyboards and a guitar riff that echoes the Searchers’ “Needles and Pins” and New Order’s “Love Vigilantes.” Springsteen: new album, tour, possible Chicago date 2012-01-19T19:08:00Z

It's as if by performing these works on a very different instrument from the usual modern concert grand she's discovering a new range of possibilities, a new palette of keyboard colours. Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 – review 2013-05-01T15:40:38Z

Hilariously, this august figure now prods keyboards, beefing up Yeah Yeah Yeahs' disco numbers. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – review 2013-07-20T23:07:01Z

Yet while the lyrics are absolutely central — Mr. Cohen simply recited one song, “A Thousand Kisses Deep,” over sustained keyboard chords — they would not sustain a three-hour concert without musical variety. Music Review: Leonard Cohen at the Barclays Center 2012-12-22T00:28:21Z

Aiden Concepcion stopped dancing to play a snippet of Einaudi’s score live on a keyboard at the front of the stage. Review: Kids Dance Puts on a Show of Courage, Discipline and Heart 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

At the Athens Conservatory, he trained as a keyboard virtuoso of firebrand talents and as a composer of Romantic tastes. A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

"It’s like milk/Made for humans," he sang a while he also played a keyboard in an open oat field. Oatly’s Super Bowl commercial shirt for haters goes out of stock in less than 24 hours 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

The ballade opened with a forceful line that began in the low register of the piano and rose up the keyboard in octaves, as if making some grim declaration. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z

Hot Chip defies the programmed, gleaming, pumped-up artificiality of current dance music by featuring hand-played keyboards, guitars and drums from its touring musicians. Review: Hot Chip’s ‘Why Make Sense?,’ Rooted in Dance Music’s Past but of the Now 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

In that film, in a scene of trivializing vulgarity, Spielberg joins a scene of S.S. officers’ murderous raid of an apartment building’s Jewish residents to a performance of a Bach keyboard work. Review: Lars Von Trier’s Empty, Repugnant Provocations “The House That Jack Built” 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

On "Sucker," set for release Dec. 15, Charli XCX thrashes through 13 songs full of razor-sharp keyboard licks and snotty attitude. Rising recording star Charli XCX brings her 'pop circus' to town 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

In large part her post-techno beats were preprogrammed, and she played the keyboard up against them, though the effect was that of water against a stone, a light tickle at best. Music Review: Keyboard Speaks Louder Than a Microphone 2011-06-20T21:56:23Z

A duck and other dogs, gesturing with fake paws to actual audio footage of Supreme Court arguments, are cast as lawyers, while a hen pecks away at a court stenographer's keyboard. Millions view talking dogs online spoof of U.S. Supreme Court 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The middle allegretto movement, with its "walking bass line" on the keyboard, is an even more elegant treat. Icicle Creek Piano Trio gives free CD-release concert at Town Hall 2011-03-03T20:37:03Z

The instrumental writing for percussion, winds, keyboards, violin and horn feels more familiar, a mingling of Feldmanesque stasis and Reichian pulses. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The song starts as choppy, programmed, trap-flavored R&B, but segues into fusion rock with overdriven keyboards and distorted lead guitar. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

We can't decide whether it's a minute too long or three minutes too short: it starts off all about the riff, then it becomes a showcase for guitar and keyboard solos. New band of the day - Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs (No 1,407) 2012-11-30T14:12:00Z

McCartney helped write the song, and he also played keyboard as well. Rihanna Releases New Song Featuring Paul McCartney And Kanye West 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Sandberg-Diment also nitpicked other aspects of the Mac’s hardware: the keyboard didn’t include a number pad, and the screen was black-and-white. What reviewers said about the first Mac when it debuted 30 years ago 2014-01-25T18:00:00Z

She chose what she chose, adding the tonalities and resonances of strings, chimes, water sounds, keyboard effects and layered voices to create its singular sound palette. Perspective | Alice Coltrane is finally heralded as a jazz great. A new reissue doesn’t do her justice. 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

“He desperately wanted to see combat,” Redmond said, but his father’s keyboard skills made him an invaluable typist to higher-ups in the Army Air Forces. D.C. actor has personal connection to ‘All the Way’ — his father worked for LBJ 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Sweet: Jangly tambourine, and singer Alex Robert's exuberant yelps, punctuating gospel keyboard licks. It's a rock picnic as KEXP Concerts at the Mural series opens 2011-08-06T17:43:57Z

Ikey Owens was an astounding keyboard player in Jack White's backing band. Isaiah 'Ikey' Owens dies at 38: keyboardist for Jack White, others 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

On this release, Michael Sheppard excels in the keyboard’s avant-jazz-influenced clusters in the second movement; Grim’s flute playing steers some of that energy into starkly pressurized notes that also have the quality of swing. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

Here rests the heart of Frederick Chopin — a sad, but deeply poetic denouement for a man who was truly one of the great poets of the keyboard. In Warsaw, With Chopin as Muse 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Maraldo was still drumming, and it seemed like the night might move into a second phase: Was there a keyboard hiding down there? 2010-02-06T05:47:00Z

“Same Old Story,” with wavering, unstable keyboard chords and eerie sustained strings, is a tender accusation: “Promising we’ll stay together/ Down in your heart, you know better.” John Legend: Love Songs That Bow to Dark Shadows 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

These new gallery paintings, like the murals, are depictions of women in Afghan clothing, with a guitar or keyboard, surrounded by Dari text. Afghan woman risks all to bring color to war-torn Kabul with her street art and feminist murals 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

Distorted guitar riffs were a staple, but the best songs of the evening — the ominous “My Song No. 5” and hip-shaker “The Wire” — were propelled primarily by keyboard riffs and layered percussion. Haim causes sonic explosion at Paramount | Concert review 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

There were assorted guitars, keyboards and effects pedals for Mr. Droste and Mr. Rossen; basses and reed instruments for Christopher Taylor; and trap drums, percussion and sampler for Christopher Bear. Grizzly Bear Takes a New Approach on Its Album ‘Shield’ 2012-09-16T07:23:03Z

Adapting the technique to the piano, Guerrero taught his students to hold one hand in a relaxed position on the keyboard, lightly touching the keys. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

But now he’s started to sing and play more keyboard, and he’s got some talent at both. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-07T23:20:47Z

Conducting energetically from the keyboard – not good for the spine, one couldn't help thinking – she got the orchestra playing with a crisp incisiveness that ideally complemented her own playing. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt – review 2013-01-17T17:48:32Z

Mr. Duke has seized the chance to dust off an arsenal of keyboards — Minimoog Voyagers, Fender Rhodes and clavinets — in the service of his vintage ideal. Critics? Choice: CDs by Blake Shelton, Mike Posner, George Duke 2010-08-08T22:33:00Z

Adept not just as a singer, guitarist, keyboard player and dancer, he was also virtually unmatched in his ability to destabilize people both privately and publicly. Prince Is Mourned by Fashion World, Which Counted Him as One of Its Own 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

To browse the internet, keyboards are available by request. An Eccentric Hollywood Hotel for the Fun at Heart 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Some props and images reflected those used in earlier productions, like the rotary phone placed on a table in “The Park” and the shots of Mr. Villafranca’s hands moving over his red keyboard. Opera Review: ‘Vidas Perfectas,’ Spanish Version of a Robert Ashley Opera 2014-04-18T21:56:09Z

He also takes an omnivorous approach to the keyboard repertory, and his interpretive imagination is so flexible that he seems completely at home in just about everything he touches. Music Review: Rationality Meeting Romanticism 2011-05-12T21:30:23Z

Reid, his schoolboy haircut teamed with checked shirt and jeans, busies himself with his keyboard, while Francis shimmers in mirrored sunglasses and sports lux – cropped white top, low, baggy trousers – her midriff writhing. AlunaGeorge – review 2013-02-20T15:15:00Z

Even with the keyboard parts largely absent, such Skull songs as “In a Perfect World” and “Debbie’s Headache” — a new number and a retooled ’80s one, respectively — sounded almost lyrical. Review | At Rhizome, Live Skull and Thalia Zedek provide echoes of ’80s post-punk 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

With its vibrating strings, pastel-soft keyboards, bits of electronic feedback and keening, slowly shifting vocals, a Mazzoli composition is swiftly recognizable. Music Review: Gotham Chamber Opera at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-05-23T21:54:56Z

Fred had this amazing ability to improvise in rhyme and meter the same way I do at the keyboard. Tonys 2015: Composer John Kander 'channels' his late partner, lyricist Fred Ebb 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, shaming people for enjoying the glitzy spectacle of cultural events like the Met Gala isn't the political action or bold act of resistance that keyboard activists seem to think it is. From AOC to Cara Delevingne, are the Met Gala’s feminist displays meaningful or just performative? 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

The more delicate approach at the keyboard in turn created the program’s most delightful ensemble playing, in the lyrical slow movement especially. Review | Czech piano trio makes Washington debut 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

Somehow his fingers on the keyboard stir his thought processes and — in a Eureka moment — he sees the true meaning of the crime and how it was committed. Looking for a mystery to cozy up with? Michael Dirda has some suggestions. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Chords are played much in the traditional way of a keyboard, by pressing multiple keys. Listen to Five of the World’s Newest, Wildest Instruments 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

A new keyboard has been cannibalized from another 1877 piano that probably sat on the 19th-century loading dock with the future Motown instrument. Antiques: Motown Piano Restored - Postcard Books - Film on Lynd Ward 2012-03-22T20:50:46Z

An ordinary Saturday at the Harlem School of the Arts finds children in black tights learning dance moves, pecking away at keyboards or torturing clay into intricate shapes. Yvette L. Campbell, New President of Harlem School of the Arts 2011-12-05T23:59:59Z

Then she turned to her keyboard player, said, “Hit it, honey,” and got on with the show. Provincetown: Go for the Mask Compliance, Stay for a Show 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Opening as a lovely lullaby, it deepened into emotional turmoil without losing its lyrical core — a winsome singing line turned dark in the left hand while the right hand scaled up and down the keyboard.  A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

His was a “loving” approach to the piano, he told Pianist magazine in 2016, one that tried “to get the sound out of the keyboard, rather than into it.” Lars Vogt, Acclaimed Pianist and Conductor, Is Dead at 51 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle is highly interactive, with visitors putting their paws all over touch screens, headphones, keyboards and Xbox controllers. Cultural institutions reopen with a more hands-off approach 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

He shifted occasionally from the laptop to an array of keyboards and a turntable, creating textures and percussion from sampled records. Music: Nicolas Jaar, Electronic Musician and Student at Brown 2012-03-09T17:00:00Z

And in the 21st century, she dispensed with studio musicians; she now plays all the keyboards, electronics and guitars, and she programs the drumming. Joan Armatrading Is Still Searching for the Perfect Song 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Strokes of a keyboard in place of that extra shot to loosen you up. Young users are logging onto new online dating sites 2011-10-31T15:33:03Z

At almost any other point in time, there might not have been a willing audience for Glenn-Copeland’s singular, deeply sincere keyboard music, conveyed by that resonant, calming voice. Don’t despair: Beverly Glenn-Copeland actually has hope to offer us in 2020 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Greenspoon was not one of them, but his keyboards were an integral part of the band’s sound. Jimmy Greenspoon, Keyboardist for Three Dog Night, Dies at 67 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

I had been a fast typist when I could see the keyboard, but learning how to type with fingers on the home keys wouldn't happen until the following summer. Pseudonym: On vision loss and hiding in plain sight from my high school classmates 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

He currently writes on an industrial-strength keyboard made of metal, properly meant for use in foundries and conflict zones. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z

The grandeur and power of this concerto were fully realized, yet Bronfman also drew back for lyrical, sensitive playing: delicate, quicksilver arpeggios, as well as keyboard thunder and lightning. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

To borrow a line from Beyoncé herself: Feminists, self-proclaimed or crowned, keep her “name rolling off the tongue,” or rather, the keyboard. bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Copy and paste command on an Apple computer keyboard. Poster poems: Licence to steal 2013-02-08T11:22:08Z

But playing music and touching the keyboard — that’s the only thing I can do to solve my own pain and to solve other people’s pain. A Russian Pianist Speaks Out Against the War From Home 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Each sound — the plucking of a violin, the rapid keyboard, the frantic strings — is individually created, layered and combined with Pallett’s melodious voice. How to save the creative class: “Universal healthcare and no guns, basically” 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

It starts off all gentle and acoustic, then the guitar strums become more percussive as the bass and keyboards enter the mix. New band of the day: Empress (No 1,317) 2012-07-26T16:25:50Z

According to the Steinway archives, Motown’s piano first belonged to a metal-refining tycoon in Newark, and its replacement keyboard has come from an instrument sold to nuns in Georgia. Antiques: Motown Piano Restored - Postcard Books - Film on Lynd Ward 2012-03-22T20:50:46Z

Tharp, 74, found herself turning to Bach keyboard pieces that she'd known since her youth in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, which precipitated questions about the reason and purpose of making art.  Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

He came up with a keyboard riff and by the end of the day they had recorded Aeroplane's first single, Caramellas. Vito de Luca of nu-disco hitmakers Aeroplane on becoming a one-man band 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z

But if dance and flight are part of her Beethovenian arsenal, so too are dub beat and flamboyant keyboard flourishes. Yuja Wang slays Beethoven's monster piano piece — and makes it look easy 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

"I played every single part on the first record, and I said that numerous times in interviews, and people still wrote he's the keyboard player because he's a … bloke," she said. After a five-year absence, La Roux returns with 'Trouble in Paradise' 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

But he works in a wide variety of media - putting his drawings on stage amid a polyphony of keyboards and brass curious instruments salvaged from antique shops, and text from Shakespeare to Gogol. Artist William Kentridge on stage in South Africa 2011-09-17T12:29:12Z

Tom was like, ‘I’ve cataloged hours and hours and hours of Bill’s keyboard playing.’ William Eggleston, at 78, in a New Key 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

The big drums and prancing keyboards merge dance-music crescendo and punky attitude. Album review: Pink, 'The Truth About Love' 2012-09-18T04:36:00Z

Continuing to work his way through Bach’s keyboard works, Egarr has released a new recording of Bach’s “French Suites.” CD reviews: A cellist’s solo “Trance.” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Most of the percussion came by way of Smith's keyboard programming, but Sim's work on bass also drove melodies. The xx delivers an ethereal yet precise show at the Paramount 2012-10-07T21:10:05Z

The London-born Brooker was singer and keyboard player with the band, which had a huge hit with its first single, “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” Gary Brooker, frontman of rock band Procol Harum, dies at 76 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Since an electronic keyboard has no strings to tamper with, Mr. Trueman has developed software called the bitKlavier to change the instrument’s basic algorithms. Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

The novelist and musician James McBride was recently teaching six eager but distractible children to play keyboards in the basement of a modest church in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. Godfather of Soul Inspires the Spirit of James McBride to Write a Biography 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Once upon a time, computers were huge mainframes, tended by white-coated priesthoods and accessible only via "dumb terminals", ie screens with attached keyboards. At long last, there's a silver lining in the age of cloud computing 2011-02-27T00:05:28Z

Nancy Whang, on keyboards, set a glowing mood, which the drummer, Pat Mahoney, working intensely, punched through time and again. Critic?s Notebook: At the Garden, a Retirement and a Resuscitation 2011-04-03T21:54:34Z

It builds its long, changeable songs on busy Minimalistic patterns: loops and drones, overlapping guitar and keyboard lines, contrapuntal vocals that can turn into ethereal chorales. Music Review: Restraint Layered Over Scales of Expression 2010-12-03T01:08:00Z

He worked his good hand to the keyboard. Modern Love: Do Not Adjust Your Screen or Sound 2013-06-13T19:46:45Z

While the bass and drum parts from the demos were well developed, there was a translation process for Mr. Lindner, who used a total of nine keyboards with various distortion and effects pedals. On David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar,’ Turning to Jazz for Inspiration 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Browse his channel and you’re more likely to land on a boisterous holiday song medley, with him accompanying friends on keyboard or piano, or a goofy “Niche or Designer” game night. Chasing the Scent of a Brooklyn Fragrance Lover 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

It has a broad range of possible registrations, all beautiful, increased because the player can divide the sound between the treble and bass halves of each keyboard, and Egarr seems to use all of them. CD reviews: A cellist’s solo “Trance.” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a keyboard and a printer rolled into one! Perspective | Ask Amy: Teens deal with forced shaving, snubs and old-fashioned tech 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Rev played a $10 Japanese keyboard, and a few years later added a $30 Rhythm Prince drum machine that spit out chintzy rumba beats. Alan Vega Left a Robust Vault. The Excavation Begins With a New Album. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Returning from one of the show’s commercial breaks, Buttigieg jammed on keyboards with the show’s band on a rendition of “The Way We Get By” by the indie rock band Spoon. Review | Buttigieg charms his way to another good grade while guest-hosting Kimmel’s show 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Bach succeeded, of course, surpassing many of his own sublime keyboard pieces with the “Goldberg” Variations. Music Review: The Honens Winner Minsoo Sohn Performs at Zankel Hall 2012-10-09T22:01:37Z

A few blocks east of here is E Street, a short, one-way street where Bruce’s one-time keyboard player Dave Sancious’s mother lived, and where they would practise in the earliest days. 10 of the best Bruce Springsteen landmarks in New Jersey 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Electric keyboards are more to the liking of most young composers and have been for a half-century. The proof is in: The pipe organ is still the king of instruments 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Bruce Springsteen played most of the instruments on the record, but for several songs, he did have the backing of a small band — drums, bass, keyboards and violin. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Ecstatic rising tumults of keyboards and chorales is what Kyhlberg trades in, and no matter how hard he might try, that would appear to be his default compositional and recording style. New band of the day – Picture (No 1,334) 2012-08-20T15:56:02Z

Brilliant suffers from a surfeit of atmospheric keyboards and a deficit of standout tunes: portentous tracks such as Change and Live simply sound like fillers from one of their early-80s albums. Ultravox – review 2012-09-28T17:09:10Z

Elsewhere in the city, people were hunched over keyboards in air-conditioned cubicles, waiting for the workweek to end. It’s Summer. It’s Friday Afternoon. Party Time. 2012-08-08T21:12:25Z

Of course, unlike those other two early keyboard instruments, the tangent piano is as endangered as the black rhinoceros. An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

The keyboard alone weighed six pounds, twice as much as Apple’s largest MacBook Air laptop does today. Design: The Clunky PC That Started It All 2011-07-31T13:05:00Z

"It's like the Hollywood version of festivals," according to Joe Goddard, Hot Chip's singer and keyboard player. California dream 2010-04-19T10:21:00Z

The composer and jazz musician Jason Moran, for instance, created prints by playing his piano after he had covered the keyboard with paper and pigment. Prints Make Themselves Seen (and Heard) Again 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Except for hired string and horn sections, and women who drop by to share some lead vocals, Mr. Welton does the rest, including keyboards and programmed beats. Review: On ‘HitNRun Phase One,’ Prince Plays Well With Others 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

Instead Carpenter turned to keyboard and guitar, joining a high school rock group that played frat parties on weekends for extra cash. John Carpenter goes from behind the camera to center stage 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

TIME: It must have been a challenge to make the computer stuff visually exciting — people hunched over keyboards. Face-Off: The Makings of the Facebook Movie 2010-09-23T08:15:00Z

Once the beat and the keyboards establish themselves — almost immediately — the songs putter along, steady and uninterrupted, and Ms. Bettinson never raises her voice. New Music: The Debut of Ultraísta, and ‘Glad Rag Doll’ by Diana Krall 2012-10-01T21:36:40Z

Every morning he will tap away at his keyboard, and every afternoon he will walk by the ocean until the sun falls out of the sky. David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z

For well over a minute, slow keyboard chords waver in and out of tune as a distant electronic pulse twitches and a muffled, irregular kick-drum beat agitates from below. Thom Yorke Lightens Up, Ever So Slightly 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

"Superstition's" recording engineer Malcolm Cecil recalled how Wonder recorded the entire song on drums first, with no reference other than the song in his head, then the keyboard bass part, and then the Clavinet. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

On the Roseland Ballroom stage, her band was already in place, working over and around a warm keyboard passage, as the minutes ticked by: one, two, four, eight. Music Review: Erykah Badu?s Articulate Haze at Roseland Ballroom 2010-06-08T22:59:00Z

There’s no pulsing electronic backbeat and even though there’s smartphones and holograms, there’s not that much visible technology, no one tapping madly at keyboards while incomprehensible lines of green text scroll down the monitor. Gather around, screwed millennials: You must see this 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Valdés's octave span might even have frightened Rachmaninov, and his headlong keyboard exploits – traversing most of jazz piano history, and often veering into classical – sound as if they might burst open the doors. Chucho Vald?s 2010-04-06T21:35:00Z

Rather than lug her harp, she took a keyboard, savoring Adriatic vistas while composing her first film score. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Every note of the selected Couperin keyboard pieces is present in these treatments. Music Review: Britten Sinfonia Makes American Debut at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-23T23:53:29Z

His keyboards squirm, chatter and moan, distorted voices checking in from the next galaxy. Album review: Killer Mike, 'R.A.P. Music' 2012-05-18T17:33:00Z

“I was the teacher’s pet, and Lance was the funniest guy in the room,” said Hoffman, who played keyboards in the band. Lance Loud Was an Early Reality Star. He Was Also a Gay Punk Pioneer. 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Yirga’s fingers flew across the keyboard, and the crowd nodded their heads reverently even through deep forays into dissonance. In Ethiopia’s Capital, a Resurgent Jazz Scene 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

“I think we spent 20 days looking for one keyboard tone.” Julian Casablancas' Radical Reinvention 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

But this story of yobs spitting gobs turns into a busy production that’s as bombastic and overly filigreed as a prog-rock keyboard solo. Rock ’n’ Roll Swindles, Revisited 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

He was playing keyboard instruments by age 4. Happy 250th birthday to Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

So a call to the keyboard has gone out to all amateur copy editors with access to a computer. Charles Dickens bicentenary: Call for online editors to save forgotten journal 2011-08-06T21:28:35Z

Spend a bit more for a decent keyboard, or a good chair, take breaks; defend yourself. Why I was rude and other writers' woes 2010-05-11T08:37:00Z

It includes him Googling "Marina and the Diamonds" by skirting awkwardly across a keyboard, typing each letter with his head. Fan tribute videos: better than the originals? 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

A college-educated drummer, bass guitarist and keyboard wizard, he also hand drew the group’s album artwork cartoons. Perspective | Shock G of Digital Underground was a psychedelic rap pioneer who helped hip-hop crossover 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

A Clavinet looks like an electric keyboard, but it is an electro-mechanical string instrument originally developed for the performance of classical harpsichord and clavichord music. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

But the insistent internal propulsion and warm, rounded keyboard tones that Tangerine Dream settled on in the ’80s are still at the core of its music. Music Review: Tangerine Dream at Best Buy Theater 2012-07-09T22:24:33Z

It would help me do what I do, in playing the keyboard I play.” Critic’s Notebook: Michael Connelly Wants to Make a Film About Frank Morgan 2012-06-05T21:15:15Z

Though hardly strangers to the recital stage, Haydn’s keyboard works are treated like poor relations compared to Beethoven’s and Mozart’s. 2010-01-13T22:44:00Z

Joined by keyboard and percussion players, he works through an idiosyncratic but compelling 10-song set. Gil Scott-Heron 2010-04-26T22:30:00Z

“Diana should be pop and rock. Her songs are emotional, and the chorus can get back, and there are more drums and keyboards. Kind of like my band.” Another Go for Charles and Di, This Time With Music 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Here’s how songs, especially hip-hop and R&B songs, are made today : the framework is built in the studio by a producer, working on some combination of keyboard, drum machine, sampler and computer program. What’s Wrong With the ‘Blurred Lines’ Copyright Ruling 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

“I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.” Kathleen Hanna Returns With the Julie Ruin 2013-09-01T22:26:51Z

Candles lit the streets of Ballybricken late on Monday, as her coffin was brought to the church where McNamara said she once sang and played keyboard in the local choir. Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan laid to rest in home town 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

The point is that I had gone to a piano bar, and I had certain understandable expectations: lush, romantic music; the fluid dance of fingers across a keyboard; a trip back through time. The Tipsy Diaries: Getting a Kick From Piano Bars 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z

He writes minimalist piano and keyboard compositions, ambient soundscapes and dance and electronic tracks. The Remix Grammy: For the Art and Science of the Musical Cocktail 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

He didn't penalize soloists from the combo of keyboards, bass, electric guitar, clarinet, sax and percussion when it was their moment to steal $4.39 worth of hot solos. John Adams' 'Ceiling/Sky' remains earthbound 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

His fingers, brawny and unusually flexible, raced up and down the keyboard. Close at Hand with the Pianist Igor Levit 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

The band stacks up electric guitars in “You Have Boarded” and layers “Permalight” with keyboards, vocals and bell tones. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-28T23:00:00Z

Philip Glass’s early ensemble was built around winds, voices and keyboards. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z

I remember going home and hearing this squiggly keyboard line buried in the track, so I sang the "solitary brother" hookline over that. How we made Killer, by Seal and Adamski 2013-03-11T19:30:01Z

An interesting hybrid was an instrumental rendition of “Brazil,” in which Mr. Feinstein at the keyboard played what he called “a mini piano concerto” with the band. Michael Feinstein Salutes Sinatra at Birdland 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

The Verge chronicles the history of IBM’s Model M keyboard, now 30 years old but still beloved by PC gamers and design enthusiasts. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Liberace's technical genius at the keyboard means he does not need to rehearse, and his excess energy and artistry are channelled into chasing after young men. Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-06T14:29:02Z

“Thinkin’ Bout You” couldn’t be any less auspicious as an opening song, little more than a delicate, yearning falsetto vocal over vaporous keyboards and a muffled rhythm track. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z

Those acts performed on stages scattered around the Monterey Fairgrounds, while marquee attractions such as keyboard man Herbie Hancock played the main arena. Seattle-area musicians on hand as Monterey Jazz Festival marks 60th year 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s so easy to be abusive online because it is just a matter of a few clicks on a keyboard and the “enter” key. Cecil the Lion, Walter Palmer and Online Shaming 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Hewitt is nearing the end of her Bach Odyssey at the Y, a multiyear survey of the composer’s complete keyboard works. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Augmenting their sound with electric guitar and electric bass, with Mr. Sample playing mostly electric keyboards, the Jazz Crusaders became the Crusaders. Joe Sample, Crusaders Pianist Who Went Electric, Dies at 75 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

Pedja Muzijevic, on harpsichord, provided a crisp backbone for all the concertos and in the Fifth — an early premonition of a keyboard concerto — he contributed an exhilarating, wildly chromatic cadenza. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Bach 2013-12-17T22:02:05Z

As we sit at our own keyboards, dreaming of the world outside, it’s both funny and painful to see an unsparing collapse of the distance between reality and fantasy. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

With her, even matters of sheer technique emerge as poetry, as in the velvety legato of her scales running the length of the keyboard. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

McCabe is a celebrated recitalist who’s a University of Washington professor of music, heading the keyboard division. Larionoff, McCabe take on Beethoven’s violin sonatas at UW 2013-02-14T23:06:45Z

She has given arresting renditions of jazz standards and Schubert lieder and has composed atmospheric miniatures for voice and keyboard. Music Review: ‘The Vienna Rite,’ by Judith Berkson, at Roulette 2012-11-05T19:43:03Z

For “River Lea,” Danger Mouse sampled the singer’s voice and then used the vocal samples to create “choir-like keyboard chords.” Adele Shares Exciting Details About Her New Album '25' 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

He played "Layla" acoustic, but in a telling move, he ceded his most famous solo to his two keyboard players. Clapton's KeyArena show solid but short on spontaneity 2011-02-28T04:11:03Z

The electric keyboards are programmed to function like organs, their sound more saturated than that of the crisp pianos. Music Review: Juilliard Students Perform in ChamberFest 2013-01-19T01:39:49Z

This is the mathematical way to fiddle with the size of intervals between notes so that fixed-pitch instruments, particularly keyboards, can play in all 12 keys without retuning. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

A membrane beneath the keyboard drains away liquid spills before they reach anything important, and the battery life is Methuselan. Tools of the Trade 2011-02-09T23:00:00Z

After a standing ovation, Hancock strapped on a synthesizer keyboard for an encore of "Time After Time" and "So What." Montreux fetes Miles Davis with "soundtrack" to his life 2011-07-14T13:56:02Z

It is almost impossible for an unaided human to perform - so online fans fed it through the video game 'Synethesia', which challenges players to keep up with piano music on their keyboards. Pianist Hamelin breathes new life into "dead" composers 2013-11-14T08:05:00Z

The song builds from a hypnotic, layered piano/drums intro to include swinging horns and a wild, scuzzy guitar solo, both of which I'm guessing Dean made with a keyboard. Music Monday: Butts, Michael Dean, Dum Dum Girls 2010-03-15T20:09:00Z

"There was no keyboard player on the planet more appropriate to support Jim Morrison's words," he added. Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek dies 2013-05-21T09:28:37Z

At any rate, the Liszt work, based on a theme from Meyerbeer’s opera “Le Prophète,” offered almost as much to watch as to hear, with its virtuosic peregrinations over the keyboards and pedals. Almost as Much to Watch as to Hear: Mighty Organ Pieces 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Beyond Mr. Corea’s own keyboard touch, springy and clear with controlled flourish and just about perfect time, it’s hard to find a clean aesthetic line through what he does. Music Review: A Jazz Man Returns to His Past 2011-01-23T22:40:51Z

Granted, certain strands are eliminated, or slipped into one of the two keyboard parts. Music Review: St. Luke?s Chamber Ensemble in Mahler Program - Review 2011-09-09T22:54:44Z

“I had never had any hope I would ever see a piano,” said Arson, who was introduced to the keyboard just a year ago. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z

For over 40 years he played keyboards with the Charlie Daniels Band, and he co-wrote their smash “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” 2011?s 50 New Members of Rock and Roll Heaven 2011-12-30T17:57:04Z

So Hunter will tour with the guitarist and keyboard player who joined Mott for its anticlimactic 1974 swan song, “The Hoople.” Reunion Tour! The Band Is Back! Wait, Who Are These Guys? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

That experience shows; this is a wonderfully fluid performance of one of the most beguiling keyboard works of the last 100 years. Cage: Sonatas and Interludes – review 2012-07-05T21:27:01Z

That weaving is obvious on the studio cuts from “Star People Nation,” where the songs are laden with electronic keyboards, textures and effects. Theo Croker and his band prove that jazz has a healthy heartbeat 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

It’s set 7,000 years in the future and, as he explains: “ ‘Spacebar’ is not about the space key on the computer keyboard. ‘Spacebar,’ a Play About a Play, by Michael Mitnick 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

It begins with a rude, insistent electronic drumbeat and wilting keyboard chords, and slowly rises to its feet. The Playlist: Radiohead Returns, and Justin Timberlake Trolls the World 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

The set starts with a slinking riff and African percussion backed by a swirl of keyboards, while on Owiny Techno the chanting vocals are matched against rumbling bass. Owiny Sigoma Band: Power Punch – review 2013-04-11T22:04:01Z

On Thursday night, he will headline at Barclays Center, playing live keyboards and triggering samples and presets on a lighted platform while being joined by a singer. Kygo Delivers Dance Beats, With a Side Order of Pan Flute 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

He filmed the investigator at work to see how he gets started and manipulates the keyboard when he is trying to show you how the software is being accessed. "Black Box" filmmaker on making a plane crash thriller that requires you to listen closely 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

El-P’s drums pummel all opposition, then leave space for growling keyboards to roam like wolves. Album review: El-P, 'Cancer 4 Cure' 2012-05-21T01:44:00Z

She was backed by a crack band that provided keyboards, percussion and bass, and at times was joined by a male dancer. Review | As crowd roars, Robyn dances on her own at the Anthem 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

As communication using computers proliferated, so did people’s recourse to those lesser-used characters at the edges of their computer keyboard. Don’t p@nic 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The sound is appropriately violent and unruly, Bean's drums rolling and tumbling around McCombs' strident bass lines and Rizzo's sheets-of-sound guitar, while Greenberg's keyboards spackle the cracks in the arrangements with drone. Eleventh Dream Day won't wait 2011-04-21T18:34:11Z

He’s now at his keyboard eight hours a day and can knock out the first draft of a script in three or four weeks. His movie scripts were rejected for 40 years. His Christmas film just aired on Lifetime. 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

He’s also back in his more recent robo-R&B realm of electronic keyboards, programmed drums and the buzzing fringe of Auto-Tune on his voice. New Music: New Albums by R. Kelly and Parmalee 2013-12-09T22:29:43Z

He decided to ply the Brighton circuit instead, living on peanut butter-slathered burgers from a takeaway by the pier and lugging a keyboard around open mic nights. Tom Odell: 'Having your heart broken makes for good songs' 2013-03-24T00:06:37Z

The ensemble’s pianist Mabel Kwan sat at an electronic keyboard in the right brain area of the Cammilleri stage, where she proceeded to mess with our spacial and musical processing functions. Chicago-based Dal Niente pops up in new L.A. music series called Poolhouse 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

He began with Bach’s arrangement for keyboard of Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in D minor; this was Bach’s pragmatic way of getting to know the latest currents in Italian music from the inside. Review: Young Concert Artists Is Back, With a Superb Pianist 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

His thoughtfully conceived program was devoted to English keyboard masters of the late 16th and 17th centuries, with the Dutchman Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck thrown in for good measure. Richard Egarr brings ancient music to life at Library of Congress concert 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

Goldstone plays them all with great fluency and panache, if without quite the range of keyboard colour that such virtuoso vehicles really need. Tchaikovsky: Rare Transcriptions and Paraphrases – review 2012-06-14T21:08:01Z

During the fleet-footed first movement, he ended a gentle upward scale with a flick of the wrist; after another run, his hands took flight off the keyboard. Review: Lang Lang Returns, Rehabilitated and Almost Reformed 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Conductor Angie Benson’s band of guitars, keyboards, bass and drums — situated in and above the stage — drowns out some of the singers. Review | A galvanizing ‘Rent’ raises pulses as it welcomes audiences back to Signature Theatre 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

He wrote his next two books by expelling air from a tube that activated a keyboard. Publishing bad boy Giancarlo DiTrapano: Gordon Lish calls me “darling” 2013-09-07T19:00:00Z

I'll be back at the keyboards in about a week — with some art and architectural discoveries from the smoggy capital of Santiago. Moment of Friday: Journey to the land of Jodorowsky 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

But he was all business, going over the “Philadelphia Voices” score and the logistics of how to perform it, asking who would join the orchestra to play Mr. Machover’s digital recordings on the keyboard. How a Philly Cheesesteak Goes From the Grill to Carnegie Hall 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

“Welcome to Boomerstock,” Bob Geldof said, where “guys and gals with guitars and keyboards still think it’s possible to change things.” Sting, Annie Lenox and Other MTV Stars Sing for the Rainforest 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

But perhaps it’s just the slight social disconnect of a young man whose natural affinity is with a keyboard. ‘I liked going to New York as a drug trafficker’: Duane Jackson 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

"The notes I handle no better than many pianists," he says of his keyboard playing, "but the pauses between notes, that is where the art resides." Prographica's 'Space Between Things': the lure of the void 2012-10-04T20:05:14Z

Elsewhere there were songs of lesser turbulence — a new ballad, “Hyperpathos,” revolved around the slow permutation of a scintillating harmonic sequence — but it all kept coming back to the keyboard as a gravitational center. Music Review: Matt Mitchell, With Trio, at Greenwich House 2012-08-10T21:26:44Z

The song arrangements are lush, filled with exquisite horns, crisp funky snare drums, backing vocals, a variety of natural keyboard sounds, and even pedal steel and vibraphone. Review: Iron & Wine's latest another step forward 2013-04-15T20:58:08Z

That sense struck a distinctive note on the keyboard of the imagination. In praise of … typewriters 2012-11-20T23:01:48Z

TYPEFACE: The result of falling asleep at your keyboard. Style Invitational: ‘Wait Wait’ for us with multiple-choice trivia questions 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

You are not, though, in control when you attend these productions; other hands are on the keyboard, as it were. At ?Malfi? and ?Bum Bum? in London, Active Audience 2010-08-12T22:26:00Z

Green is a multi-instrumentalist, playing anything from guitars to keyboards, cello, harp, banjo, percussion and zither, while his colleagues add bass, synth or viola. The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends: Folk Songs II – review 2012-08-02T20:45:01Z

"There was no keyboard player on the planet more appropriate to support Jim Morrison's words," Densmore said in a statement. Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74 2013-05-21T14:23:11Z

There was plenty of firepower, but what lingers in the memory was the array of delicate filigree effects and the brilliant contrasts Ax was able to create at the keyboard. Emanuel Ax at Benaroya: From thorny to daring to magical 2012-03-12T03:11:32Z

Approaching from the indie-rock side was Beach House, with its stately, hypnotic, minimalist keyboard patterns reaching for grandeur. ArtsBeat: A Rain-Soaked Kickoff to the Governors Ball 2013-06-09T21:42:26Z

A keyboard stood in the corner, and above his desk hung a picture of Darío with broad shoulders and a thinker’s stare. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

He’s managed, through some bumbling misuse of his keyboard, to convert his online face into a talking spud. Review | Round House Theatre’s sweet and funny new Web series serves up covid-19-era life in 10-minute slices 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Feuding: I will as soon as I scrape my jaw off my keyboard. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Therapist. Cousin. It’s all relative. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

I set up my keyboard, fixed my eyes on the screen and my window view. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

In every instance, Perez transformed the originals with the complex harmonies and idiosyncratic keyboard textures that are hallmarks of his pianism. The provocative pianism of Danilo Perez 2011-04-22T14:03:00Z

We wrote about how campaign rhetoric stokes the passions of keyboard racists targeting activists and leftist writers with Auschwitz images and twisted lynching fantasies. An open letter to the “Ivanka voters” I grew up with: I hope you get what you want 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

White skulls were displayed on top of his keyboards and piano. Hugh Laurie, Dr John, Trombone Shorty in New Orleans tribute 2012-07-10T13:38:34Z

The settings required much instrument swapping by her versatile backup crew, who also played keyboards, recorder, banjo, tambura and more. Joanna Newsom, unconventional in every way 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

He stood at a keyboard to play an earnest electric-piano intro to “Peaches” before getting back to the dancing. Bieber wows A-list crowd at pre-Super Bowl ‘Homecoming’ 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

He recorded Schubert’s “Winterreise” with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, which was released by Warner Classics last spring, and he hopes a public role at the keyboard will emerge. Fleming, Nézet-Séguin release recording on climate change 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The score pits three electronic keyboards against a percussion trio, with players on both sides recruited from the contemporary-music ensemble Yarn/Wire. Music Review: ‘The Vienna Rite,’ by Judith Berkson, at Roulette 2012-11-05T19:43:03Z

On June 22 Olga Bell, who sang and played keyboards with the band Dirty Projectors, brings her song cycle “Krai” to 28 Liberty Plaza. River to River to Include Will Rawls, Dance Heginbotham and Eiko 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Then the camera jumps out to reveal him seated at a keyboard next to a cute kid in a stripy top. Are you ever too old for pop music? 2012-06-16T23:06:03Z

That track, Alerion - is that a rave keyboard break we hear before us? New band of the day - No 987: Asking Alexandria 2011-03-16T17:57:00Z

He would chant, yelp and shriek while his bandmate, Martin Rev, stood impassively in the background, his face half-hidden by dark glasses, droning away on a cheap electronic keyboard. Alan Vega Ignored the Art World. It Won’t Return the Favor. 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The two went through music school together, playing together a lot, and there are deep similarities — not only in the individual keyboard sound but in their strategies for piano trio as well. Music Review: Making a Return From Organ to Piano at the Village Vanguard 2010-04-14T22:57:00Z

She also sings in two languages and plays guitar and keyboards. Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z

The music, a perfunctory stroll through the presets on a cheap keyboard, is similarly one-dimensional. The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Chocolate Ty – Queen of the City 2013-06-19T06:30:00Z

The result deprives Curlew River of its quiet wonder and mystery, and the performance, directed from the keyboard of a chamber organ by Roger Vignoles, also lacks the suppleness it needs. Curlew River – review 2013-06-19T16:42:28Z

Roger Linn, whose LinnDrum put the beat in many 1980s hits, demonstrated new controllers that are sensitive to more parameters than keyboards, aiming to restore virtuosity and a human touch to electronic music. Critic’s Notebook: Moogfest 2014 Unfolds in Asheville, N.C. 2014-04-28T22:13:11Z

A wordless little ditty, like a child singing to herself, is quickly doubled a couple of octaves below; a religious stateliness in the keyboards lies over a deep-pocketed groove, accented by spacey, jazzy guitar lines. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile Phillips is supervising a Perkins recording session, to which he has invited his latest discovery, Lewis, to add his flaming keyboard licks. | 'Million Dollar Quartet': On Broadway With Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Company 2010-04-12T02:19:00Z

“Eat of me, baby, skin to the bone/Body on body until I’m all gone,” she sings, over strummed, echoey guitar chords and a wavery keyboard, serenely offering to sacrifice herself for love. Coi Leray Borrows a Hip-Hop Classic, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

An overwhelming display of rhythm, brass, strings, voices and keyboards, it's also a tough record to crack. Essential albums of 2015: Bjork, Kendrick and 8 others on the edge of pop 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

He kept both hands on the keyboard for nearly an hour, with pulsating rhythm and ambiguous tonal centers. Music Review: Honoring Heroes of Jazz, With Words, Silence and Improvisation 2010-06-25T23:44:00Z

They used an electronic keyboard known as a Mellotron, distorted guitars, hip-hop-style percussion and de-tuned instruments — including banjos and bass harmonicas — to give a modern effect to sounds from the period. What’s a Kanye West song doing in a TV show about slavery? 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

Unlike "Dear Heather," an underproduced album full of dinky-sounding keyboard, "Old Ideas" features acoustic instruments: violin, slide guitar, trumpet, lightly brushed drums. Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas' wrestles with death 2012-01-30T22:33:07Z

“Wind instrument makers can throw 30 recorders in a backpack and take them on the plane, but getting keyboards here is more convoluted.” ArtsBeat: Instrument Makers Take Their Turn at Boston Festival 2011-06-15T20:30:53Z

He does not stint on beautiful things — major arpeggios, soul-chord progressions, lines that flow and breathe — and his keyboard touch is rounded and gorgeous, a feeling you remember. Playlist Ben Ratliff: New CDs From Jade Alston, Jeremy Pelt and Alcest 2012-01-13T16:26:28Z

It’s the @ symbol on the computer keyboard, which is an essential component of every e-mail address. Design: Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem 2010-03-21T15:52:00Z

Former spouses aren’t the only parties to see a benefit in keeping their communiqués limited to the keyboard. Joint Custody, From a Distance 2012-11-23T21:27:45Z

Judge Kronstadt determined that there was a genuine dispute as to whether several elements - including signature phrases, hooks, bass lines, keyboard chords and vocal melodies - were similar. Blurred Lines dispute to go to trial 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Hancock's conventional keyboard part is the best thing on this song by a mile. Readers recommend: songs about uncertainty 2010-10-21T23:01:00Z

“On the very first one, we tried to literally sit side by side on the keyboard, and that didn’t really work, we just bickered the whole time,” he said. The Carpetbagger: 'Tinker, Tailor' Confused Even the Screenwriter 2012-02-23T21:18:54Z

At one point he sang a version of Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California” sparsely arranged for mandolin, keyboards and acoustic guitar. Robert Plant With Led Zeppelin Hits and More 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

There’s lots of masking going on: triggered samples, guitar tones fed through keyboards, bass pitch altered up to guitar range, and vice versa. Music Review: Lines, Loops And a Skyline Spectacle 2011-04-28T21:38:57Z

"Then you get some drums. Then you go to the keyboard. Then you go to the bass. It was the same process, but with people." Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

His music is equally outside the hip-hop norm, with beat-less interludes and lost-in-space keyboards that occasionally make Drake sound like he’s several planets away. Album review: Drake, 'Take Care' 2011-11-13T19:26:00Z

His band are huddled on the other side of the keyboard. Tom Odell: 'Having your heart broken makes for good songs' 2013-03-24T00:06:37Z

He loves gadgets, and uses laptops, Wii-motes, joysticks, keyboards and video game controllers onstage, even as he sings and plays drums and guitar. New band of the day – Robert DeLong (No 1,449) 2013-02-11T16:52:59Z

The Landless gang has tailored “Sweeney’s” score for two guitars, two keyboards, bass and drums thanks to a group of seven musicians the company calls the Fleet Street Collective. Attend the tale, and turn it up: New prog metal ‘Todd’ premieres in D.C.

The encores included two mournful, bitter songs about the toll of war and violence: “Shipbuilding” and “For More Tears,” both accompanied by sparse, hymnlike keyboard chords. Elvis Costello Treats Carnegie Hall to a Solo Show 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

He hunched over the keyboard, beginning with a work for the left hand alone. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Khristenko’s gentle, loving approach to the keyboard — and his palette of touches — yielded a startling array of emotions. Pianist Khristenko helps Fairfax Symphony finish season joyously 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

Corgan’s keyboard colors are especially vital to setting the album’s tone, as are his incorporation of vocal harmonies, featuring bassist Fiorentino.  Album review: Smashing Pumpkins, 'Oceania' 2012-06-18T14:57:00Z

Although the instrumentation of the Glass Ensemble remains the same, the keyboards have grown in sophistication, replacing the endearing but reedy sounds of the original Farfisa electric organs. ‘Einstein on the Beach’ Revival at BAM Raises Questions 2012-08-31T14:06:50Z

Famously, when Al Kooper played that organ part – which musicians ever since have attempted to imitate – it was the first time he had played a keyboard on a session. Highway 61: re-examining Bob Dylan’s opus, 50 years on 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

He is a “logic machine” at the keyboard, according to friends. The boring journey of Matt Yglesias 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

"We kind of picked somewhere that hasn't been used before as a gig venue," Ben Lovett, the keyboard player and singer, told the crowd during a break between songs. ArtsBeat: Mumford & Sons Begin U.S. Tour in Hoboken 2012-08-02T09:21:07Z

He then moved to New York and formed Ursa Major, a short-lived band that included Mr. Wagner on guitar and Billy Joel on keyboards. Dick Wagner, rock guitarist who co-wrote many of Alice Cooper’s hits, dies at 71

It was also the first sign that they were going beyond their Texas roots by adding a New Wave flavor to their sound, with Mr. Hill also playing keyboard. Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

There are traces everywhere, from the Vaccines' garage fuzz to the keyboard reveries of Porcelain Raft and Idiot Glee. Our New Band Of The Day 2010 playlist 2010-12-31T15:14:29Z

Have a thousand drunken chihuahuas been released from their designer handbags and been tripping over a thousand laptop keyboards? Footballers' Wives 2010-06-15T06:59:00Z

He played long, tensile eighth-note lines, rocking calmly at the keyboard, interacting with the changing patterns from the rhythm section. Music Review: Beka Gochiashvili and Gadi Lehavi at the Allen Room 2013-05-19T21:34:20Z

Where Ms. Krall usually plays vigorous keyboards on her albums, here her pianism is all but absent. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

“Let’s all pray on it, right now,” he mutters before digging into his keyboard solo on “Revolution.” Album review: Dr. John, 'Locked Down' ✭✭✭ 1/2 2012-04-01T23:26:00Z

After the film, I had fathers coming up to me asking advice about what kind of keyboard to get their kid. An oral history of Fame: 'We were dancing on cars in the epicentre of porn and filth!' 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Later on, a celebration of keyboards includes music by three different Bachs, Mendelssohn, Satie, Lutoslawski and more. Classical Music Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Cox, the one-time keyboard player with 1990s pop group D:Ream, found fame on the small screen presenting BBC2's Wonders of the Solar System. Sir David Attenborough passes natural history crown to Brian Cox 2013-01-30T15:36:09Z

Actually Michael Winner, hunched over the keyboard, typing incessantly about my bristols? Got to get this off my chest 2011-02-20T00:05:50Z

“I thought I’d have more keyboards, more instrumentation on the record, but there was just the three of us,” Womack says of the recording sessions last year. Bobby Womack interview: 'I wonder why I'm still here' 2012-09-20T19:41:00Z

Then Squirrel will decide he wants my attention — he likes to walk over my keyboard. Review | ‘Solutions and Other Problems’ author Allie Brosh talks cats, depressions and the joys of Zoom book tours 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

Having since spent four seasons writing episodes of “Catastrophe,” he now knows that he’s happiest when he’s “clickety clacking on the keyboard. For a first draft this time, I was pretty well behaved.” Rob Delaney Wants You to Know How He’s Feeling (It May Ruin Your Day) 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

According to the press release, what he wanted to create was "a collection of drugged-up keyboards and slick production almost exclusively inspired by 10cc's I'm Not in Love". New band of the day ? No 757: Gayngs 2010-03-30T16:12:00Z

She played keyboards for a band called the Rentals, toured a bit, but soon admitted to herself that she really wanted to be a comedian. Maya Rudolph: ‘I'm not a woman in comedy. I'm a comedian' 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

The music is restrained and meticulous, all graceful melodies, plucked strings and shimmery keyboard tones. Review: Sufjan Stevens’s Quietly Moving ‘Carrie & Lowell’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

When Laurel Halo, the headliner, struck the first harsh, loud, pummeling notes on her keyboard, after an extremely long set-up period, only a few people noticed. Music Review: Keyboard Speaks Louder Than a Microphone 2011-06-20T21:56:23Z

Harrison’s distinctive Farfisa-through-fuzzbox is one of the definitive rock keyboard sounds, echoed today in a band like Clinic. Dean Wareham: My Jonathan Richman romance 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually he was drafted by Mr. Murphy to play keyboards on LCD Soundsystem’s final album and farewell tour. Pop: Disco Revival in New York With Crystal Ark and Escort 2012-11-18T02:23:03Z

She admits it's emotional looking back to that period, when it was "just me and the keyboard". Keys to play Albert Hall concert 2011-04-13T11:07:41Z

These orchestrations are complicated, taking on unexpected syncopations and allowing guitars and keyboards to chunk-chunk-chunk or squeal away in different directions. Sondheim goes ‘crunch’ in prog-metal ‘Sweeney Todd’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

The two old bats delight in belittling and deflating each other at every click of the keyboard. Iron Chef UK 2010-04-25T23:05:00Z

Embracing his supplemental role, McDonald will play mandolin and accordion at these concerts along with his usual keyboards. Doobie Brothers try to keep long train running, 50 years on 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Ax spent much of the time at the keyboard facing the orchestra, catching the players' eyes as though he were playing chamber music once more. Miguel Harth Bedoya and L.A. Phil have special chemistry 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

As a student in Brighton he put together a band to play his songs, enlisting his cousin Oscar Cash and Gabriel Stebbing to play keyboards and bass. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z

To fix the problem, his husband, Jim Ready, bought him a yellow keyboard three times the size of a normal one. Story time: Barney Frank brings his wit and Washington wisdom to Harvard

The lyrics ponder spiritual matters, while the arrangement — elusive acoustic guitar and Mr. DeFrancesco providing not only vaporous keyboard but also a muted, Miles Davis-tinged trumpet — beckons toward, if not into, the mystic. The Playlist: Sharon Van Etten Comes Back Strong, and 11 More New Songs 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

His set-up on a raised platform – looking a bit like a spaceship – lays bare the internal workings of his sound, with two laptops, a keyboard and row of loop pedals. Benga – review 2012-06-06T17:23:57Z

The recordings revolved around Mr. Mangum’s voice and acoustic guitar, often strummed with the unswerving drive of punk, and sometimes joined by sparse circus-band horns, woozy keyboards or full band. Music Review: Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel at BAM - Review 2012-01-20T23:56:50Z

“Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes” is a deeper plunge into Mr. Yorke’s personal purgatory, a realm of blurry keyboard tones and fractured dance beats, of somber tidings that are crooned with eerie equanimity. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

The production is light, with twinkling keyboards and springy bass — as ethereal as her lyrics are grounded. You will miss her when she’s gone: Noname soars live 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Flaherty beams and conducts to himself — though soon he claps his hands over his ears and stares at his computer screen, then noodles on a tiny musical keyboard perched on his lap. From ‘Ragtime’ to ‘Rocky’ to ‘Dancer’: Flaherty and Ahrens, together 30 years

Chipmunks were too hyperactive to linger around either device, even though I sprinkled the keyboards liberally with birdseed, which chipmunks seem to enjoy far more than birds do. Critic’s Notebook: DogTV, as Viewed by Many Discerning Species 2012-08-30T21:45:55Z

Her electric keyboard sits beside a makeshift vanity table and laptop computer. Child star of Oscar-winning film faces deportation 2011-03-04T15:02:16Z

Mr. Abreu, 73, has degrees in keyboard and composition, and he studied conducting. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z

The keyboards are never less than cute and the singing is so boyish and wan it makes Bernard Sumner sound like Bruce Springsteen. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z

He played keyboards for Dare in the 80s and for D:Ream in the 90s, but his rock'n'roll years are long over. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z

But he was heartened to report that among them are 9 or 10 keyboard makers. ArtsBeat: Instrument Makers Take Their Turn at Boston Festival 2011-06-15T20:30:53Z

Her version of the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" offers sampled news snippets and keyboards that resemble experimental electronic compositions, as well as guitarist Adrian Belew adding the occasional jolting riff. Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" is a quietly triumphant covers collection that endures 20 years on 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

Initially, they played acoustic guitar and keyboards, but soon their instrumentation took in the toy instruments and a child's mouth organ. The Candle Thieves reinvent the rock tour in your garden 2010-03-18T23:20:00Z

But when Ms. Mueller sings the show’s title song — sitting at a keyboard in, of course, Carnegie for the production’s finale — she delivers something you don’t expect from a jukebox musical. Theater Review: ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical’ at Sondheim Theater 2014-01-13T03:00:12Z

Dedicating his performance to the memory of the late keyboard player Ikey Owens, he and his large band moved through highlights from across White's repertoire.  Coachella 2015: Jack White bids farewell, Kanye West says hello in week 2 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

A little amp, wrapped like a gift, tilts back and vibrates the mechanical thrum of a walkie-talkie keyboard feedback loop. What does rock music look like? Cal State L.A. gallery plays with the idea of sound 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Many historic fantasies were written for solo keyboard performances. Violinist Hilary Hahn to appear at Seattle’s Meany Hall 2014-04-25T23:43:15Z

The tracks they built rely on imperturbably sustained keyboards, layers of Zsela’s voice in unison and harmony, subdued electronic percussion and myriad near-subliminal sounds. Meet Zsela, a Singer Perfecting the Art of Taking It Slowly 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

It also proves conclusively that snakes do not appreciate the miracle of Tupperware and that putting birdseed on your laptop keyboard is a poor idea. Critic’s Notebook: DogTV, as Viewed by Many Discerning Species 2012-08-30T21:45:55Z

There were dancing troupes, a choir, red-bow-tied trumpeters, keyboard players and people darting around filming on their tablets. Chinua Achebe funeral celebrates revered Nigerian author 2013-05-23T17:37:10Z

On Sunday, hear the First and Fifth Symphonies, as well as the Piano Concerto No. 4, with Richard Goode at the keyboard. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Lin, 25, is a muscular poet of the keyboard. Pianist Steven Lin sets bar high for Washington Performing Arts’ new season

Large pipe organs require much more than just keyboard dexterity, and each one is different. Frederick Swann, Master of the Pipe Organ, Is Dead at 91 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

She also described the new release as the “swansong” of Rick Wright, the band’s keyboard player who died in 2008 at the age of 65. Pink Floyd's First Album in 20 Years Due in October 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

"The Sprawl II" switches up the instrumentation and uses shimmer-stomp keyboards instead of the band's usual carny orchestra, but it's still an Arcade Fire song through and through. Music Monday: Arcade Fire, DoughKain, Lake House Entertainment 2010-08-02T18:51:00Z

The timbral clouds she conjures from the keyboards and strings are riveting, too. Pianist Margaret Leng Tan brings her musical 'sorcery' to Seattle 2011-05-18T23:17:12Z

Abetted by Evans, Pearl Jam lets its songs billow outward with neo-psychedelic richness: clouds of vocal harmony or guitar tones, subtle bulwarks of keyboard, impulsive instrumental passages, playgrounds of percussion. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

In an ultimatum carried by a stately crescendo of keyboards, Holly Humberstone reminds a partner who’s threatening to leave just how much she has already put up with. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

“Ride” is mostly a keyboard instrumental -- except when Sena occasionally interrupts to croon “the water ... the water ...”  or scat sing. Throwbacks: Summer reissues of strange surf music, gay proto-punk, 'Robocop' and more

The Balinese ensemble Gamelan Salukat, arrayed on low platforms at stage left, offers boisterous flurries on metal keyboards, punctuated with cylindrical drums and deep, sonorous gongs. Music Review: Moved by Music of the Tropics, A Composer Moves to Them 2010-10-16T01:00:00Z

Mr. Gets, who regards them with equal measures of alarm and affection, discovers he can freeze them into dead silence by taking his fingers off the keyboard. | 'Ten Cents a Dance': Music, Memories and Regret 2011-08-15T22:20:09Z

Perhaps “wild” might be a tad overstated for a group that spends most of its time in front of a keyboard. The Downtown Library at age 10: a haven for researchers 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z

So I sampled them and put them on a keyboard. Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes on "Medazzaland" turning 25: "I love the sonic architecture" 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

On a recent Friday afternoon, employees sat serenely in the firm’s SoHo offices, the room silent except for rapid keyboard clicks. The Calorie-Packed Perk 2013-06-19T19:42:29Z

One plays keyboards in an oldies cover band. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z

Sometimes the three screens will form a triptych or linger on Ms. Allen’s hands on the keyboard. ‘Slow Fade to Black,’ at Celebrate Brooklyn! in Prospect Park 2012-06-14T21:52:25Z

Multitracked trumpets, flutes, keyboards and voices cascade across the drummer’s light, ever-shifting beat, building chromatic harmonies that continually elude resolution — a structure of endless longing. Chloë Tangles With Future, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

The one time I saw OC Notes do a live set that wasn't strictly DJing, it was an entrancing mix of live sampler playing, keyboards and vocals. Late notice: Slowwave at Havana, OC Notes at Chop Suey 03/07/11 2011-03-07T18:55:07Z

It would be nice to say it went impeccably, but there were some stutters in Tran’s keyboard performance that surely didn’t belong there. Ballet Genève taps deep into the structure of Bach’s ‘Clavier’ 2014-04-04T19:48:03Z

The idea is that each time someone presses the keyboard, it will trigger the pipe organ to make noises of varying degrees of loudness. Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth faces huge cock up 2010-08-19T14:10:00Z

Guitars and keyboards are resonant, unhurried partners to durable melodies; the orchestrations nestle within the tracks, cozy and self-effacing. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z

This small touch, writing by hand instead of on a computer keyboard, put people at ease, I believed, and inspired trust. "I know where Saddam Hussein is hiding": What I saw in Iraq right after the 2003 U.S. invasion 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

In videos posted to Facebook, you can see her leading rehearsals with a bustling intensity, demonstrating knotty chord patterns with her voice, then on the keyboard, before quickly moving on to the next thing. Esperanza Spalding Will Record ‘Exposure’ in Front of the World 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

The first begins with manic bursts of arpeggios that sweep up the keyboard and cascade down in crystalline riffs, finally breaking into a restless melodic line that unfurls amid rustling figurations and teeming chords. Review: A Teenage Virtuoso Prevails in a Liszt Endurance Test 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

His predatory manner of hovering over the keyboard has proved unforgettable. Daniil Trifonov, 24, is ready to make magic at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Lisa-Kaindé plays keyboards and sings most of the lead vocals; her sustained, forthright voice sometimes allows itself some of Billie Holiday’s sultry flutter. Review: Ibeyi, Twin Sisters and a Duo, Uses Songs to Show Roots 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Freed from playing keyboards on stage, Todd's guitar work is faster and surer than ever, truly the easiest way for him to be a star if that were all he had in mind. Todd Rundgren: 'What I'm doing isn't even really music' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-13T13:01:33Z

Mr. Freire, the critic continued, possessed “one of the biggest natural talents for the keyboard that I have ever heard.” Nelson Freire, Piano Virtuoso of Warmth and Finesse, Dies at 77 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

When Mr. Glass wrote what is now Part 1, in May 1971, he meant the work’s title to indicate that the piece, for keyboards, winds and voice, was built of 12 lines of counterpoint. Into the Music: Tune-In Music Festival Celebrates Philip Glass 2012-02-19T03:43:19Z

He has a smart, beseeching sound on alto saxophone, but spent more of the set behind a keyboard rig, singing hooks and ad-libs through a vocoder. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a far cry from the palatial arrangements of Pet Sounds, but it’s still nice to see the band moving away from the cheesy keyboards and tinny drum machines of albums like Summer In Paradise. Beach Boys' 'Radio' Tunes Into Summer Nostalgia 2012-06-05T10:45:30Z

But Mr. Pinderhughes was in command, switching frequently from piano to electric keyboards and pausing between songs to address the full crowd. Live Jazz: 3 July Standouts, From Thumbscrew to Nabaté Isles 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Guitars and keyboards mesh but also grapple in the fast rockers, always making sloppy sense. Review: ‘Thunderbitch’ Features Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Outwardly, Adès is a burly pianist with massive technique and magnificent sound for whom the keyboard seems a way to indulge in an appetite of sensuous pleasures. Spectacular start to Piano Spheres' 21st season 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

There he was, quietly watching as Mr. Kander conjured from his keyboard a melody for an interlude in “The Landing.” Kander & Pierce, a New Team in the Musical Theater 2012-05-23T21:58:57Z

But in Davido’s music, the programmed beats also mesh with African percussion, twisty guitar and keyboard lines and rhythms from across Africa and the Caribbean. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

To change, productions need Native writers at keyboards and Native directors behind cameras to ensure that the character development of indigenous characters does not suffer. "The Native characters aren't afterthoughts": "Barkskins" writer on reclaiming Native narratives 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

I brought an acoustic guitar out here and left all my keyboards in Virginia. Q&A: Jonathan Russell from The Head and the Heart 2012-09-13T13:30:20Z

Because in Bach’s keyboard music the structure is visible, the same way in really good modern architecture form just follows function. Swapping Songs With Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

One night, Deon takes a decommissioned robot home and, after some Red Bull and energetic keyboard abuse, solves the problem of artificial intelligence. Review: ‘Chappie’: a Smart Robot in a Violent Future 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Ms. Apple and Mr. Drayton produced the new album together, making music largely from her piano and other keyboards, his drums and sounds they collected. Pop: Fiona Apple’s New Album, ‘The Idler Wheel’ 2012-05-30T12:00:00Z

The physical keyboards on BlackBerry's phones helped reshape the way that people used mobile devices. BlackBerry sues startup founded by Ryan Seacrest 2014-01-03T21:15:04Z

Certainly, sir,” she replied, tapping into her keyboard. ‘I liked going to New York as a drug trafficker’: Duane Jackson 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

Such passions are hardly what one would expect of this veteran keyboard noodler and twiddler of mixing desk knobs. Surrender. It's Brian Eno 2010-04-28T20:35:00Z

Four loud speakers on a tall pole on a grassy hill broadcast cheerful keyboard melodies. Art Review: ‘Light and Landscape’ at Storm King Art Center 2012-09-20T21:27:58Z

Here she leads a thicker quartet with saxophone, keyboards, drums and electronic samples. 2010-01-08T03:22:00Z

But when I sat down to dress this architecture in the million and one details and choices that are part of putting fingers to keyboard, writing a couple of crazy people started getting terribly personal. Delving deep for Norma's voice on 'Bates Motel' 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

To drive west, you press the left arrow on your keyboard; to go east, press the right arrow. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

So deep is my remembered shame that even now, sitting at my keyboard at the age of 43, I’m blushing. The Baby-Sitters Club Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Literary Fiction 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Instrumentally, the music sounds overly synthesized, with the band’s electric keyboard dominating its upright bass, reeds and percussion. Stephen Sondheim, experimenter. Listen to 'Pacific Overtures' and 'Forum' 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Chris would be playing his keyboard, and suddenly a trombone would come flying through the air. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z

During a typical lesson, Ms. Gustern would sit in an antique wooden chair on one side of the bed, a portable keyboard on the blanket before her. She Taught New York to Sing 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

While his eight employees peck away at their keyboards, Laffer does not use a computer, write emails or text. Tax-cut guru still says he’s right about Trump, Truss and trickle-down 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Bach, a keyboard and organ virtuoso, also played the violin professionally at the Weimar court as a young man, and later in his career he often performed as violinist with the ensembles he led. Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z

The music is also live, performed by the Afiara Quartet and Kid Koala on keyboards, electric ukulele, turntables, percussion and sound effects. Review: ‘Nufonia Must Fall’ Shares the Heart of Kid Koala’s Robot Tale 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

She used to play keyboards in the band and now focuses on electric guitar, which may account for the punchier underground-rock tone. Playlist : For Longtime Artists, Dawning of a New Day 2011-07-17T01:30:27Z

The strenuous piano writing eventually yields a slow, Sisyphean climb up the keyboard, not once but twice, the second trudge seeming merely repetitive and labored. Charlotte Hellekant and John Luther Adams at Spoleto USA 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

So, as I was a much better keyboardist than Andy at the time, I programmed the synths and played everything on the keyboards. How we made: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark on Enola Gay 2013-01-07T18:55:00Z

Neither Shostakovich’s counterpoint nor ideas have the inspired character of Bach’s keyboard preludes and fugues, but they come from a deep, dark, sonorous place that Levit revealed as only made possible by Bach’s inspiration. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

“No keyboard, nothing. You have to grow up with this music.” Cultured Traveler: Where Tanzania Taps Its Feet 2014-02-18T17:38:07Z

Mr. Lowe, who enlarged the band from a duo several years ago, sketched around the outsides of the music with guitar and keyboard notes and percussion, and established his presence as a second voice. Music Review: Om Plays Its Rhythmic Drones at the Temple of Dendur 2013-07-21T22:05:27Z

The quartet, illuminated from above as if caught in sunlight streaming through a high window, repeatedly played keening laments, at times joined by Ms. Anderson’s keyboard or electric violin. Music Review: Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet at Montclair State 2013-05-12T21:34:28Z

On a recent Friday, a man in a leopard-print vest sang north-eastern pop to a keyboard accompaniment, while children played football, but the fair also hosts major artists. A local’s guide to Rio de Janeiro: 10 top tips 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

His voice is less gimmicked, the keyboard chords are gospel and the vocals have the hip-hop flow of “Trapped in the Closet,” as Mr. Kelly attacks naysayers and shows he can sing again. New Music: New Albums by R. Kelly and Parmalee 2013-12-09T22:29:43Z

Allman, a singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player, will write about everything from the death of his brother, Duane; to his brief marriage to Cher to his drug and alcohol problems. Allman Brothers Band's Greg Allman has book deal 2011-05-19T22:38:08Z

The current orchestra features six string players, five winds/horns, and three keyboards; the mad “Phantom,” built on excess, wants more. A musical whose time has gone: Three Post critics take on ‘Phantom’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

“African Woman” was straightforward salsa, complete with horn-section keyboard sounds and Latin timbales. Music Review: Baaba Maal at Fillmore New York 2010-05-02T22:11:00Z

The new electronic panel, the five cascading keyboards and more than 200 stops were installed. Notre Dame's new pipe organ bears history's weight 2013-05-04T06:21:10Z

The festival's namesake of course figures highly here, with performances of his cello suites, the St. Matthew Passion and keyboard and violin partitas. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

The system unit, keyboard and monitor for the basic model, which cost $1,565, weighed 44 pounds, or 20 kilograms. Design: The Clunky PC That Started It All 2011-07-31T13:05:00Z

It will be interesting to see whether in 10 or 15 years the whole idea of a keyboard will seem strange. Design: Who Made That Escape Key? 2012-10-07T16:24:30Z

After the fox imagery mentioned earlier, he returns to the animal realm, insisting on his still broken heart: “I’m not the phoenix yet,” he moans over hammering percussion and wonky keyboard squiggles. Moonface's Heartbreaking Bravery: Love Hurts, But It Sure Sounds Good 2012-04-18T10:44:59Z

A starscape of echoey piano notes and a floating voice segued into the jaunty thump of house music for “Sing,” which revolves around a hopping little keyboard line. Music Review | Four Tet: A Musician, Machines and Room to Breathe 2010-02-19T05:19:00Z

Their assorted instruments include mandolin, saxophone, glockenspiel and recorder along with guitar and keyboards; their songs incorporate overlapping pop melodies, giant hollow programmed drumbeats and stretches of rapping. Finding the Joy at South by Southwest: 12 Notable Acts 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

He was a mighty virtuoso pianist who played with Glass and Reich in their early years while at the same time knocking out complex Ives scores on the keyboard. To introduce a newly discovered John Cage work, CalArts makes much of 'Minimalism means' 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Handel, he explained, was a more awkward writer for the keyboard than Bach. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The opening passages sounded like shrieks of dismay from the orchestra, punctuated by clattery attacks from the keyboard. A glistening 'Bluebeard's Castle' at Seattle Symphony 2012-05-16T16:45:06Z

Conducting three concertos from the keyboard, Mr. Kahane seemed less the star soloist than the empowering leader of a collaboration among gifted, eager artists. Review: ‘The public domain’ Beats the Heat and Humidity 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

Michael Riesman, Mr. Glass’s keyboardist and music director, produced a fresh orchestration, with lines originally played on electronic keyboards transferred to woodwinds and horns. Brad Lubman Revives Philip Glass?s ?Glassworks? 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

From there, the murk of keyboards, factory percussion and muffled voices grows only more oppressive. Album review: The Flaming Lips, 'The Terror' 2013-04-15T17:47:00Z

“Kai’s Song” is an electronic hymn, floating over sustained keyboard chords and digital drum sounds. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Wilson was center stage on keyboards all night. Brian Wilson earns standing ovation for song, career 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

It often seemed as if the composers were compensating for the violin’s single voice by yoking three together as if they were a single polyphonic instrument — a bow-driven keyboard, in a way. Music Review: Juilliard Baroque With Violin Music at Paul Hall - Review 2011-09-29T21:33:58Z

My favorite song on it is "Pretty Baby," a cutesy, minimalist keyboard number with a pensive streak. What our writers love this week 2011-01-19T22:47:04Z

Dinner was often a simple salad at the keyboard. Perspective | When food is your life (and work), losing weight is tricky business 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

About eight years ago, Parnell said, Mr. Manolides became a Christian and started playing keyboards at the Galilean Lutheran Church in Ocean Shores. Jimmy Manolides, a Seattle musician and art curator, dies at 76 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Amid the exuberant abuse of keyboards and such and the jolly three-part harmonies, there's a sorrow here connoting a longing for the carefree fun of youth – hence the past tense. We Were Evergreen 2012-05-22T16:57:39Z

Being able to use both hands on a screen, rather than being tethered to a mouse and keyboard, "transfers a bit more of your spirit into the technology you're using". Why the iPad and its mark a new stage in computing 2011-03-27T00:05:21Z

Only a great deal slower, as the keyboard is extremely annoying. Digested read: My iPad 2 by Gary Rosenzweig 2011-07-25T19:59:02Z

One summer Bruce Hornsby swung by Newport while on tour but enlisted his own keyboard player to tune his 9-foot Baldwin piano. Piano tuner marks 25th year at Newport jazz fest 2010-08-05T17:18:00Z

Ms. Anderson presided over the proceedings from a keyboard, and intermittently drew burnished, husky sounds from an electronic viola. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Yet each showy variation became not only a great show of technical prowess but of keyboard character. Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov creates a sensation in his L.A. recital debut at Disney Hall 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

People write “lol” online while sitting silently at their keyboards, and fans who think “I have a crush on Harry Styles” will instead write “I want Harry Styles to run me over with his car.” Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Modeling in a bedroom upstairs, Noll shows off a black and white jacket with a sort of piano keyboard pattern and black brocade pants. Another opening, another show: D.C. couple celebrate art with their wardrobe 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Allured is our favourite, though, showcasing Rivas's Lykke-ishly lovely, tremulous voice and featuring an aching chord sequence as well as a keyboard motif that approximates the sound of a trembling heart. New band of the day ? No 1,055: Elephant 2011-07-05T16:56:17Z

On “Blank Project” and onstage, Ms. Cherry was backed by RocketNumberNine — the brothers Ben Page on keyboards and electronics and Tom Page on drums — in arrangements that are stark yet complete. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Over a repeating, fuzzed-out keyboard figure, this multi-instrumentalist initially uses a mellow approach to vocals, suggestive of the gentler corners of indie rock. For Three Avant-Garde Musicians, It’s Time for Pop 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

In terms of evolution, Ghost embrace the melodramatic keyboard swirls and pompous arrangements of prog rock far more this time around; A somewhat risky step when glory beckons, butone that suits them. Ghost: Infestissumam – review 2013-04-11T21:00:01Z

Even when playing with a quartet in the busiest years of his career, he used the entire keyboard to symphonic effect — sounding like a solo pianist even as he left big patches of wide-open space. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wili’s contribution was “For Pauline,” a stagy, precious mix of incantation, ritualistic gestures and simplistic keyboard figures. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros Tribute at Darmstadt Essential Repertoire 2012-06-03T22:18:50Z

Sometimes, for convenience’s sake, I find myself trying to make do with the original keyboard for short stretches, aware of the limitations but determined to overcome them. Gene Weingarten: The keys to insanity 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

And they are inclined to omit punctuation, which requires the user to switch keyboard screens. Future Tense: On Internet Slang, IMHO 2014-03-28T19:52:44Z

Listen to enough music by Satoko Fujii — a pianist who refuses to limit herself to the keyboard, manipulating the strings inside the instrument whenever the moment calls for it — and the possibilities feel huge. Perspective | Jazz pianist Satoko Fujii is practicing the art of the possible 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Pachelbel’s Canon in D played on a keyboard as the bride walked down the aisle. Seeking a Driver’s License Led to a Marriage License 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Guitar, trumpet, piano, keyboard — they’ve all had nine million babies,” he continued. The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

In following years, he performs in subway stations with his keyboard, often feigning blindness to avoid arrest. R. Kelly’s life, from troubled talent to trafficking trial 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Among guitarists Mayfield, who also played bass, keyboards, drums and saxophone, continues to enjoy similarly high esteem. Recalling Curtis Mayfield, Soul’s ‘Genius of Gentleness’ 2012-07-19T21:57:14Z

“While they wouldn’t encounter a keyboard in the wild, the activity engages their sight, touch and hearing senses.” This video of otters playing the piano will warm your heart and hurt your ears 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

The lights were dimming, the overture was starting — the choked crash cymbal, the kick drum, the keyboard imitating electric piano and glockenspiel. Mission Impawsible: How Much ‘Cats’ Can a Person Take? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Piano lines dart about the keyboard and intertwine; the jagged rhythmic writing can be feisty or playful, jazzy or pensive. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Topol’s concert performances could be so furious that his fingers would bleed on the keyboard. Filip Topol, Rock Musician of Czech Revolution, Dies at 48 2013-06-26T03:31:05Z

I recall it not from a pool but from the piano keyboard. Connections: Triathlon Training With Chopin in Mind 2010-07-15T22:35:00Z

“To me, it’s refreshing to sometimes break with all the guitar songs to let the keyboards lead us,” Mr. Goldsmith said. Dawes Has Been Tied to the Past. The Band’s New Album Unlocks Its Future. 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

In interviews he has said that playing from memory is not the hardest part for him in performing Bach’s keyboard works, and I believe him. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z

A comet approaches, and night turns into morning, complete with achingly beautiful faux-birdsong, originally played both on flutes and primitive keyboards, and now reproduced by laptop. Kraftwerk – review 2013-02-10T00:06:14Z

Like LJ, he’s musically multitalented: in my band he sings, plays keyboard and guitar and often rearranges songs on the fly for acoustic performances. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

He did so under other identities: as a member of the studio group Plan V or the duo Ocio or with the keyboard player Daniel Melero. Gustavo Cerati, a Star of South America’s Pop Scene, Dies at 55 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

You frequently see soloists conducting from the keyboard or with violin in hand, joining a long tradition but not quite freeing themselves from their instrumental origins. Soloist-turned-conductor impresses with NSO’s Mahler 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Imagine a series of these chords up and down the keyboard, in such an unnatural position. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

And in the show, most of which she spent accompanying herself on guitar, with her musical director Russell Walden on keyboards, the politically engaged folk singer took precedence over the art singer of later years. Music Review: Judy Collins at Café Carlyle 2012-09-13T22:28:23Z

He mock-scolded his keyboard player after the ballads in the set list, blaming him for turning the night into “a B2K concert.” Started from the bottom, now he’s insufferable 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Almost immediately Shipp is holding the sustain pedal and blanketing the keyboard in a minor mode, and Bisio alternating between a low pedal and tension cords of notes on the higher strings. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Leal knows instinctively what another set of parents learned only after their then-teenage autistic daughter, Dana, learned to communicate by typing on a keyboard at a special program for autistic children in Austin, Texas. Motherlode Blog: Watching an Autistic Child Regress 2011-10-18T13:02:20Z

I only believe in fear; these are the words I tape to my keyboard after those first phone calls. Writing truthfully about my father: An act of resistance, an act of love​ ​ 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Many rock and jazz keyboard players quickly embraced the instrument for the flexibility and extra textural properties it offered. Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle 2012-05-23T10:54:12Z

Perhaps more unexpected was the fate of the Philharmonic’s old console, the command center of keyboards, pedals and stops where the organist sits and plays. Pipe Dreams: Will an Organ Roar in the New Geffen Hall? 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

Leading from a portative keyboard in front of the orchestra, he brought a beautifully blended sound from the 16 voices of the chorus, rich in dynamic variety and always sensitive to Bach’s piquant dissonances. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

At a concert in Amsterdam in the ’70s that was preceded by rowdy protests, a man stormed the stage and lunged for Mr. Glass’s keyboard. Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

If is a niche taste, then the piano/bass duo playing in the ballpark of the keyboard genius Bill Evans is a niche within a niche. Dave Green: Turn Left at Monday ? review 2011-02-03T22:16:00Z

However, I hear that while Assange can dance across a keyboard to liberate secret data, this does not make him a great writer. We still need books to make sense of Wikileaks 2011-02-02T14:38:09Z

And he has certainly proven himself with traditional programming, as when he conducted the 27 Mozart concertos from the keyboard over a single season with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra. A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

Antoine played keyboard in a rock band, hitchhiked from his father’s summer villa in Saint-Tropez to the nightclubs in town, watched “Seinfeld” on French cable and spent a lot of time at the movies. | At Berluti, Antoine Arnault Puts Business Before Pleasure 2013-09-12T08:00:08Z

In the first movement of Britten’s rarely heard Suite for Violin and Piano, Lebhardt tended to overshadow his violinist with a showmanlike touch at the keyboard. Review | Young Concert Artists presents local debut of a rising duo at the Kennedy Center 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

Unison notes on disparate keyboards sounded as one, ringing like distant bells, while at other times, the melodic material entwined so much that the two pianos became indistinguishable. Review | There’s no such thing as sibling rivalry for Naughton piano duo 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Cole’s assertive keyboards provide ballast, while Weiss’ drums – titanic and yet focused – often play fills and rolls so decisive they function like hooks or guitar riffs. Wild Flag: Year's first 4-star album 2011-09-09T05:14:00Z

“Good,” says the coach, dodging a mascara wand and a hot curling iron to play another note on his iPad keyboard. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Katy Perry 2014-01-22T17:08:52Z

O'Reilly is putting his money on sensors gathering information, rather than people entering information on a keyboard. SXSW 2011: Tim O'Reilly claims 'Reagan is the father of Foursquare' 2011-03-12T16:07:50Z

You hear the troubled edge in the music, mostly played by Roston on keyboard. Review | Solo actors capture dark and light in ‘Twisted Melodies’ and ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

Generally, the drummers occupied the left of the stage and the singers the right, with bass, keyboards and horns at the back. BomPlenazo Artists Collective at Hostos Community College 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

In five spontaneous interactions spanning an hour, Ms. Anderson offered simple electric-violin figurations and melodic sketches, often electronically altered and accompanied with sounds from two tiny keyboards. Music Review: Fred Frith Brings a Week’s Worth of Variety to the Stone 2013-08-29T20:38:08Z

He explained its practical applications to me as designing DVD menus and cell phone keyboard layouts. Music Monday: Perfume Genius, Chocolate Chuck, OC Notes and Rik Rude 2010-08-09T20:13:00Z

And there is a keyboard in his office and cooking space, which he plays on for inspiration as he dreams up his menus. How Brooklyn Avenue Pizza Company is fighting gentrification while honoring Boyle Height's past 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

They use guitars, drums and keyboards that were played live in studios, then manipulated and tweaked to Boots’ surreal taste. After His Coup With Beyoncé, Boots Strides Out of the Shadows 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

What they heard was a keyboard artist whose technique is only one of the many weapons in his arsenal. Pianist Lang Lang, once dubbed ‘Bang Bang’ for his flashy technique, brings exquisite refinement to Seattle Symphony concert 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

But what stays with you most is Mr. Weiss’s pearly sound and polished, unhurried phrasing in these graceful miniature masterpieces of keyboard music. Classical Playlist: Dvorak, Haydn, Monteverdi and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

There were keyboard instruments onstage, too: worn spinet and baby-grand pianos, and a pump organ. Music Review: Strumming Solo, With the Reverb of a Full Band 2011-04-25T21:59:38Z

Tuned metal keys are arranged – in the same layout as a piano keyboard – above a resonance chamber, so striking the keys with a mallet produces a bright, high-pitched ringing tone. Hey, what's that sound: Glockenspiel 2010-04-26T15:56:00Z

Over stark, sustained keyboard chords, she sings “Straight to the ER/While I bled on your car”; the driver asks, “It wasn’t mine, right?” Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring for Piano, Four Hands,” with Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss performing, closed the evening with a keyboard explosion that drew an instant standing ovation. Seattle Chamber Music Society summer fest ends on high note 2013-07-27T21:19:21Z

Barnatan goes beyond the mellifluous surface of Ravel's masterpiece to lure you into a whole plush keyboard world. Critics' Picks: Pianist Barnatan's 'Gaspard de la nuit' on new CD 2012-07-18T22:11:04Z

Brennan said students will get the opportunity to learn to sing or play guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. Alice Cooper kicks off South Dakota rock academy 2012-10-11T01:16:10Z

A brilliant engineering Ph.D. at the University of Delaware, Westerman worked on multitouch in part because he suffered from severe repetitive strain injury, which made conventional keyboard interfaces agony. The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here’s the Story of Its Birth. 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

The drone tones in “Sax Solfa” underlie saxophone lines and loops, darting and rippling keyboards and bursts of gibberish vocal syllables, surfacing like anxieties no meditation can dispel. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Take Control, and 10 More New Songs 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Basically we had a drum track, we had a bass track, we had a couple guitar tracks and we had a keyboard track or two. Fleetwood Mac is “the great American story” 2013-06-03T19:02:00Z

But there were flashes in which he hurriedly pecked the keyboard as if jaded and exasperated, understandably dropping notes along the way. ‘I Just Let Myself Go’: Igor Levit on Surviving a Satie Marathon 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

I arrayed small bowls around my computer, being careful not to drop any sticky or granular substances on my keyboard. Airbnb’s worldwide experiences adapt to the times and move online 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

In writing this now, I just paused to remember how I felt that night, and what I did to get out of the cycle — suddenly my left arm is off the keyboard and I’m pulling. My secret hair pulling 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z

In Ms. Wolfe’s brief, moodily atmospheric “Earring,” a repeating, rhythmically steady, slowly descending figure played at the top of the keyboard creates a crystalline, jangling backdrop for a gentle, midrange melody. Music Review: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church - review 2011-08-26T22:30:32Z

The opening Scarlatti set which, like the Liszt works that concluded the program, involved a lot of hand-crossing and leaps up and down the keyboard was muscular and athletic as well as graceful and delicate. Taxes forgotten, Meany crowd welcomes André Watts 2014-04-16T18:56:41Z

While Mr. Charlap bore down on the keyboard, Ms. Stewart, smiling ominously, raised her voice and delivered it as a threat. Music Review: Sandy Stewart and Bill Charlap at Feinstein’s 2012-11-21T22:15:31Z

I played keyboard and bass, and played guitar on two songs. The Superbly Original, Gloriously Weird B-52’s Say Farewell to the Road 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

Wave upon wave of oceanic orchestral sounds — swirling strings, arpeggiated harps, droning brass and winds, the whitecap shimmer of multiple harps, bells, marimbas, vibraphones and keyboards — momentously evoked the Pacific. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The sound of a keyboard echoed through the rafters. ‘Just Epic’: Foo Fighters Bring Arena Rock Back, to the Vaccinated 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

That record feels like the template for the formidable and lush “Pilot Talk,” full of braying guitars, seductive, plangent keyboards and crisp drums, and purportedly free of samples. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Korn, Currensy and Tom Jones 2010-07-26T00:05:00Z

The haze was in much of the music itself: a lavish application of reverb and distortion, of feedback and noise, of watery keyboard sounds and echoey, indecipherable vocals. Critic?s Notebook: At CMJ Music Marathon, a Glut of Bands and a Haze of Music 2011-10-23T23:43:16Z

The cohort’s parties champion sets played on physical hardware—think keyboards, samplers and sequencers—and this edition features a deep lineup of local producers and DJs playing innovative, truly live techno. Your week in Seattle music: Patti Smith, E-40 and more 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Nearly all the keyboard timbres come from one family: rich, rounded tones with a little bit of buzz at the edge, akin to Radiohead songs like “Kid A.” New Music: The Debut of Ultraísta, and ‘Glad Rag Doll’ by Diana Krall 2012-10-01T21:36:40Z

At the climax of Glacier, Grant just sits on his keyboard stool facing centre stage, nodding away, while the band carry this song about personal geology to its grand conclusion. John Grant – review 2013-05-18T15:00:03Z

When psychologists today talk of the danger for the next generation of too much keyboard and texting time, Socrates would have flashed one of his infuriating "I told you so" smiles. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z

“Pictures” is every bit a keyboard showcase as Ravel’s famous orchestration is for orchestra. Vladimir Feltsman, formidable pianist in program of Schumann, Mussorgsky 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

For the moment, it’s the external keyboard for me. Gene Weingarten: The keys to insanity 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

He writes at the keyboard – he's a fine pianist too – often exploring ideas at first through improvisation before notating them, whereas others only write "in their head". Lulu; Huw Watkins day – review 2013-02-17T00:06:20Z

One of our most searching and consequential players of Bach continues her “Bach Odyssey,” a multiyear project devoted to the composer’s complete keyboard works. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

To tour for the first record, he enlisted Alan Wyffels, whom he had met at therapy meetings, to accompany him on keyboards. An Aggressive New Album From Perfume Genius 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Working with her array of keyboards and samples, hers is a physical and occasionally theatrical performance, as she spins the many plates of her music: vocal samples, keyboards, and chaotic drum patterns. This week's new live music 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

When Mr. Ryback takes center stage to untie one of the knots in the plot, Mr. Blumenkrantz works the keyboard with equal finesse. Theater Review: In the Musical ‘Murder for Two,’ One Man Is Many Suspects 2013-07-26T02:00:01Z

These snippets of song — delivered in tight close-up and accompanied by an electronic keyboard — encompass a full range of pandemic reactions, though always with a comic veneer. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

“It seems that the Trump era will basically control-Z everything that happened on Obama’s watch,” he said, referring to the “undo” keyboard command. John Oliver on net neutrality: 'Every internet group needs to come together' 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

The Social Network's Zuckerberg behaves in real life as many of us do on the keyboard. Life Zucks 2010-10-18T10:21:00Z

The complaint contends that Typo Products' keyboard for recent iPhone models illegally copies technology and designs that BlackBerry pioneered years ago for its line of smartphones. BlackBerry sues startup founded by Ryan Seacrest 2014-01-03T21:15:04Z

Mr. Wonder sat by himself at a keyboard under a tent in the courtyard and sang to the crowd, as Mr. Obama sat, riveted, his hand on his chin. At Fund-Raisers, $35,800 to Meet the President 2011-09-30T22:18:41Z

Heavy on the keyboard shimmer, with the accent on light. New band of the day – Youth Lagoon (No 1,441) 2013-01-29T16:26:12Z

We watch Kennicott, as if over his shoulder at the keyboard, struggle with the technical challenges inherent in the Goldbergs. Review | In ‘Counterpoint,’ a memoirist reflects on love, loss and Bach 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

He instead seeks out traditional instruments and low-end keyboards, records them and then builds melodies and chords from the tones they yield. Pop: Benny Blanco, Hit Maker for Rihanna and Maroon 5 2013-01-05T05:03:03Z

Over an ambling arpeggio, a melodic chord progression pads softly in the background and hi-hats ripple dramatically, wrapping the central sound of the song, a keyboard octave that reads as a repeated gleam. Music Monday: Jarv Dee, Basic, Kanye West 2010-08-16T18:24:00Z

Whether it's different vocal treatments or keyboards or even just air. My Morning Jacket get nostalgic on "Circuital" 2011-05-30T14:28:20Z

"If they won't be the detectives, then I will," Anna says while typing away on her keyboard and thoughtfully staring at her computer. For Kristen Bell it's always wine o'clock in new psychological thriller spoof "Woman in the House" 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Like many of the songs on the album, “IRM” juxtaposes severity and dreaminess, with a keyboard chiming above the blare of the MRI samples. 2010-01-23T15:48:00Z

Such economy of motion at the keyboard was fascinating to watch. Yuja Wang and the Russian National Orchestra perform in Northridge 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Yorke introduces a mournful melody over a smoother keyboard line and drumming that’s apparently sampled, though the track is far more varied than most brief, repetitive drum loops. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

The song, expertly rhyming, is anchored to a very simple, almost novelty keyboard riff, with a baritone hummed hook propelling it; once you hear it, you never forget it. R.I.P, the list pop song: Missing the lost art of rock ‘n’ roll lyrical overload 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

He sits on a straight-backed chair rather than a piano bench, and his physical gestures at the keyboard are economical and focused, almost matter-of-fact. 2010-02-03T22:56:00Z

At the office, everyone keeps their password under the keyboard. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: A healthy label 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

“It sold more than any other Davis album, and fully launched jazz-rock with its multiple keyboards, electronic guitars, static beats and clutter. Davis’s music became progressively trendy and dismal.” 53 Years After Miles Davis’s Album, a Fresh Spin as ‘London Brew’ 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

It takes a dancer's foot a fraction of a second longer to touch the ground than it does pianist's finger to hit a keyboard in "Piano Phase." Dance review: 'Fase' a mesmerizing Minimalism map to Steve Reich's music 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

When the authorities clamped down on him, he subversively turned to "harmless" early music and period keyboards, in the process unearthing long-forgotten wild music, some from Russia's past. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

The boys' training in classical music and theory would influence Van Halen's guitar playing, particularly the famous two-handed, finger tapping technique, where harmonic ideas derived from the keyboard found new expression on the electric guitar. With his signature guitar style, Eddie Van Halen changed rock music 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Marchese described, in addition to guitars, drum kits and keyboards, road cases full of stage equipment, lighting trusses. Prince, via his possessions: 7,000 and counting 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

The song kicks off on a chilled-out vibe with a muffled keyboard melody, then quickly turns into a psychedlic anxiety attack, shot through with manic blips, smeared static and auxiliary tinny/buzzy melodies. Ladies and gentlemen, Seattle's Keyboard Kid is floating in space 2010-07-21T21:31:00Z

Long-time blogger Andrew Sullivan is stepping away from the keyboard after 15 years of daily blogging. Andrew Sullivan Calls It Quits, But The Dish Should Go On 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

If that means that more of their time is spent noodling around on the keyboard or watching old movies or just talking with their friends than mastering trigonometry, then I say, whatever. Why I'm OK with my kids "falling behind" in school during the pandemic 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z

Dylan brought in two other studio musicians, Paul Griffin on keyboards and Buddy Cage on pedal steel guitar, to add ghostly overlays. On ‘More Blood, More Tracks,’ Familiar Bob Dylan Songs Cut Closer to the Bone 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

“His technique is somewhat unorthodox,” Mr. Eriksen said, “as he almost never plays the keyboards but throws in weird samples and alters them to the right pitch to go with the song.” Pop: Benny Blanco, Hit Maker for Rihanna and Maroon 5 2013-01-05T05:03:03Z

Each key, Lefebvre said, is like a letter on a computer keyboard. Notre Dame's new pipe organ bears history's weight 2013-05-04T06:21:10Z

But these are people who'll say anything from behind a keyboard – and then in real life they want their photo with you.' Rylan Clark on The X Factor, death threats and being seen as a fame-hungry diva 2012-12-16T20:00:00Z

Dessner, who plays guitar and keyboard in The National, pushed them into new territory, sampling upbeat melodies and stripped-back guitar tones. Local Natives: 'better than ever' 2013-01-30T08:37:00Z

“I took my index finger and ‘dum-dum-dum,’” she said, jabbing an imaginary keyboard and singing some syncopated low notes. Laura Mvula Set Her Sound Free. It Ended Up in the ’80s. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

Bidini started playing a broken electronic keyboard his father brought home when he was 4. Fabio Bidini, 'last teacher' to Colburn School's pianists, thrives 'inside the music' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

They do not eat at their desks, sprinkling keyboards with crumbs, but dine in groups in the office’s sleek canteen. Tyler Br?l?: Mr. Zeitgeist 2012-01-04T23:56:43Z

All of them are designed for a vocal quartet, singing solo, duets or as a group, and the piano accompaniments to the Spanische Liebeslieder require four hands at one keyboard, too. Schumann: Spanisches Liederspiel etc 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z

It's performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble – with the composer himself at the keyboard. Edinburgh festival 2013: our critics' picks 2013-07-15T05:59:01Z

Get It Right is based around one of the giddiest keyboard riffs you'll ever hear. Hidden treasures: Palladium – The Way It's Not 2013-03-26T16:31:00Z

It was uncomfortably silent apart from the occasional paper shuffle or short flurry of keyboard clicks. The monster myth: What I learned from seeing my wife’s killer in court 2014-04-28T23:00:00Z

Joachim Garraud, from France, removed some of the standard chordal cushioning and played live keyboard lines to give his trance a hint of frenzy. Music Review: Electric Zoo 2011, Dance Festival on Randalls Island 2011-09-04T22:47:17Z

The Mark-11 version has two keyboards, 35 keys each side, with a control-panel above – you can hear it on 60s classic tracks such as Strawberry Fields Forever and Nights in White Satin. From goat's testicles to the waterphone: cinema's unlikely soundtracks 2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

"Treat Me Like Train Tracks" has a more nervous, interior, psychological feel, with an anxious, tapping beat, arco bass and warbling keyboard. Kanye, Jay-Z head the list of new CDs 2011-08-22T22:12:30Z

Very charmingly, Mr. Karoui drew our attention to Tchaikovsky’s striking and anachronistic effects of instrumentation and, remarkably, of dynamics in the composer’s orchestral setting of four keyboard pieces by Mozart. Dance Review: Balanchine?s Riffs on Petipa, and Tchaikovsky?s Riffs on Mozart 2011-01-21T23:14:02Z

Taking over the piano from the evening’s musical director, Ross Patterson, she played and sang ’s “What’ll I Do?” in a soft, wistful voice accompanied by delicate keyboard figures that suggested a music box. Music Review: At the Broadway Cabaret Festival, Kooks and Cutups 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

Anonymous: I’m typing this around my jaw, which is on my keyboard. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She’s off to college, and her grandmother wants to tag along 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

He plays guitar and drums and kalimba, and I play a bass, a guitar, a Wurlitzer and a little keyboard I stole off my daughter. Martina Topley Bird: 'I played Boggle till 4am the other night. Is that rock'n'roll enough for you?' 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Featuring a slow-build keyboard and fingersnapped opening, the rapper, 27, jumped in with percussive, confident lines from a number of different perspectives. Kendrick Lamar debuts new song as last 'Colbert Report' musical guest 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

The work is the same, but the distinction between the sleek, modern keyboard sounds, and those on the recorded track, yields a new measure of contrapuntal clarity. Music Review: Continuing a Continuing Story by Renewing His Early New Music 2011-07-01T22:24:00Z

Only One features soft, slow verses sung by an AutoTuned West as Paul McCartney tinkers on the keyboard. Kanye West’s Only One Isn’t Very Good, but It Is Selling 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

BlackBerry still sells phones with physical keyboards that the company now says are being cloned by Typo Products. BlackBerry sues startup founded by Ryan Seacrest 2014-01-03T21:15:04Z

These 11 artists don’t make prints simply by pushing a pair of buttons on a computer keyboard. In the galleries: Exhibition explores the art of mentoring 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

It's a keyboard powered by water and it makes this strange watery sound. These New Puritans: a band like no other 2010-10-07T21:59:00Z

Two recitals this week — one wonderful, one not — set a listener to thinking about keyboards, their composers and their players. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

He is playing Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins and his sonatas for violin and keyboard, a Brahms chamber concert and the violin concertos of Berg, Beethoven and Dvorak. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

But, he said, it was clear that Mozart conducted from the keyboard when performing his piano concertos or leading his operas. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z

The next year she recorded the album that would become her 2012 4AD debut, “Visions,” in her bedroom with a keyboard, computer, computer interface and microphone – a few hundred dollars worth of gear. Grimes: from goth-ballerina to electro-pop artist 2012-10-17T20:36:00Z

"The Ambassador" defies categorization as it soars from story to story and building to building on sonic wings made of strings, keyboards, bass, guitar and piano. Gabriel Kahane's moving love letter to L.A., 'The Ambassador' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

She was content to play keyboards and contribute harmonies as a member of Taylor’s band. Carole King’s musical odyssey 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Reviews of their live show — hitting Bonnaroo Friday night — match the buzz surrounding their debut album, The Bones of What You Believe, and Mayberry’s delicate voice sails over their full array of keyboards. PLAYLIST: The 14 Coolest Bands of Bonnaroo 2014 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Jarrett's message from the keyboard took off from the small enclave of an informed and dedicated minority audience, and reached the huge worldwide constituency of listeners. 50 great moments in jazz: Keith Jarrett's The K?ln Concert 2011-01-31T16:47:44Z

Mr. Rosenwinkel played a tremulous repetition at the keyboard, around which a deep unison arose: double bass, bowed, and bass clarinet, faintly brayed. Music Review: Mining His Vault: Kurt Rosenwinkel at Village Vanguard 2010-06-24T21:21:00Z

Seated behind a keyboard, he appeared more physically comfortable than he’d been all night. Music Review: Frank Ocean at the Bowery Ballroom - Review 2011-11-29T22:17:45Z

“I would just kind of freak out onstage, play the keyboard,” she said. A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Over the next two years, he would pull off a breathtaking act of reinvention, disbanding his lauded quintet in favour of electrically charged line-ups using two drummers, two bass players and two, even three, keyboards. The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z

Then, she asked him to stay onstage for the next song, and he headed back to a keyboard to play on “Liability,” another elegantly scathed song from “Melodrama” Lorde sang with sweet melancholy. Review: In a Big Room, Lorde Protects the Small Moments 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Written in 1979, her Symphony No. 2 begins with a pianist traversing the length of the keyboard, hammering tone clusters, with punctuation coming in the form of massive bass drum hits. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

It's a fantasy romance about a lonely, blocked novelist who channels his yearning into the typewriter keyboard and magics a gorgeous female character into real life. Ruby Sparks – review 2012-10-11T19:25:01Z

Sometimes I wonder whether I wasted the small chunk of my career spent at the computer keyboard thinking and writing about Michael Jackson, usually on deadline. Review | A devastating and credible ‘Leaving Neverland’ will turn you off Michael Jackson for good 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

“What serious pianist would prefer an electronic keyboard to a refined Steinway or a piano by any other excellent builder?” said Paul Jacobs, the chairman of the Juilliard School’s organ department. Pipe Dreams: Will an Organ Roar in the New Geffen Hall? 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

Journalists honed in on the archetype of eccentric genius, recycling the details of his absurdly low posture at the keyboard and the old sawn-off chair that allowed him to maintain it. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z

As ever, she straddled her bench and switched between keyboards, often playing both simultaneously, and delivering every note, tremble, gasp and whisper with a dramatic flourish. Tori Amos at Constitution Hall: Playing to the house, to wild success

After intermission, Douglas and Camerata Ireland offered a lightweight, gently nuanced reading of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, Douglas leading from the keyboard, facing in to the orchestra. From ‘Danny Boy’ to uilleann pipes: A showcase of Irish music 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Now in his late 60s, Koopman continues to present a gently unassuming figure at the keyboard, directing proceedings with a light control. Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Koopman – review 2012-06-11T16:55:02Z

But on your face, Not in my keyboard. Social Q?s: Social Q?s: Lonely Hearts Club Ban 2010-08-05T22:31:00Z

She really knows the keyboard and excels at social media now. Parents break rule to help young kids join Facebook 2011-12-20T20:57:04Z

On Monday, Mr. Andsnes and the ensemble offer Beethoven’s second, third and fourth concertos, with Mr. Andsnes conducting from the keyboard. For This Musician, the Time Has Come 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

Then, four songs in, there's a technical problem with the keyboard and they seem to disappear. SXSW music festival: Iggy Pop, Haim and The-Dream 2013-03-14T15:15:59Z

Ms. Muhl wrote, sang and played guitar, bass and keyboards on the album. Meet Charlotte Kemp Muhl, a Rock Star in the Making 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Moreover, clad in black and tossing his shoulder-length locks as he swayed histrionically over the keyboard, Liszt too was addicted to playing his part in this communal rapture. Piano man 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Silvery at the top of the keyboard near the end of Beethoven’s second movement, Mr. Schiff handled poignantly the musical line’s drift back downward. Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

He set up his keyboard, placed a framed photo of himself atop, and started playing his current hit “Papaoutai.” Stromae in New York 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

It would be printed in the sheet, and then I would read about who did percussion, who did the keyboards, where was it recorded, and who did they reference, who did they thank. Did the Internet kill Amy Winehouse? The director of a heartbreaking new documentary on the rise and fall of a “digital girl” 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

For one thing, the often-distorted keyboards of Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Taborn — both also play acoustic piano on the album — handle much of the heavy riffing. Dan Weiss’s Starebaby Mines the Loud Ground Where Jazz and Metal Meet 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Strings bend and recede around him, keyboards stab and Questlove navigates, as the singer turns a femme fatale into a terrorist. Costello, Roots an uneasy alliance 2013-09-13T21:08:00Z

Setting questions of technique and scholarship aside, there is also an unease, especially in his keyboard performances. Playing Bach, Was He a Pioneer or a Reactionary? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

People may not think of Murray Perahia, that poet of the keyboard, as a dazzling virtuoso type. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z

Bach half was the Double Harpsichord Concerto in F major, with Koopman and Mathot playing side by side at their twin keyboards. Review: Koopman, SSO go for Baroque 2011-05-14T17:08:05Z

Dragon was once a keyboard player for the Beach Boys. Love Couldn’t Keep Captain & Tennille Together 2014-01-23T01:17:54Z

Mr. Goldberg set up across the way, armed with two tiny red amps, a keyboard and a guitar. Music Shows With a Brooklyn Feel, but Getting to Them Is a Hike 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The most-viewed YouTube videos featured a cat playing keyboard, a hamster eating popcorn on a piano, and cartoon unicorns luring another unicorn into Candy Mountain to steal their kidneys. This chaotic duo sounds like nothing and everything you’ve ever heard 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier roams through jazz and romantic music on the keyboard, but also plucks, bangs and scrapes every surface of her instrument. Israel Galván – review 2013-03-26T18:11:27Z

For the Crumb work, Ms. Dinnerstein spoke from the stage, alerting the audience to what she would be doing inside the piano — plucking, strumming and muting the strings — as well as on the keyboard. Simone Dinnerstein, the Pianist, Goes Beyond Bach at the Met 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Her third album, The Deep Field, sees the 40-year-old embracing her rockier side; slinking between keyboard and guitar in a leather jumpsuit, she is more Joan Jett than Joan of Arc. Joan as Police Woman ? review 2011-02-08T18:15:55Z

Life is not just black and white like my keyboard. A Russian Pianist Speaks Out Against the War From Home 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Rather, from time to time as he paced he seemed more interested in his musical workstation -- a computer and a keyboard/sampler. Earl Sweatshirt stakes claim as a producer on new album 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Walking in Northampton, Moore explains that his old keyboards have ended up on eBay, or in that museum in Charleroi, because he has had to decommission so many of them. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z

With the help of electronics, the piano keyboard became extended in several pieces. Aron Kallay experiments, triumphs in Piano Spheres' 'Nothing Is Real' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

"It was a laborious process, because he was literally playing the keyboards with two or three fingers," Porter said. The soulful revenge of "Last Christmas," Wham!'s potent yuletide breakup song 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Yet it all seemed so easy; the pianist hardly looked at his hands or the keyboard, all the while negotiating this difficult program with an accuracy that nudged up against the impossible. Pianist Jan Lisiecki: Extremely talented and incredibly young 2012-02-09T17:55:04Z

The introduction sets up the familiar groove with its static harmony, pulsing bass and keyboard riff. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

He will perform Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, conducting from the keyboard. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z

The musing is oblique: There are no shots of bleary-eyed e-mail addicts slumped over keyboards, for instance. Artists contemplate the isolation of the Internet era through photographs 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

A sophisticated piano-bar wit, Eric Comstock, on keyboard, plays the unflappably suave saloon dandy tossing off laments like “Everything Happens to Me” with an attitude of rueful amusement. Music Review: Donning Sinatra?s Mystique, From Movie Sailor to Saloon Dandy 2010-09-01T21:56:00Z

As in any first-person shooter game, you use the mouse to look around your surroundings, and the keyboard to move, while holding a big gun. Video Game Review: In Hey Baby, Street Wolves Meet Their Match 2010-06-07T22:22:00Z

His caliber of keyboard brilliance had not often been encountered in blues, his early 1950s recording of Clarence "Pinetop" Smith's showpiece "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" establishing his reputation and giving him his famous nickname. Blues musician "Pinetop" Perkins dies at 97 2011-03-22T00:39:00Z

“Swimming Blind,” a new piece, opened with mysterious, gloomy rumbles and restless jitters before eventually cohering around a twinkling keyboard figure into a stately seven-beat melody. Music Review: New Kids: One Behaved, One, Eh 2011-05-27T20:51:08Z

Instead of guitars, pointillistic keyboards build the tension in many of the songs. Lorde Rules a Year-End List 2013-12-13T18:39:26Z

But the introspective, melancholy tone of Buniatishvili’s playing — her exquisite touch at the keyboard, coupled with a warm yet lonely sound — encourages a deeper interpretation of the film. Khatia Buniatishvili brings Chopin program to UW 2013-02-28T23:50:09Z

Fortunately, I have just now obtained an external keyboard, which bypasses the broken one, and which I have on my desk, to the right of my laptop. Gene Weingarten: The keys to insanity 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

The band’s lineup changed over the years, but its instrumentation and sound remained basically the same: a solid, driving groove provided by guitar, keyboards, bass and drums, punctuated by staccato blasts from a horn section. Leroy Bonner of the Ohio Players Dies at 69 2013-01-29T04:53:02Z

Where Ms. Collins usually divides her shows into two sections, the first on guitar, the second on piano, Tuesday’s program was mostly guitar based with her musical director Russell Walden filling in on keyboard. Music Review: Judy Collins at Caf? Carlyle: Folk Days to 9/11 2010-05-05T22:44:00Z

The band's name refers to the keyboard shortcut for a delta on Macs. Alt-J / The Maccabees – review 2012-10-27T23:17:15Z

Live, joined by a DJ, a drummer and keyboards, the pair played a set that leaned heavily on their debut. The Pharcyde – review 2012-07-19T17:15:01Z

Early in the night the two played several of their best songs with a live band: a keyboard player, a bassist and a drummer. Music Review: Rap Duo Heads Back to the Stage, Granting No Compromises (or Smiles) 2011-05-13T22:45:09Z

For one false cadence, he leaned into the keyboard so that the dissonant chord seemed to result from his palm’s accidentally pressing down on the keys. Music Review: Soheil Nasseri, Running the Gamut at Merkin Hall 2013-09-04T21:09:01Z

“Touha” proceeds in irregular flurries of keyboard activity and overlapping shards of melody, gradually interwoven with distant drones and glissandos and sporadic patterings of percussion. Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

The laptop pieces, though, were entirely as engaging as the acoustic ones — Rolnick played them from a keyboard, with the laptop set up behind it — as well as nicely contrasting. Performance at Atlas made a good case for new music. Too bad no one heard it. 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

They play solid, intense techno, but use neither decks nor machines: every sound is performed live, using drum pads and sampling keyboards. Brandt Brauer Frick say you can get (slightly) jiggy with it 2011-08-04T21:30:03Z

Bent over his keyboard, Snaith's silhouette is that of a superstar DJ. Caribou ? review 2011-02-24T18:12:57Z

They mix Latin grooves with great melody lines, sparkling keyboards and the heritage of early-90s strident indie guitars. February's best music from across the MAP 2013-02-15T09:17:22Z

Even though I still only type with one finger, and I have to look at the keyboard. David Sedaris on his new book, 'Theft by Finding' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

"I died a week ago," he sang at the outset of "The Wheel," but the clickety-clack percussion and jabbing keyboards kept him buoyant as the closely packed fans swayed. SXSW 2013 Day 2: Sohn, No Ceremony///, Flume 2013-03-14T06:48:00Z

When her partner switches to the mouth bow near the end, the stakes shoot up, and Ms. Rosenbloom ranges far up the keyboard, matching his vim. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The nine-person orchestra — guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, some mournful strings — stays silent, too. ‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Gerstein’s recording is an admirable achievement, but it does not quite transcend Liszt’s keyboard acrobatics to reach a higher plane of musical ­expression. Recordings in review: the Transcendental Études, twice. ​ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Mr. Albright sailed through Chopin’s Opus 25 Études with a jaw-dropping technique, his hands blurring over the keyboard in No. 10, “Octaves,” and making easy work of the thirds in No. 6. Music Review: Young Hands Tackling Chopin?s Intimidating ?tudes 2011-03-09T22:47:17Z

He has performed his share of concertos with orchestras; a Naïve recording offers elegant accounts of two Mozart concertos, with Mr. Greilsammer conducting the Suedama Ensemble from the keyboard. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

In this world, we understand that people will write exclusively on keyboards. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z

You can watch the show, read the recap, listen to the podcast and post your own responses, using whatever screens and keyboards are at your disposal. The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now? 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

But then the keyboard player said, 'Let's stop in Thailand on the way back'. Seal: The reluctant pop star 2010-09-16T22:00:00Z

As Brown fractured and reinvented well-known melodies, Pickens applied characteristic galvanic force to the keyboard. 'A Christmas Surprise' from Tammy McCann, thanks to Billy Strayhorn 2010-12-19T13:24:00Z

“Canto Ostinato,” a keyboard piece by the Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt made of overlapping layers and repeated patterns, has amassed a cult following — in the Netherlands, at least. The Minimalist Composer Who Keeps Getting Left Out 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

I Wish it was Christmas today – the classic song with the Casio keyboard that anyone can figure out with Tracy Morgan dancing in the most hilarious way. The ultimate “SNL” Christmas: Every brilliant holiday sketch from the last four decades 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

As for the specimens without keyboards, they were the very first portables. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Click! Clack! Ding! The American Typewriter’ at the New Britain Museum of American Art 2014-04-27T00:23:07Z

Whatever its origins, the @ appeared on the keyboard of the first typewriter, the American Underwood, in 1885 and was used, mostly in accounting documents, as shorthand for “at the rate of.” Design: Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem 2010-03-21T15:52:00Z

Ms. Wasner harmonizes with herself and brings in auxiliary guitars, intricate or distorted; the keyboards join the counterpoint. Music: Listening to Sia Tolno, Wye Oak, Etta James and Givers 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z

They highlight Beethoven’s virtuosity as a keyboard player — the early models showing the influence of Mozart, the later sonatas breaking new ground. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z

“Bloom” doesn’t significantly alter the duo’s approach: shivering slide guitars, shimmering keyboards, muted percussion, Legrand’s disembodied voice floating in a thick haze of wordless backing harmonies. Album review: Beach House, 'Bloom' 2012-05-14T14:53:00Z

Father and son, on keyboard and guitar, joined Kronos for the premiere of Gyan Riley's gently lyric "the first pancake," dedicated to his mother, Ann, whose birthday is a few days before her husband's. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Marling sings with lean, responsive accompaniment: cello, violin, keyboards, bass and drums. Review: On Laura Marling’s ‘Short Movie,’ Songs of Restlessness and Solitude 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

I’m calling it for his early hit “Ant Music,” on the basis of the dancing girl wearing a keyboard shirt. The most totally new wave music videos of all time 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

At their core, Ron's virtuoso keyboards buoy Russell's bold and operatic vocals, although the Sparks sound then morphs and evolves depending on styles and eras. Sparks talk new album, ever-growing fanbase: "Our audiences are pretty accepting of eccentricities" 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

No one at the Republic of Pie is losing it — the screenwriters keep pecking at their keyboards, the waitresses keep slinging slices of apple and blueberry. Daniel Radcliffe hopes the magic is gone and he'll be taken seriously 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

“Nevermind” chugs calmly into earshot with a terse bass vamp from a keyboard and a single muffled drum playing only the beat. Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

It is as if Fellner is apologising for the unfortunate necessity of his presence at the keyboard. Till Fellner – review 2013-06-26T16:59:42Z

Emotionally, Mr. Ocean finds loneliness instead of redemption, expressed in spare guitars, keyboards, static, noise and outsourced exasperation. The Lonely Toil of Frank Ocean: Is It Art, or Denial? 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

During one song, his tie fell off and he had to keep playing while it snaked around the keyboard. Neil Hannon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

“Serynade,” a halting, ghostly procession of tones and chords sustained and shaded through elaborate keyboard and pedal techniques, demonstrated Mr. Greenberg’s heroic dexterity. Music Review: Piano by Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum 2014-03-26T20:59:42Z

Then Tim puts down a keyboard part and I get a temporary vocal from Daniel. Q&A with Burt Bacharach: How the 92-year-old composer has kept working during the pandemic 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The brutal efficiency of their hits and the dated keyboard sounds threaten to become wearying at times. Roxette – review 2012-07-05T14:39:29Z

Part of this enduring adoration stems from the music, of course; the moody, intimate production and keyboard textures are similar to the approach of many modern bands. Why Tears for Fears deserves Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

We see Prince’s microphone and keyboards in the control room. Prince’s former studio and residence in Minnesota now is open as a museum 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

That is a crucial question, and a source of valuable dramatic tension, for the keyboard stretches far and wide, and miscalculation by a millimetre has the potential for disaster. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

It’s hard for me now, sitting at this keyboard, to describe how exciting all of this was — yes, even to a cadet at West Point. The Village Voice and me: The untold story of how I became a writer 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

As the train travelled west, and the southern New England shoreline swept past her window, her index fingers pecked at her keyboards and screens as she rushed to scan and respond. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

No doubt, however, many in the audience couldn't help remembering Shangrow at the keyboard. Orchestra presents first concert since founder George Shangrow's death 2010-10-11T19:33:00Z

Three pieces from Glassworks and an extract from The Photographer saw her using a keyboard to sing harmonies with herself and sounding like a choir of angels. Philip Glass – review 2012-12-16T18:15:01Z

But the onetime Ornette Coleman collaborator also embraced other channels, often playing percussion and keyboards, and eventually leading large ensembles in spiritual excursions. Complete Eric B. & Rakim, a Fresh Look at Wire and a Whole Lotta Guns N’ Roses 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

But I looked at my son, happy, hands flying over the keyboard, talking and laughing with his new friend, and realized, I didn't care. Motherlode Blog: Four Hours of Screen Time? No Problem 2012-11-16T17:35:09Z

There are 10,000 keyboard players breaking their fingers trying to do what he did. Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle 2012-05-23T10:54:12Z

Bach, whose solo keyboard “Italian Concerto” and Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord are on the program. A controversial harpsichordist? The adventurous Mahan Esfahani makes his Seattle Symphony debut 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

There were two drummers on trap sets, two percussionists playing Afro-Cuban instruments, two bass players, two guitarists and three keyboard players. ArtsBeat: Leader of Jazz at Lincoln Center Steps Down 2012-04-19T06:17:36Z

It will also feature a new work by Mr. Tomasson set to a keyboard suite by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Helgi Tomasson to Step Down at San Francisco Ballet 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

Playing and conducting from the keyboard, he performed the two concertos on tour and recorded them in 1999. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z

He dove back and forth with Mr. Fonseca, who dashed up and down his keyboard like a gazelle. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Dacus referred to her as a "guitar wizard," noting that Baker schleps around a giant pedalboard and played most of the other instruments on the Boygenius record — keyboard, mandolin, you name it. Julien Baker questioned her faith. Music helped her embrace the uncertainty. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

When I sat down at my keyboard after a few days of emotionally curling up on the basement floor, I wanted to write something imbued with meaning. Newtown is my hometown 2012-12-19T17:29:00Z

That starts with the piano’s first entrance, a few minutes into the piece, which goes arpeggiating up and down the keyboard, over and over and over. Pianist Ohlsson brings elegance to a whiz-bang performance of massive Busoni

It’s an instrumental with a vaguely Asian keyboard motif, drum syncopations that clarify and recede into quiet thuds, one-syllable vocal snippets, rhythmic breathing and a constantly recalibrated sense of tension. The Playlist: Calle 13’s Residente Goes Globe-Trotting and Slowdive Cruises Back 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Backed by Christian Thomé on drums and electronics, Ms. Sadovska moved between acoustic instruments — harmonium, jaw harp — and her own keyboards and electronics. Globalfest Showcases the Sounds and Traditions of World Music 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

The initial delight was over the hopelessly amateurish cover versions of pop classics such as Every Breath You Take and I Should Be So Lucky, delivered with clanking banjos and misfiring portable keyboards. I can't believe Frank's gone 2010-06-22T08:45:00Z

Highlights include the thought-provoking Is This What God Wants, and Falling Stars with it's great heavy neo-prog instrumental break featuring one of Eyre's few keyboard solos and an incredible guitar solo from by Adrian Jones. Readers' reviews: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Riversea 2012-08-29T14:07:29Z

"There's a certain fashion of histrionics of the keyboard which is completely foreign to what I do," the 52-year-old Montreal native, whose father was a pharmacist and amateur pianist, told Reuters over lunch in London. Pianist Hamelin breathes new life into "dead" composers 2013-11-14T08:05:00Z

Schumann's cycle of brief piano pieces posits a musical/philosophical showdown between two fictional characters of the composer's own creation that, Denk felt, demanded a slightly schizoid keyboard touch. Free Seattle chamber-music recitals can be worth their weight in gold 2012-07-06T23:15:05Z

Over a foundational pedal tone in the lower strings, textural fragments — brushed percussion, a piano played both inside the instrument and at the keyboard — come and go as if by chance. Review: A Guest Conductor Reveals the Philharmonic’s Potential 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Here it happened during a keyboard solo on “Togo,” over a gyrating single chord. 2010-01-08T03:49:00Z

Big waves of Wesner guitar wash over Andy Stack’s drumming and keyboard playing – yes, he does them simultaneously, with left hand on the keys and right hand keeping time. Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z

Over the last two decades, all my keyboard works have been composed for Aimard. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

The music, led by Jerome at the keyboards and sometimes on tenor sax, is terrific. Review: Staging a Movie Melodrama in ‘The Conversationalists’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Amid flashing gold lights on the percussion and keyboard stands, she approached the microphone borne on the shoulders of two men in loincloths. Donna Summer: 'the audience was groaning worse than I was' ? a classic interview from the vaults 2012-05-17T18:30:01Z

All the same, he had written and recorded his last album, “You Want It Darker,” in his small living room, where he kept a keyboard synthesizer, a couple of guitars, and a studio-quality microphone. Leonard Cohen and the Divine Voice 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

In works of Maurice Ravel, Olivier Messiaen and Tristan Murail, the keyboard control was impressive but too much of the same. Herbert Schuch is a good pianist, but he inspires more questions than answers 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

To me, it's a big difference between just playing a keyboard and playing it with pitch-bending and vibrato so that it's expressive. Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle 2012-05-23T10:54:12Z

Not sure White Socks Flip Flops sounds sartorially advisable, but Super Furry Animals pull it off thanks to wibbly 70s keyboards and a winning groove. Readers recommend: songs about clothes – results 2012-07-19T14:05:28Z

Martinez is a tangle of hair and energy as he alternates between flopping over his keyboard and bending over his guitar. Chicano Batman wins over crowds with unique, psychedelic sound 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

His keyboard quirks, and her beseeching soul tones, lithe-at-65 dancefloor strutting and devious phrasing – she dances up to resolving notes by the most unexpected routes – banish almost every hint of the formulaic. Doug Carn/Jean Carne – review 2012-06-24T17:30:01Z

Ham also played the saxophone and keyboards, and more recently worked as a guitar teacher. Men at Work musician Greg Ham found dead 2012-04-19T12:07:12Z

Aesthetically, it is a strange beast; futuristic black, ultra-clean, with a keyboard made from black silicon – it looks as if it were beamed to Earth from a fetish club in the future. The must-have piano? 2013-03-10T19:30:03Z

Sofer also composed the haunting and jazzy music the two performers sing and play on keyboard, clarinet and guitar. A man, a bird - and the winsome pair who play them - yield a useful message 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

The fifth and longest prelude begins with improvisatory caution, then moves to somber, sepulchral depths, with taps at the left end of the keyboard setting off forlorn high fragments on the right. Music Review: Gilles Vonsattel Performs at Bargemusic 2014-04-20T21:33:19Z

He sat under purple and red lights at the baby grand, which had a small electronic keyboard on top of it. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

It remained an obscure keyboard character until 1971 when an American programmer, Raymond Tomlinson, added it to the address of the first e-mail message to be sent from one computer to another. Design: Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem 2010-03-21T15:52:00Z

Later, after a couple of months doing little else but opening box after box of these wonders, I was seated in front of the paintings with keyboard, minidisc recorder, mixer and headphones. How Turner's paintings inspired jazz composer Tim Whitehead's new record 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z

Later, the band's recently added keyboard player, Jordan Fish, will say that after every show he wonders where Sykes – so quietly spoken, so still – finds the energy. Bring Me The Horizon: 'We'll never sell out arenas' 2013-04-04T16:46:35Z

My fingers drummed lightly on the keyboard when the phone rang, momentarily interrupting my espionage. The end of my snooping 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Granduciel is singer, songwriter, producer and lead guitarist and probably played many of the original keyboard parts that on stage are handled by as many as three of his cohorts. Review | The War on Drugs: Layers, textures and an up-to-date take on psychedelic rock 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Or maybe it's the twinkly keyboards that ground it not only geographically but also musically to this area. Portland playlist from Justin Ringle 2013-05-24T23:10:32Z

But instead of reviving Pops Staples’ barbed-wire guitar riff, the arrangement lathered on the keyboards and horns. Mavis Staples rescues her own tribute concert 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

“From the get-go, I was thinking about two flutes, two violins, two cellos, two keyboards and two drums, which turned into three drums,” Mr. Mazurek said of the new album. Rob Mazurek’s Intergalactic Jazz Aims for a New Dimension 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Money Mark's vintage keyboards spread grease over the hard-hitting if uncomplicated beats. Beastie Boys cut nostalgia with beats, humor 2011-04-29T16:25:21Z

“When I play a song, the keyboard is the highway for me,” Braxton said. Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

In preference to watching my hands on the keyboard, she seemed to be watching me as I did the repeat: Dah Dah Doo Dah Dah Dah Dah Dah Doo Dah La Ti Mi Fa La So Fa Mi 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Metallic-looking piano keyboards, musical notes and a vast recording-studio control console twist and churn. Nam June Paik at the Whitney: A Work of Dizzying Complexity 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The morris dancers are, instead, cavorting to a closing psychedelic jam so heavy that keyboard and guitar player Lavinia Blackwall's flowery purple dress starts to move like a lava lamp. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and the Cairo Gang; Trembling Bells 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

The magic moment comes in opener I Didn't See It Coming; heralded by a juggernaut of a keyboard riff, Stuart Murdoch explodes from the shadows, pleading: "Make me dance, I want to surrender." Belle and Sebastian: Write About Love 2010-10-07T21:20:00Z

Opening track Harm in Change thrillingly layers clean piano, distorted keyboards, crisp percussive snaps, low-end drum rolls, inarticulate female moans and a vocal that grows more urgent by the minute. Toro y Moi: Anything in Return – review 2013-01-17T22:14:02Z

All the while Mr. Blake remained stately at his keyboard, avoiding the groove. Music Review: Beat After Beat, by the Book 2011-03-15T22:18:13Z

Lambert's stage was bare — empty except for the essentials like keyboards and drums — so he drew on his charisma to fill it. Adam Lambert worth waiting for at The Puyallup Fair 2010-09-22T21:30:00Z

“Just Kids” trades the rustic for the ethereal; her multiplied voice hovers amid keyboards and strings, as if to prove she’s still willing to experiment. Playlist: New Music From Smashing Pumpkins and Neil Young 2012-06-29T20:01:40Z

The album features arrangements that emphasize keyboards over guitars and redefines frontman Alex Turner — once known for wordy, speedy delivery that was talked as much as sung — as a crooner. Review | British rockers Arctic Monkeys find their way to the Wharf 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

As for protean, there are those many musical worlds he inhabits as composer, saxophonist and keyboard player. A protean John Zorn musical marathon at LACMA and UCLA 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Along with Geoff Mann on vocals and Rick Battersby on keyboards, the band played their early shows at Reading venues like The Target, Cherries Wine Bar, the Top Rank, and around the University campus. Rockers reunion 2010-04-27T08:47:00Z

The group’s members — Joshua Redman on tenor and soprano saxophones; Aaron Parks on piano, organ and keyboards; Matt Penman on bass; and Eric Harland on drums — share the responsibility for that sleight of hand. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-25T21:59:41Z

Late in the evening, Anything Could Happen does provide one ray of positivity whose elements – keyboard shimmer, topline melody, synth hook – do, finally, all pull together. Haim; Ellie Goulding – review 2012-09-29T23:05:37Z

While healing, I try to avoid it, but when I accidentally hold a pen in my usual fashion, or inadvertently use that finger to type an “L” or “O” on the keyboard, it throbs. When I hit a girl 2014-04-09T23:00:00Z

The set list includes piano-heavy acts like The Doors and Yes, and you can liven up all your old downloaded tracks by playing the guitar or bass parts on the keyboard. Review: 'Rock Band 3' hits all the right notes 2010-10-26T21:32:00Z

His jacket lapel Thursday was ornamented with I'm not sure what, but the pianist looked to be draped in a bejeweled keyboard. Pianist Yundi adds some flair, but his Beethoven still lacks drama at Bowl 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

From the very first note, he so radically changed the atmospheric pressure in the hall, it was as if he had packed a keyboard bomb cyclone in his suitcase. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Pierce Turner, a piano-playing Irish songwriter with tinges of opera and Joni Mitchell, sang his “Yogi With a Broken Heart,” joined by Mr. Glass on keyboard. Music Review | Tibet House Benefit: Boisterous Bliss in Celebration of an Iron Tiger Year 2010-03-01T05:55:00Z

"Royals" was a revelation upon its release, an ascetic pop song built around crisp snaps, intricate vocal arrangements and minimal keyboards, all anchored by Lorde's worldly vocals. The top 15 modern rock #1 hits that actually stand the test of time 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Stephen Hough seems to have reached a plateau where his colossal keyboard mastery is beyond doubt. Stephen Hough – review 2012-10-10T14:25:13Z

Apart from keyboard player Chris Pemberton, who hails from Coventry, Grant has multiple Icelandic names to get through, dense with exotic polysyllables. John Grant – review 2013-05-18T15:00:03Z

He learned how to play keyboard and use the recording software Logic Pro X at a young age, and uploaded his first amateur beat to YouTube when he was 7. Kid Krono Wrote Music for Kanye West Between Classes 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Not only did these artists incorporate new keyboard technology, but they also took a futuristic view of music construction. In defense of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

And for the three-and-a-half minutes it’s on, with its rocket-ship keyboards, juicy funk groove and Lynn’s mighty, muscled introductory ooh yeah, the only conversation I want to have is with this song. Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

The production included musical performances by former "American Idol" runner-up David Archuleta, a keyboard ensemble called the Piano Guys and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. More than 1,000 nativity scene performers vie for world record in Utah 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Concert pianists never need an excuse to program plenty of Liszt, that titan of the keyboard who composed some of the showiest — and most difficult — music ever written for the piano. Garrick Ohlsson performs a superb night of Liszt in Seattle 2012-03-08T17:57:04Z

Even better, when the case is open, it holds the iPad and keyboard together like a laptop. Noticed: Affordable iPad Cases, or Not So 2011-06-08T21:03:09Z

He opened the post-9/11 Concert for New York seated cross-legged and alone on the stage, playing a dinky keyboard and singing Paul Simon's "America," albeit as an ode for a bygone nation. 'David Bowie Is': How do you fit a rocker into an art museum? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

They were intellectuals, or creative gnomes, hunched over keyboards, who flourished in their feverish imaginations. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z

Mad Catz has also developed an $80 keyboard for "Rock Band 3," and it adds a whole new dimension to group play. Review: 'Rock Band 3' hits all the right notes 2010-10-26T21:32:00Z

BlackBerry is seeking unspecified damages and a court order that would prevent Typo Products from selling the keyboard without a licensing agreement. BlackBerry sues startup founded by Ryan Seacrest 2014-01-03T21:15:04Z

When he turns to his keyboard and plays, he's no less delightful. Van Dyke Parks – review 2013-05-07T18:08:24Z

They are quite remarkable, in that most of them don't sound like transcriptions at all but suggest original Bach keyboard music played on a modern piano. D'Albert: Complete Bach Transcriptions/D'Albert: Symphony in F major; Seejungfr?ulein 2010-04-08T22:35:00Z

He opened and closed the keyboard lid three times — but didn't play a sound. 'Where the Heart Beats': Zen Buddhism and the music of John Cage 2012-07-11T19:53:04Z

Acoustic instruments gleam, with unearthly keyboards and electric guitars billowing up around them. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z

They are playing all the notes from the book, but they’re playing them all over the keyboard. How to Solve the Stephen King Adaptation Puzzle 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

In the years that follow, he performs in Chicago’s subway stations full time with his Casio keyboard, often pretending he was blind to avoid arrest. Timeline of R. Kelly’s life, lurid rumor to criminal charges 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Instead, Perez spaced chords beautifully across the range of the keyboard and embellished lines with high-register filigree in his right hand, hinting at the theme without stating it explicitly. The provocative pianism of Danilo Perez 2011-04-22T14:03:00Z

A training in the conventions of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart encourages a relatively limited view of the physical possibilities of one's hands at the keyboard, Michener argues. Xenakis: So what does a wiggly line sound like? 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z

Remarkably, almost all of these writers are still pounding the keyboards, which means that their female detectives are still pounding the pavements. Essay: In mysteries, does the trail grow cold when the detective grows old? 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

For centuries, people had been looking for a keyboard instrument that would hit bells. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

On Saturday, however, Wilson led proceedings from a bench at a white grand piano — in place of the electronic keyboard he's often used in concert — which immediately telegraphed that he was musically home again. An assertive Brian Wilson surveys beloved hits at Greek Theatre 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

His core band will include Isaiah Sharkey on guitar, Ben Williams on bass, James Francies on keyboards and Mike Mitchell on drums. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Order The Official 2013 Sugar Hut Honeys Calendar from globalcalendars.co.uk Photograph: Andrew Milligan 1 Electric keyboard I have a baby grand in my posh house. Celebrity Christmas wish lists 2012-12-21T17:00:00Z

Kathleen Wright, an independent educational consultant, said: “Writing focuses your attention on the task at hand. You tend to write slower by hand than you type on a keyboard.” Anonymous Stories for the Instagram Age 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

No one can sweep the keyboard more flamboyantly or powerfully than he, and he did so here with relative dispatch. Review: The Philharmonic Revisits an Early Triumph of Its Director 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Kronstadt’s ruling on Thursday noted the similarity of various hooks in both songs, bass lines, keyboard parts, vocal lines and elements of both songs’ melodic and harmonic composition. Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams lose first round in 'Blurred Lines' case 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Is this what the students hear when Tendler slams his forearms on the keyboard or fiddles under the lid of the piano like a mechanic under a car’s hood? Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Video evidence, a pitch pipe and an online keyboard suggest that she reached A-natural — two of them. ArtsBeat: With Renée Fleming, Super Bowl XLVIII Gets an Operatic Opening 2014-02-03T04:04:19Z

Mr. Cale stood behind a keyboard and a laptop, accompanied by a full band and a string quartet. At Paris Exhibition, Tracing the Roots of the Velvet Underground 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

The Manchester-based quartet cram prog rock, math rock, art rock, quirky time signatures and 1980s keyboard stabs into a complex, frenetic sound. NME Radar Tour 2010-04-30T21:05:00Z

"It was my fingers that tapped away on the keyboard but he would read and make comments on my work." Family romances: When relatives write together 2010-09-24T12:02:00Z

It is time to add some mid-range colour: a lead guitarist, a keyboard player, backing singers, perhaps a flautist for that unexpected prog-rock interlude. How to eat: tuna salad 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

He became the AP’s Washington bureau chief and the wire service’s executive editor and vice president, but he always returned to the keyboard, and to covering politics. Pulitzer winner Walter Mears, AP’s ‘Boy on the Bus,’ dies 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

It's hard not to be swept up in the spirit watching Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent perform, switching off on guitars, harmonicas, a keyboard and makeshift drum set with tambourine attached. Country duo Shovels & Rope's joyful approach 2013-03-22T15:21:08Z

The Doctor plays less piano and more electric keyboards, which means he’s less inclined to draw on his tourist-friendly Professor Longhair mannerisms. Album review: Dr. John, 'Locked Down' ✭✭✭ 1/2 2012-04-01T23:26:00Z

The frenetic keyboard starts for "All My Friends," and the entire arena cheers. The Last Concert: Indie Icons LCD Soundsystem Bid a Brilliant, Bizarre Adieu 2011-04-04T10:15:00Z

Ms. Barnett sticks to the indie-rock basics of guitars, bass and drums, with a keyboard now and then, and it’s all the palette she needs. Courtney Barnett Faces Doubts and Doubters on ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Early on, they'd play on the floor in front of the stage, unloading a strange web of effects pedals, budget keyboards and peculiar electronic paraphernalia. Fuck Buttons, the kings of noise 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z

As the evening winds its way on, the band are locked on and increasingly sublime – drummer Jason Trammell galumphing along, auxiliary keyboard player Ahmed Gallab looking sharp in a white suit, everyone contributing vocals. Yeasayer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

The recording of the song that is to be included on the new album is an unfinished demo, recorded on an iPad, using Apple’s GarageBand program and an electronic keyboard. Posthumous Album by Robin Gibb to Be Released 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Chicago, and its keyboardist Robert Lamm, are the reasons “I learned the black keys on a keyboard.” Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

In all other countries we use the keyboard with synthetic, ie man-made material key tops.'' Ivory keys on Bechstein Louis XV piano dismay environmentalists 2013-06-07T17:22:53Z

A small keyboard and a microphone sat on a table. From Natalie Merchant, a Literary Tour 2010-04-16T19:06:00Z

I didn't storm over the film editor's desk and pour pink paint on his keyboard or anything, but to me it's about as perfect a Hollywood movie as anything else ever. Watch Mulholland Drive: live! 2010-10-03T17:27:00Z

Sullivan Fortner, a pianist born in New Orleans, has an extravagant amount of talent and a hyperactive flow on the keyboard. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

It matters when you see Anton Nel lean into the string ensemble from the piano bench as he decides exactly which touch will best support them from his more powerful keyboard. Seattle chamber-music fest proves the little things among the notes mean a lot 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

For that to continue, CTG will have to convince a new generation that failing boldly together is more nourishing and satisfying than succeeding alone with our keyboards, touchscreens and remote controls. Center Theatre Group's starry 50th: From offending Ronald Reagan to Trump-era provocations 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

And “pancake”? That’s the image of a player leaning over the keyboard with arms outstretched, flat like a pancake. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

In the end, four people attended, two of them bar staff, the other two friends of Oscar , our keyboard player. The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011-08-04T22:00:01Z

Both works stretch the group’s classic-rock influences to absorb the adventurousness of Steely Dan and the sleekness of Dire Straits, greatly aided by keyboard work from the recently added Mr. Pardini. Dawes Has Been Tied to the Past. The Band’s New Album Unlocks Its Future. 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Other aspects, perhaps surprisingly, are more complicated with a keyboard than they are with a pencil. How Disney's Positioning Moana as the Ultimate Anti-Princess 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

“In terms of serendipity, there was this Jackson 5 song on the record, ‘ABC,’ played on different days, one time on the keyboard, another on slap bass,” he said. What does Guitar Center sound like? These guys secretly recorded customers to find out. 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Early reviews have described "Scratch My Back" as a poignant, contemplative album that is stripped down to the essentials, featuring just Gabriel's voice accompanied by chamber instruments as well as brass and keyboards. 2010-02-15T17:33:00Z

After the keyboard is connected to a laptop or other device with the software, a chord might, for example, trigger a metronome and create an unexpected pulse. Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

The final gesture comes as a surprise: a sudden, brilliant cascade from opposite ends of the keyboard toward the center, a carillon from the beyond. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

“The funny thing is, I don’t think most people understood what we were doing — they thought it was samples and keyboards and stuff,” Droman says. “He could be brash; he could be harsh. He was very motivated”: The real story behind Fleetwood Mac’s “Tango in the Night” 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

He conducted chamber orchestras, and Mozart concertos from the keyboard, and in his late teens began working as a repetiteur — the opera rehearsal assistant position that was the main root of old-school conducting careers. A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

The CD cover features the young Carpenter swooning over a keyboard while rocking a wife-beater and a Mohawk. Anthony Newman ready to 'wow' on Disney Hall's 'Hurricane Mama' organ 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

Spoon played some of those, with "Me and the Bean" sounding especially good, its keyboard and guitar hooks as bright as on the song's recorded version. Concert review: Spoon at the Moore 04/10/10 2010-04-11T01:54:00Z

Using a keyboard to change the pitch of recorded cicada sounds, participants will create their own works, recorded on the tiny modules found in musical greeting cards. A Quirky Design Fair Finds a New Home: Governors Island 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

In this space, his drumming tended to drown out the skittish electronic squeaks and bursts of keyboard riffs from Mr. Rosenboom. Review: ‘David Rosenboom: Propositional Music,’ an Avatar of Experimentalism 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

The Strokes had spawned hundreds of tribute acts: keyboards floundered while Telecasters thrived. Metric: the band putting angst on the agenda 2012-06-25T16:59:01Z

During this show she used the microphone sparingly, focusing instead on her keyboard, which she used in two modes. Music Review: Keyboard Speaks Louder Than a Microphone 2011-06-20T21:56:23Z

Arched low over the keyboard, with curtains of white hair framing his still-boyish face, Mr. Sakamoto offered four further selections from that album. Music Review: Sylvan Sounds, Meant to Be Seen 2010-10-19T22:05:00Z

The New Deal, a keyboard-bass-drums trio, percolated through blipping, upbeat instrumentals with the unswerving tempo and dynamics of digital loops, only to rupture the illusion now and then with an outburst of noisy keyboard improvisation. The Hudson Project, Cut Short by a (Real) Tempest 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Kissin played it with a fluency that made it appear easy, with filigree flights seemingly aimed somewhere beyond the right-hand end of the keyboard, and negotiated with miraculous skill. Evgeny Kissin ? review 2011-02-15T19:10:04Z

She brought a lean backup band — keyboards, bass, drums — augmented with some recorded backup vocals, but she didn’t need any electronic help. Seinabo Sey Unfurls Soul-Pop Vocals at Le Poisson Rouge 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

There are different notes on the the keyboard it can hit now. Justin Theroux on the 'Spiritual' New Season of 'The Leftovers' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

In his downtime, Mr. Mitchell would write songs in a notebook and play them on his keyboard. Jake Paul Promised Them Fame. Was It Worth the Price? 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

There are elements of Ravel and early Messiaen in the keyboard writing. Humble virtuoso Mark Robson's piano weaves his highly personal tales 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

She typed out an email to seven other writers: “Yo. Can we meet up next week? I have something that I kinda semi-urently” — the g key on her keyboard was broken — “need help on.” Conversations With Friends (Who Are Also Writers) 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Hough's generous sense of keyboard history ensured there was nothing antiquarian about his restrained playing of three Byrd keyboard pieces. Hough/Endellion Quartet – review 2012-06-07T17:15:01Z

But the main melodic phrase from “I Feel Love” sounds like it’s being played on the Korg keyboard that anchors “Break My Soul,” subtly tying two eras together in a third one. Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Embodies Decades of Dance Music. Here’s a Guide. 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

She played for laughs, but also for real, garnering fair reviews for her keyboard technique. Phyllis Diller 2012-08-21T17:39:18Z

I Googled the dimensions of a keyboard, drew the keys on to a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. Experience: I learned to play the piano without a piano 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Adès, an accomplished pianist, pays tribute to Chopin by writing modern-day, harmonically spiky, rhythmically fractured mazurkas that imaginatively span the keyboard. 2010-02-11T23:33:00Z

And in recent decades, quite a few have also broken with the shift keys on their keyboards. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

And the credits of most songs reveal that Clark not only sings and plays guitar, as he does onstage, but also supplies keyboards and programming, abetted by a drummer and a bassist. Gary Clark Jr. Finds a 21st-Century Blues Spirit on ‘This Land’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

An upright-bass line threads through a grid of handclaps, syncopated drum beats and keyboard blips. Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z

It’s an elaborately tentative construction of drums, keyboards, phantom orchestration and vocals wafting in all around, incantatory without exact repetition. The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

The pianist Dave Burrell sat onstage at Roulette on Wednesday, his sizable frame stooped over the keyboard with a combination of studious grace and earnest fascination. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

The chorus, with its clipped keyboard phrases and enthusiastic handclaps, ranks alongside Weather Report’s main “Birdland” theme as one of the catchiest moment in fusion history. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

An especially arresting detail: the pianist’s hands are completely exposed and available for viewing; they flit about the keyboard like dancers on a stage. Art Review: I Just Popped Out to Play Beethoven 2010-12-09T23:57:00Z

“Back in the day, we had three guitars and a keyboard, so that’s all strings,” he told the website Premier Guitar in 2017. Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist, Dies at 71 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

More than one song opened with sustained, hymnlike keyboard chords as she unfurled her voice, treating a verse like a spiritual. Seinabo Sey Unfurls Soul-Pop Vocals at Le Poisson Rouge 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Jack Garratt, from Britain, performed as a one-man band using keyboards and samples to bombard his emotive voice with dance beats. SXSW: From Exclusive Performances to Cellphone Souvenirs 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Without a drumbeat — just guitars, bass, keyboards and stacked vocal harmonies that look back to the Beach Boys — Barrie pushes away unwanted advances with far more sweetness than they deserve. The Weeknd’s ‘Avatar’ Anthem, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Before that taped episode, the singer Imani Uzuri chanted “1, 2, 3, 4” in steady, syncopated patterns over the rollicking keyboard of “Blue” Gene Tyranny. Music Review: ?That Morning Thing? at the Kitchen for Performa 11 - Review 2011-11-23T23:38:54Z

The story of those two sessions, which Steinberg and two other participants, the keyboard player George Pavlis and the bassist T. M. Stevens, have discussed, could be a terrific movie in itself. Kind of Clichéd: How the Miles Davis Movie Could Have Been Better 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Ezhokina's supple sway on the keyboards dovetailed beautifully with Singer's protean precision on the cello. In Leavenworth, the hills come alive with the sounds of chamber music 2011-07-15T20:42:37Z

But I recorded Joe singing and then I played a little melody on a keyboard, making a little loop that became the song. Music Producers Explain How They Created a Hit 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

There’s no decor, just a desk at one end and a keyboard and monitor at the other. Perspective | Michael Tilson Thomas was once the ‘bad boy of classical music.’ Now, at 74, he still conducts with childlike delight. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

In “See What She Seeing,” a song about joyful infatuation, the percussion sputtered fitfully instead of providing a beat, while keyboard and guitar effects made chords waver in pitch instead of providing a dependable backdrop. Music Review: David Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors Do ‘Swing Lo Magellan’ 2012-07-10T22:16:36Z

Barenboim conducted the Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor from the keyboard, and it was magnificent. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Ariel shouted, "You hate me," stormed off into the wings, and returned to crouch, smoking under a keyboard, as his band played on. Ariel Pink: he's out there, on his own 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

At Kenny’s Castaways there’s a balcony, promising more sightlines, but there’s also a Fender Rhodes keyboard instead of a piano, which became a cool nuisance: it made so many bands sound similar. Critic?s Notebook: Jammed Sessions Abound at a Village Jazz Festival 2011-01-10T00:00:16Z

The University of Washington piano professor and concert-hall veteran delivers the second installment in his keyboard celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of French composer Claude Debussy. A&E highlights: Jazz, whales and the Spring Fair in Puyallup 2013-04-10T18:17:53Z

That was the sixth National Jazz and Blues festival at Windsor in the summer of 1966, when I was keyboard player in a band called Bluesology. Elton John: 'Bestival seems to be a people's festival' 2013-01-30T21:00:03Z

Even in the most stylistically attuned hands, Liszt’s Ballade No. 2 in B Minor risks coming across as overwrought, and Fujita’s traversals of the keyboard sounded superficial rather than splashy. Review: A Young Pianist Finds His Way to Carnegie Hall 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

She also wrote many of her songs and played keyboard on several of them. K.T. Oslin, country singer of ‘80’s Ladies,’ dies at 78 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

Yet since this is Adams, each number is inventively written, rhythmically fiendish and expertly played here by a small ensemble dominated by electric guitar, sax, clarinet, keyboards and drumkit. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Visitors to the website use a computer mouse or keyboard to move through a replica of a long gallery with a wood floor, dark walls and dim, recessed lighting. An Online Museum Shows Life During Wartime 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

Bach’s keyboard suites should leap off the page and tickle the ear. CD reviews: A cellist’s solo “Trance.” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

That meant that for an hour and a half, he shuffled back and forth among about a dozen keyboards and other instruments, including a theremin, remaking his music live. A Masked Sbtrkt Performs at Terminal 5 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

At the Atlas, he will perform “a little bit of accordion, a little bit of organ, a little bit of keyboards,” Mergia said. A photo exhibit at the Embassy of Switzerland depicts victims of war

He sings relatively short phrases, allowing the keyboard riffs to fill the space at the end of each phrase. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

You went down from two keyboard players in Rare Bird to one in Fields. You Must Hear This! Fields’ debut album 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The conductor and pianist Leonid Kreutzer conducted Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto from the keyboard; “I thought that was amazing,” Ozawa says. Ozawa: A pioneer who dedicated his life to Western music 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Under a disco ball that dangled from barnlike rafters, Spencer Burrows, the energetic lead singer of the band Frobeck, bounced up and down behind his keyboards. Next Stop: Food and Art in Sebastopol, California 2011-10-21T18:50:00Z

Many of the beats here are borrowed from songs of that day — MF Doom, Lord Finesse, even the British melancholic Lewis Parker — that are full of warm keyboards, turntable scratches and tart snares. Playlist: New Releases From Friends, Wade Bowen and Joey Badass 2012-07-27T16:00:00Z

One series of clips captures a co-worker's tiny turtle crawling across his computer keyboard. Scam Likely: The scruffy "Telemarketers" asks us to pay attention to those calls we'd rather ignore 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z

With Ms. Cherry, the songs often start with a skeletal beat and just a note or a bass line from the keyboards, then darken and thicken as they go. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Appearing with the New York Philharmonic a few weeks ago, she returned to the keyboard no fewer than three times. Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

Your own deaths will be frequent, though instant restarts add a welcome "arcade" flair to gameplay, and the superior PlayStation controls improve handling and reduce frustration over mouse and keyboard. Hotline Miami – review 2013-07-13T23:05:11Z

In all of this, pianist Wendy Chen was a true collaborative artist, with a broad range of delicate touch at the keyboard to enrich Ueno’s tone. Flutist Seiya Ueno’s local debut performance sells itself 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The performances were unremarkable except for in the concerto, with Mr. Bronfman’s seemingly effortless romps up and down the keyboard and Eric Bartlett’s fine cello solos. Review: The New York Philharmonic and a Quilt of Composers 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Guests later enjoyed what seemed like a concert at the reception by the band Sound House by Elan Artists, with four lead singers, three horns, keyboard, guitar, bass, drums and Latin percussion. The One-Night Stand That Went on Forever 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

By the end, heavy-breathing screams break up the electronic pulse, before being buried beneath a dark cloud of keyboards. Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z

“Seventh Heaven” juxtaposes thoughts of euphoric love and disillusionment — “We shoot for the empire/Land in the dust pile” — amid shimmering keyboards, skeins of intertwined guitars and ever more buoyant choruses. The Playlist: Mavis Staples Warns of Deadly Force, and 9 More New Songs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

And yet the result is similar, in its relentless virtuosity, its employment of the extremes of the keyboard, its unpredictable changes of speed and dynamic, to some of the most systematised music ever conceived. A guide to John Cage's music 2012-08-13T12:13:37Z

And Putner as a karaoke singer waiting, and waiting, for a keyboard solo to end is among the funniest spectacles on the fringe. Inglorious Stereo 2010-08-12T15:22:00Z

Drums, bass, strings and keyboards answered her cries. Disco Queen Donna Summer endured after era faded 2012-05-18T10:35:09Z

The piece is Schoenberg’s homage to Bach’s keyboard suites, complete with prelude, gavotte, musette and gigue. Finding Brahms in Schoenberg 2010-10-08T15:44:00Z

At services, he played the drums, his sister played keyboard, and his father was the minister. John Boyega Won’t Let Go of ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Coming to America’ 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

But then Stevie did something I never saw him do – he came out and played opera for about an hour on his keyboard. Bobby Womack on Glastonbury: 'The size of the stage don't matter. It's the people there that matter' 2013-06-28T06:00:05Z

“The thing that has drawn me to her is this complete unity between her musical intentions and her approach to the keyboard,” Ms. Dinnerstein, now 45, said. Hear the Martha Argerich Recordings That Inspired 8 Young Pianists 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Rather than just some bloke who'd popped in from the pub, Rob, it transpires, is Robin Coudert, keyboard player for Phoenix. Maniac is still nasty but it's a cut above most horror remakes 2013-03-15T13:00:00Z

To improve his keyboard skills at Curtis, he undertook composition studies. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

In the bleak winter of 1989, as I banged away tunelessly on the keyboard in the basement of my college dorm, a stranger walked in, shivering, his face wrapped in bandages. David Bowie changed me more than he changed you 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

The members of Joel's ensemble -- drums, bass, guitar, percussion, keyboards and brass -- were well practiced and never missed a note, but they seldom felt truly explosive. Billy Joel's first concert at Hollywood Bowl: An L.A. 'Piano Man' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Ben, 22, organ and keyboards, looks vaguely depressed when he emerges from the dressing room, so I tell him he looks very nice, very spring/summer 2010. Mumford & Sons: sound of the summer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

On Hospice, the musical mesh of gently teased guitar and humming keyboards can be as slight and as resonant as a resigned sigh, but the Antlers lose this bruised weariness live. The Antlers 2010-05-23T21:15:00Z

She sat at the keyboard, joyfully making collages of photographs for some popular magazine to publish with the news stories she concocted from his strange, early-morning dreams. Woman Fish by Dorothy Tse, translated by Nicky Harman 2013-03-21T13:24:10Z

Armed with a keyboard and an Ethernet cable, my friend Marie and I had quickly begun testing the limits of what we could accomplish online. My “Ghost World” years: Confessions of a teenage AOL catfisher 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

The disparity between the relatively straightforward violin part and more developed keyboard writing suggests Schnabel’s greater comfort in composing for piano. Review | Jenny Lin plays Schnabel’s piano works at the Library of Congress 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

It continued with one of Samuel Adams’s Impromptus, a work of inspired keyboard writing designed to complement Schubert, with flashes of that composer along with warmth and subtle harmonic shading to match. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

The songs assemble themselves from deceptively simple openings — on “Mermaids,” a lone, gurgling guitar; on “We Real Cool,” a single-note bass rumble — that evolve into rich climaxes full of string and keyboard flourishes. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Rush Into the Unknown on Push the Sky Away 2013-02-20T14:30:07Z

But the approach remains the same, with Middle Eastern themes matched against sturdy Arabic percussion and bass work from Bernard O'Neill, with Page adding guitar and keyboards. Syriana: The Road to Damascus 2010-09-16T22:00:00Z

I didn't think you were allowed to to do that to keyboards. Jon Lord: five great performances from Deep Purple and Whitesnake 2012-07-16T22:08:25Z

I called my editor, Tom the Butcher, to complain about how inefficiently designed the keyboard is on an iPhone. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The new rules of punctuation are unbelievable. Period. 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

The hole eliminates two octaves of strings, reducing the center portion of the keyboard to percussive thumps. Art Review: I Just Popped Out to Play Beethoven 2010-12-09T23:57:00Z

While Handel’s keyboard music might not reach the profundity of Bach’s, there is emotional depth in Ms. Smirnova’s renditions of the various movements, by turns elegant, witty and melancholy. Classical Recordings: ‘Handel: Keyboard Suites’ by Lisa Smirnova 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z

All the more reason to savor “Can’t See Straight,” with its keyboard ornamentation and offbeat glow. Sam Phillips, 'Push Any Button' album review 2013-08-12T16:02:00Z

Much of the work remains on the lower half of the keyboard. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

So are grimy keyboards, grimier vocals and sparse beats that sound like they belong on a demo rather than a major-label release. Beastie Boys cut nostalgia with beats, humor 2011-04-29T16:25:21Z

With Ax at the keyboard, the evening wasn't just about Perlman but a bracing collaboration between two longstanding colleagues and friends. Itzhak Perlman revisits moments of early greatness with pianist Emanuel Ax 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

I pushed my keyboard away from me, read the last line over and over, and then – unexpectedly – burst into tears. Burial Rites and the loneliness of the long-distance writer 2013-06-04T02:39:45Z

“Slow it down,” she commands, over a keyboard melody with a thick, sloshy, sticky tone: a song with and about viscosity. Playlist: Inspired Variations, on Heroes and an Elixir 2014-02-28T23:30:26Z

A. I love their sensibility, their melodies, their lyrics, the way they weave the three keyboards. Playlist : David Lynch?s Album, ?Crazy Clown Time? 2011-11-13T05:10:09Z

Which became the perfect time to sit down at a keyboard to pen opinions and reactions, as many a noted author did. As the World Cup turns and the ball rolls, authors weigh in 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

At the risk of sounding disrespectful, the keyboards are no great loss here. Cheikh L? ? review 2011-01-16T00:06:12Z

Even Orifice Origami, which should offer some respite based on its title alone, merely plods, while Sweet Sipping Soda sounds like the View sat on a keyboard. Reptar: Body Faucet – review 2012-06-28T20:00:01Z

“When I saw that, I felt so heard as a woman… and you know what, if I’m heard, that means that you’re heard,” she said, perched behind a keyboard. Watch Lady Gaga's Final 'Dive Bar Tour' Performance 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Drum tones are often woody and hollow; keyboards and strings open up hazy spaces, sometimes without a beat. John Legend: Love Songs That Bow to Dark Shadows 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The memoir is not the result of Paul Newman sitting down at a keyboard and typing out his personal history. A Posthumous Memoir Reveals Paul Newman in His Own Words 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

The face becomes all the more important when the hands are otherwise occupied, as when a conductor simultaneously plays a keyboard, a common practice of early-music specialists like Mr. Bicket. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

She reached across and carefully removed my hand from the keyboard, as if taking a knife from a psychopath. David Nicholls Every Good Boy 2011-07-22T22:01:00Z

Dear Readers: It may be easier for not-so-nimble fingers to use a touch-screen phone, tablet or computer instead of a traditional computer that uses only a keyboard. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Creating your best home office 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

It was scored not for an orchestra but for the Philip Glass Ensemble, which consisted of two electric keyboards, three wind instruments and a wordless solo soprano, all exuberantly amplified by a rock-style sound mixer. ‘Einstein on the Beach’ Revival at BAM Raises Questions 2012-08-31T14:06:50Z

As I helped her mold her hands into the keyboard, I thought back to the time I walked the nearby streets, so frightened I had searched for hope in the form of a baby elephant. My Story: Growing Acceptance for the Transgendered 2013-02-04T04:45:25Z

He's done more to use a small keyboard synthesiser expressively than any other one musician. Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle 2012-05-23T10:54:12Z

The letter's third point contends that "the idea of a cat playing a keyboard piano is not protectable copyright." Keyboard Cat owner claws Threadless 2011-06-30T23:38:00Z

I muffed one test, but, during it, a fly had landed on my keyboard: Confirmation of my suspicion that I don’t have a retention problem, but occasionally I have an attention one. Total Recall: A Reader’s Guide to Memory Gain 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

The author would be classed as severely autistic, and writes by pointing to a "cardboard keyboard", one character at a time. David Mitchell: learning to live with my son's autism 2013-06-29T08:00:00Z

“Constant Image” includes keyboard and horn touches, but onstage the band musters only guitar, bass and drums. Review | Flasher gallops its way through Black Cat concert 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

The photos of keyboards, sidewalks, pets and children, of desks and walls and plenty of screens, all accompanied by poorly framed faces, may not feel totally new or sustainable. This New Social App Is Boring, in a Good Way 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

In the perfectly scaled space of a concert hall like St George's in Bristol, though, Uchida's playing becomes even more compelling and directly communicative, with every detail and every keyboard colour registering without apparent effort. Mitsuko Uchida 2010-09-26T21:15:00Z

On a recent October day, Chad Goodman, the orchestra’s current conducting fellow, was rehearsing the orchestra in Schumann’s overture to “The Bride of Messina” while MTT sat at a keyboard and kibitzed. Perspective | Michael Tilson Thomas was once the ‘bad boy of classical music.’ Now, at 74, he still conducts with childlike delight. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Staier’s sensitive, passionate playing is remarkable throughout as he coaxes a range of colors and timbres from his keyboard. Classical Playlist: Handel's 'Messiah,' Beethoven, Schumann and More 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

The “sand dance” is performed to a synthesized rendition of Van Morrison’s “Moondance,” with the melody played on what sounds like the pan flute setting of a cheap Casio keyboard. Dancing is Tapman’s strength, but production values are his Kryptonite

It’s subtle and dreamy, drifting in a wash of electronic keyboards and muted percussion. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z

In songs from the 1990s like “Misunderstood,” guitars and keyboards were stalwart as ever, as the current band dug into the old dynamics. Music Review: Wilco at Central Park SummerStage - Review 2011-09-25T22:40:39Z

He persevered through chemotherapy treatments, and when typing became painful, he wore “silver-lined gloves that allowed use of a trackpad and keyboard,” his wife, Lucy — also a doctor — writes in the epilogue. ‘When Breath Becomes Air’: Young doctor’s last words of wisdom, hope 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Marchese described, in addition to guitars, drum kits and keyboards, road cases full of stage equipment, lighting trusses. Inside Prince’s Paisley Park Archives: 7,000 Artifacts Cataloged, Many More to Go 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Alongside his students, Mr. Pérez played piano and keyboards in an all-star jam at the end, upstaged only slightly by three kids whose horns were half their body size. Danilo Pérez Builds a Magnet for Musicians in Panama 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

His pianist and musical director, Quinn Johnson, provided fluid keyboard solos, and David Mann’s tenor saxophone added tang. Review: Steve Tyrell Keeps a Comfortable Pop-Swing Style in Honoring Sinatra 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

As an aspiring keyboard player, I was particularly drawn to the piano playing of David Sancious, a crucial lynchpin in Bruce's nascent backing band. The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

Many Parliament recordings from the 1970s, like “Aqua Boogie,” another song that would be widely sampled in hip-hop, revolve around the multiple, constantly surprising keyboard parts Mr. Worrell devised. Bernie Worrell, Whose Keyboards Left an Imprint on Funk and Hip-Hop, Dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Martin began adding keyboard parts to the Beatles’ recordings virtually from the start, a notable early example being the ringing celesta line on “Baby It’s You.” George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The massive solo part, fearlessly played by Sergio Tiempo, ranges from hauntingly jazzy bits to great bursts of keyboard color that the Venezuelan pianist seemed born to reveal. As the Los Angeles Philharmonic tours, Gustavo Dudamel seems determined to shake up his audiences 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

There’s just something so soulful about the combination of the keyboard part and the lyrics and the melody. Bonnie Raitt on 'I Can't Make You Love Me': 'It struck me deeply' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Their lush arrangements of guitar, keyboard, viola, other assorted instruments and random sound samples often eschew reliable melodies and vocal harmonies in favor of occasional passages of minimal drone or maximal sonic layerings. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z

The sharp band, sitting at center stage under the raised platform, includes six pieces: two keyboards, two horns, a bass and drums. “Five Guys Named Moe”: Vintage jump-jive goes modern boy band at Arena

Phil six years ago, but at 73, Argerich has lost nothing of her fleetness of touch at the keyboard or her mercurial manner. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

With its tinkling, bell-like sound, you’d think it was a xylophone or marimba, but the celesta is an upright keyboard instrument, about the size of a spinet piano. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z

Guitars and keyboards crashed as Welch turned a smile to the camera. "Yellowjackets" is returning to push the boundaries of what being "Just a Girl" really means 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Drums land like an avalanche, guitars and keyboards get in shoving matches, and Dylan's voice is closely bodyguarded. Music gift sets: The best of 2010, from Bob Dylan to Michael Jackson 2010-12-11T00:34:00Z

On one side of him, Guilherme Granado fiddled intently with a sampler and a keyboard; on the other, Thomas Rohrer used a tiny mallet to elicit steely chimes from an amplified kitchen whisk. Review: Rob Mazurek’s Black Cube SP Plays at ShapeShifter Lab 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

In tribute, Mr. Zimerman recorded those concertos on his own, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic from the keyboard. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The core of the group is Mr. Cooper and his wife, Korey Cooper, who plays keyboards. Exalting the Sacred, Wooing the Secular 2013-07-09T21:37:07Z

Mr. Mortensen imparted tremendous energy to the young string and, at times, woodwind players, providing occasional keyboard flourishes but leaving most of the continuo work to players on a second harpsichord and a positive organ. Review: A Vivid Vision of Muffat at Juilliard415 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

“Later, I would use it to trill long at the top of the keyboard in the Liszt First Concerto,” he writes, nonchalantly. A Pianist Revisits His Youth, in Playful Fragments 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

The absence of the complex perspectives of orchestral writing – and the challenging limitation of 10 fingers on one keyboard – can focus the mind wonderfully. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

Nieve’s keyboards have provided the musical framework for much of Costello’s music throughout his career, but in this case they were the last instruments to be added. Elvis Costello rocks out from the back porch 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

That duality is reflected giddily in the early scene in which he sits at a keyboard and humiliates Salieri with a heavenly variation on the prosaic march the older maestro has written in his honor. Review | ‘Amadeus’ at the Folger will be music to your ears 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Loosen up your keyboard fingers and charge up your laptop, because Cyber Monday is nigh. The holiday’s best Cyber Monday travel deals around the globe 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Holter, with a keyboard and a string quartet, was opulent and delicate – but Hecker and Lopatin created a huge, swelling, apocalyptic din, where orchestral samples were mangled and distorted with laptop noise. When the church turns into a pub 2012-12-27T08:00:05Z

The piano duet — where four hands squeeze together on one keyboard — hasn’t always enjoyed a stellar reputation. CD reviews: Diana Damrau, ‘Fiamma del Belcanto’; ‘ZOFO Plays Terry Riley’ 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The cycle will be performed in January in nine concerts, several of which will also feature Mr. Barenboim conducting Mozart piano concertos from the keyboard. Carnegie Hall Announces Its 2016-17 Season 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

The first instrument Maitreya played was the drums at age two, moving on to keyboards by six and acoustic guitar at eight. Sananda Maitreya on being “spiritually awakened” by the Beatles, and the genius of George Harrison 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

Now he has moved on to reinterpret Japanese styles, using very much the same technique, matching traditional acoustic instruments against his bass, beats keyboards and programming, and doing so with remarkable delicacy. Jah Wobble & The Nippon Dub Ensemble: Japanese Dub | CD review 2010-04-01T22:50:00Z

To recreate it live, he is backed by two musicians he introduces only as "Aaron and Cameron", plus a laptop, keyboard and violin. How to Dress Well – review 2012-11-06T11:15:38Z

From guitars come open chords in strange tunings, scraping against the key; from keyboards come mellow polytonal clusters. Mark E. Smith Shows His Staying Power 2010-04-30T19:55:00Z

But paper, like Mother Nature herself, is more forgiving than a laptop keyboard or smartphone, which would have been ruined forever by such a spill. Maps new and old offer shelter-in-place globe-trotting — and lessons in human history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

But for anyone paying close attention, the effect was as disturbing as it was celebratory, with nasty keyboard tones terrorizing the party vibe. The Weeknd concert at Chicago Theatre 2013-10-14T04:28:00Z

Chet Faker, an Australian singer and producer, made his songs assemble and disassemble on the spot, triggering beats and playing keyboards as he crooned romantic woes. Critic’s Notebook: South by Southwest Festival Starts to Feel Corporate 2014-03-16T22:44:49Z

He was backed up by Robert Morrison on keyboard, accompanying the récits with wit and flair. With Eyre’s “Nozze,” Gelb and Metropolitan Opera get good season starter they need

One of the keyboard players taped a reply on his kit: “I Was on Time.” Music Review: Worth the Wait? Just Ask Her 2010-12-29T23:00:41Z

From here, Moshier needs to continue to open up his music-making with a more full-blooded approach to the keyboard and a more varied palette of writing for this band. The spirit of Studs Terkel expressed in jazz 2011-01-25T15:10:16Z

Parker, who records all of the instrumentation and vocals on his own, lets the synth and keyboards shine, while playing down the electric guitar, which was central in previous records. Tame Impala Gets Funky on New Album 'Currents' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Her funky six-member band — keyboard, drums, bass, three backup singers — played the opening notes to “All I Need,” as impatient fans’ tweets were projected onto the two giant screens that acted as a backdrop. You will miss her when she’s gone: Noname soars live 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Besides his administrative acumen, he’s also astonishingly ubiquitous at keyboards during each OMF season, joining with his numerous chamber cohorts to bring a vast repertoire to life. From playing music in a barn to a state park, Olympic Music Festival has been undergoing reinvention 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

But the hum of the keyboard does not quite have the same resonance as the clang of Alf Burt's hammer shoeing the steeplechasers of my youth. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

For Van Gogh "my brush goes between my fingers as a bow would on a violin" and Scriabin employed a colour keyboard to add spectral harmonies to his works. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

Then and now, Prophet sings in an imploring falsetto and creates sparse, slinky tracks that twinkle with electronic keyboards. The Playlist: Paul McCartney’s Smooth Tunes, and 13 More New Songs 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

So I was coming in with the whole reverse of that, sitting still at a keyboard, and I had no idea how they'd react. Craig Robinson 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

Much the same is true of this collection of the keyboard concertos, which Ramin Bahrami plays on a modern grand piano. Bach: Five Keyboard Concertos ? review 2011-07-21T20:30:02Z

The music is as filthy as the name: a mix of noisy keyboards, blown-out drums and waves of distortion. Your week in Seattle music: Robyn, KISS, Kraftwerk and more 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the strings worked alone; elsewhere they ceded to Mr. McBride and Mr. Wiltzie, who played electric guitars and small keyboards. Music Review: Stars of the Lid in a Rare Concert in Brooklyn 2013-12-19T23:34:29Z

“Full Stop” clipped along like it was trying to race ahead of its competition, while Jonny Greenwood draped ghostly keyboard sounds over the top. Concert review: Radiohead at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 2012-06-11T06:27:00Z

And if you need a drink fixed, there’s a dual keyboard near the pick-up counter that allows customers to message with a barista. Starbucks opens first US-based sign language store staffed with deaf or hearing-impaired employees 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Besides playing electric piano, Cole holds down the bottom end with her keyboard bass lines. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z

Moreover, on a smartphone’s small keyboard, people are inclined to abbreviate or truncate words and sentences rather than form acronyms. Future Tense: On Internet Slang, IMHO 2014-03-28T19:52:44Z

While the original version reflected the bandmates’ deteriorating interpersonal relationship, Harrison’s new, mellower take on the song — complete with Winwood’s jazzy keyboards and Weeks’s jaunty bass — made for a breath of fresh air. George Harrison's spectacular comeback: What 1979 meant for his post-Beatles career 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Here it comes: The sound of keyboards, drums. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Over time, he’s cheesed things up on record with keyboards, synthesizers and other gratuitous glop. Concert review: Leonard Cohen at Akoo Theatre 2012-11-24T07:58:00Z

A big part of Mr. Lewis’s success as a live musician was getting audiences to listen to him and not gawk at his keyboard rig. Don Lewis, Unsung Pioneer of Electronic Music, Dies at 81 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

This is the third consecutive year of Sing for Hope Pianos, a project that has placed 88 such keyboards in outdoor locations in all five boroughs. Critic’s Notebook: The Sing for Hope Pianos Project 2013-06-06T21:07:24Z

He was struck by how ably Fujii applied the language of her solo piano playing to her large ensembles, where she rarely plays a note on the keyboard. Satoko Fujii, a Pianist Who Finds Music Hidden in the Details of Life 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Every element in the band — including a small acoustic guitar with objects stuck between strings and fretboard, keyboards, drums, and various homemade instruments, percussive and plucked — arrives masked with echo, distortion and warping. New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z

The 62-year-old keyboard player and singer will start the tour May 8 in Atlanta. Allman cleared in heart tests, starting book tour 2012-05-02T01:46:04Z

A caress of the piano’s strings with the fingernails produced a metallic shiver; a chord played on the keyboard while Mr. Aydin damped the strings’ vibrations, sounded like hollow wood. Music Review: Midori and Ozgur Aydin at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-08T22:40:51Z

Paul McCartney's "For No One" enjoys a similar treatment, with listeners being treated to the evolution of his painstaking keyboard work in bringing the song to fruition. The Beatles' remixed "Revolver" is a revelation, adding even more rich sonic detail for the ears 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Last summer, they started making demos again, in Zinner’s basement studio, surrounded by toy keyboards and other musical trinkets. The Electrifying, Emotional Return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

The English pianist Paul Lewis conjures exquisitely precise tempests of sound at the keyboard. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wang, cavorting in costume, played keyboards with the ensemble and prefaced the cheerful epilogue with a giddy cadenza on digitally sampled harpsichord. Music Review: Light and Color in an Undulating Cloud 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z

James Genus played electric bass that was sometimes cranked up uncomfortably high for the theater’s acoustics, particularly when he went in high-speed pursuit of Mr. Hancock’s keyboard lines. Music Review: Herbie Hancock at Rose Theater 2012-03-11T22:05:23Z

Improvisation wasn’t the driving point, but its challenge was still decisively met with a handful of prepossessing solos by Mr. Olatuja on five-string electric bass and Christian Sands, on piano and electric keyboard. Music Review: E. J. Strickland Project and Olatuja Project at 92Y Tribeca 2012-01-19T23:32:37Z

“We are so lucky he had some hours to use. We’ve had people come and play keyboard here before, and this just adds to the relaxing environment we are trying to create,” Parkinson said. Teen volunteers with guitar at cancer center 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dargel’s earliest New York songs, like “Accutane” and “Little Blue Pill,” sound like quirky, kinetic indie pop, with rubbery keyboards, chittering drum machines and darkly playful lyrics about physical infirmities. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z

She also plays keyboard and sings backup for various local music groups. Kimberly Glerum, Samuel Miller 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

We spend much of our work life now tapping away at our keyboard. Why are we so bored? 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Carroll, Bryan’s keyboard player and another Oklahoma friend, said with a light cackle. Zach Bryan Is Music’s Most Reluctant New Star 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

I composed the tune on a fold-up keyboard in my houseboat and wrote most of the lyrics on the train, on my way to a critical meeting with the show's producers. How we made The Wombles 2013-04-22T16:16:00Z

Taped on the keyboards are sound labels like “pour,” “cork,” “type” and “ding”; there are also keys that signal crowd noises from a bullfight, a major motif in Hemingway’s book and in the play. ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? and Its Sound Effects 2011-09-09T14:41:20Z

Most listeners seemed as enthralled as I was by what amounted to a tour of Mr. Schiff’s capacious yet crowded mind, which houses all of Bach’s keyboard music and much by many others. Review: A Pianist’s Seamless Flow, Nothing Short of Astounding 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

But for the past couple of years, she has seemed reticent, limiting her recordings to slightly pedestrian collaborations with other keyboard players. CD reviews: ‘Considering Matthew Shepard,’ 18 years later 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

In 2011, he told The Times that he owned nine pianos, including one that he helped develop, with a curved keyboard making the highest and lowest notes easier to reach. Rafael Viñoly, Global Architect of Landmark Buildings, Dies at 78 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Strings and keyboards injected color and counterpoint melodies. Concert review: Rhye at Schubas 2013-04-12T06:14:00Z

This pacing proved difficult to reverse-engineer, with the ensemble not always at one with Michael Riesman, who led from the central keyboard. Review | ‘Koyaanisqatsi,’ film and soundtrack, back at Kennedy Center 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

“Let it be known that, in the darkened, blood-strewn caverns of our offices, we are hewing our textbooks and keyboards into spears.” A Letter of Recommendation 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Manzarek is among the most notable keyboard players in rock history. Publicist: Founding Member of The Doors Dies at 74 2013-05-20T22:09:55Z

At length, Anderson announced that her "old bones" needed a rest, and sat down at a keyboard. Carleen Anderson – review 2013-01-09T18:25:40Z

Through the years, as its audiences grew to arena size, the band was bolstered with keyboards, electric guitar and horns, growing brawnier, weightier and brassier. Dave Matthews Band’s Grown-Up View of Love and Dread 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Schubert made relentless demands on the pianist, with repeated chromatic scalar passages up and down the keyboard. Chamber-music fest opens on exciting note 2012-02-03T19:16:04Z

Like one of Vermeer’s maidens in comfy old rooms, the girl in the light of a window looks up from the keyboard as if someone has just appeared. Art Review | 'Masterpieces of European Painting From Dulwich Picture Gallery': At the Frick, Paintings From Dulwich Picture Gallery 2010-04-01T22:51:00Z

Sheppard — who commands both a big keyboard sound and a delicate touch, as required — should be well up to the task. Craig Sheppard to Franz Liszt: Happy birthday! 2011-10-18T21:22:07Z

Tuned metal bars, arranged like a piano keyboard, are struck with yarn-covered mallets, producing a resonant, ringing sound. Bobby Hutcherson, jazz master of the vibraphone, dies at 75 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

It was Cage's way of making the keyboard instrument sound more percussive by using screws, nuts and weather stripping to mute some piano strings and alter the pitch or timbre of others. John Cage's 100th birthday is happening all over Seattle 2012-09-04T14:31:04Z

I love to record, and get my chance to play a little banjo here and a little keyboard there and sing a little, and write a little song and sing another little song. “The Monkees songbook is maybe the third-best”: Peter Tork claims the bronze—right after the Beatles and the Stones 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

The following year, Gilmour went on a solo tour that featured Richard Wright on keyboards. Pink Floyd Roll Out Plans For The Endless River, First LP in 20 Years 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

How many of us would be willing to have our keyboards hooked up to a camera that revealed to the world the flow of language, unedited, through their fingers to their readers? A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

"Obviously that would be a great side of it and that's something we're aiming towards," Wood says, sitting by a mixing board surrounded by guitars and keyboards on a Friday afternoon. L.A. band tries to cash in with free monthly album 2010-03-22T15:46:00Z

He tapped on the keyboard and Eve took a stone, rubbed it on another stone, made a sharp stone, and used the sharp stone to carve out a bowl. Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Yes’s rapid-fingered keyboard solos will never sound the same to me. 8 Memorable Moments From the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

The song uses Minimalistic keyboards to capture the vertigo of infatuation, until drums kick in and insist on a direction. The Playlist: Lost (and Found) John Coltrane, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Guessing he had been notified of my existence by 23andMe, I mulled in agitation for a week before finally putting fingers to keyboard. First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related. 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Smith was the busiest musician onstage, often playing a keyboard with one hand while tapping an electronic drum pad with the fingers of the other, for an unmechanical live beat. Music Review: Xx at Paradise Theater 2012-10-28T17:23:15Z

At times he stares at the piano keyboard as if calculating fractal dimensions. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z

There were elastic time signatures and flowing keyboard melodies, but there were also plenty of meandering flute solos. Greg Kot: Gil Scott-Heron, the essential recordings 2011-05-29T16:14:00Z

Carl majored in classical guitar in college, so he put some guitar on it, and some saxophone, and Bo played keyboards. Jim James of My Morning Jacket on Lifting a ‘Wet Blanket’ Off a 2003 Album 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

The keyboard player refused to join in on backing vocals. How we made: Tom Robinson and Nick Mobbs on Glad to Be Gay 2013-07-01T17:24:15Z

Andress lugged her keyboard to writers’ rounds for two years before landing her first publishing deal in 2015 and embarking on a crash course in country songwriting culture, beginning with its primary instrument: guitar. Ingrid Andress, a Nashville Outsider Who Paved Her Own Path In 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

He shifted to a Baroque pioneer of French keyboard music, Rameau, playing articulate, vividly characterized excerpts from “Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin.” Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

We write something that we like, then I work by phone with Tim Lauer, who is the keyboard player in the nucleus of the band that Daniel will use. Q&A with Burt Bacharach: How the 92-year-old composer has kept working during the pandemic 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Fringe flapping, Jonny Greenwood dashes around all night, playing a sequence of alternative instruments – tambourine, keyboard, laptop, some kind of Theremin and effects pedals. Radiohead – review 2012-10-13T23:06:12Z

“I wasn’t there so he had taped it to the keyboard,” Jam said. Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

One of the all-time Seattle favorites returns to the ivories at Meany Hall, with a President’s Piano Series recital of Chopin and Brahms — catnip to keyboard fans. 9 Seattle-area classical music performances to go to this fall 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

This year the festival has done away with the separate rooms: the keyboard makers will have to rely largely on brochures. ArtsBeat: Instrument Makers Take Their Turn at Boston Festival 2011-06-15T20:30:53Z

Maybe I'm old-fashioned but I still believe that the core of libraries will always be printed words rather than screens or keyboards. 'If you tolerate this ...': Nicky Wire on library closures 2011-02-07T22:00:01Z

Mr. Rossi and Mr. Glass shared one piano keyboard for “The Chase,” which had the ornateness of ragtime and old silent-movie accompaniment. Music Review | Tibet House Benefit: Boisterous Bliss in Celebration of an Iron Tiger Year 2010-03-01T05:55:00Z

What kind of band has only a singing bassist and a keyboard player? The Buggles’ Song Launched MTV. After 45 Years, They’re Going on Tour. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

Anything seemed possible when he was on keyboards, conjuring squiggles, squirts, stutters and hiccups on Parliament's "Flash Light" that sounded like funk as if conceived by Martians. Bernie Worrell, masterful P-Funk keyboardist, dead at 72 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

The sunny/bright bouncy/bassy keyboard figure in the verse sketches a subtly unstable chord, supplying both levity and a slightly off-kilter sense. World premier: Everett producer MTK remixes Fresh Espresso's "Something New" 2010-07-06T16:44:00Z

Rodney Bush, the music director, provides solo keyboard accompaniment to Ms. Thompson’s songs, reinforcing the impression that we are at a cabaret evening run amok. Review: ‘R.R.R.E.D’ Is a Bad Hair Day 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

A double bassist plays his instrument horizontally while doing ab crunches; one of his colleagues must jump up and down to reach a keyboard set above his head. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

In fact, the combination on her debut single Uphill of the gentle patter of percussion and repeated electronic keyboard chords remind us of the backing to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. New band of the day - George Maple (No 1,422) 2013-01-02T15:16:34Z

You feel for the lone reed player bravely trying to supply all the color above the keyboard, bass and drums. Musical ‘Dogfight’ has bite, while ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ lacks affection 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

The 38-year-old was just a teen when he first got to run his fingers over its stacked keyboards. Notre Dame organists itching to play thunderous instrument 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

As an instrumentalist, Mozart is mostly remembered as a keyboard virtuoso, but he was also a talented string player. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z

In profile at the keyboard, with his curly hair and wire-rimmed glasses, he needed only pudgier cheeks to look like the Schubert of contemporary portraits. ArtsBeat: The Consolations of a Schubert Sonata Surplus 2013-07-31T19:37:44Z

To write the score, he not only abandoned the computer, but also the keyboard, at which he would compose during the Daft Punk years. Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

Martin leaps to the professor's defence, and the band all turn to face Geddes, their current keyboard player. Love, Belle and Sebastian-style: Laura Barton interviews the indie heroes 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

Most prominent, though, are the songs – top-heavy lyrical odysseys from this self-styled "Aryan librarian at the word Smithsonian", whacked out on a poor, abused keyboard. Bo Burnham 2010-08-11T20:30:00Z

It was redeeming moment and a far cry from Lady Gaga's first appearance at the festival in 2007, when she sang and played keyboard in a glittery bra and tiny, black bottoms. Lady Gaga back at Lollapalooza 3 years after debut 2010-08-07T14:31:00Z

This is all a way for a perennial performer, at 56, to stay spontaneous and casual, backed by his current band, 3rdeyegirl, and horns and keyboards as needed. Review: Prince, in Baltimore, Nods to Unrest 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Earlier seasons explored quartets by and Haydn, solo violin and solo keyboard works by Bach, and more. Music Review: At Columbia, Midday Barber in Strings and Song 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z

But when she puts everything into Put Me Back Together she displays soul that isn't even offset by the keyboard player's alarming gurning. Diana Vickers 2010-05-19T21:01:00Z

I fought tooth and nail against having any keyboards on the record, and no synthesisers. The Paisley Underground: an oral history of Los Angeles's 1980s psychedelic explosion 2013-05-16T17:00:00Z

This musical Frankenstein’s monster brought together pieces from three keyboards, a slew of synthesizers, control panels and a drum machine into a set of plexiglass modules. Don Lewis, Unsung Pioneer of Electronic Music, Dies at 81 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

The camp value of this is underlined when a Casio keyboard descends from the ceiling, and Ms. Fulton plays the theme on it while the others, still dancing, sing the melody. Dance Review: Jillian Peña’s ‘Guiding Light’ at Chocolate Factory 2012-12-09T22:58:27Z

Except for the disparity in their sizes, the two performers, live and onscreen, are indistinguishable, their fingers dancing across the keyboard in synchronism. The ghost of Leonard Bernstein, onscreen and onstage in Hershey Felder's 'Maestro' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Eventually Mr. Rubalcaba and Mr. Pérez abandoned the keyboard and switched to drumming on their pianos — clearing the texture and returning to the dance. Music Review: Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba at Carnegie 2012-12-05T22:57:47Z

Behind Ms. Hill was a lot of band crammed onto not a lot of stage: three guitarists, three keyboard players, a bassist, a drummer, a D.J., three backup singers. Music Review: Worth the Wait? Just Ask Her 2010-12-29T23:00:41Z

The lighting is dim, and in Rodrigo Marçal’s spare score of looping guitar and keyboard and expanses of silence, there are crackling suggestions — but only suggestions — of gunfire. Dance Review: Companhia Urbana de Dança Performs at the Joyce 2014-03-04T21:32:45Z

Layers upon layers of vivid keyboards — which sound like everything from percolating coffee to buzzing fluorescent lights — intertwine with faint hints of chiming guitars and quivering strings. R.E.M.’s 10 best songs after Bill Berry: Daring, brilliant, underappreciated 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z

On Cat and Mouse, the title track of their EP, those vocals give the music an extra edge while the pounding keyboards offer the potential to pursue an early-Stooges direction. New band of the day: Radkey (No 1,538) 2013-06-21T08:00:00Z

I’m lighter on the keyboards and choir than the band’s real sound engineer, Michael Tretow, and get a score of 4,625. You can dance, you can jive — at Stockholm’s kitschy ABBA museum 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

"It is a keyboard concerto with flashing lights, an explosion which sets off a whole tradition that runs right through Beethoven and all the great Romantic things of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov." Century-bending works and wine at SSO this weekend 2011-10-27T20:18:05Z

The series opened on Thursday with Bruckner’s First, preceded by Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 with Mr. Barenboim playing the solo part and conducting from the keyboard. Review: Bruckner, Then a Cultural Call to Arms, at Carnegie Hall 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

The trio also brought in a utility player, Katie Harkin, to add tasteful keyboard, drum and guitar flourishes here and there. Sleater-Kinney still sounds fierce, but something seemed off at 9:30 Club 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

McCartney plays keyboard on the simple, poignant song that is written as a letter from West's mother, Donda, who died in 2007. Kanye West releases new song 'Only One' with Paul McCartney 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

One morning, she’d asked how participants greeted people on the street, then gathered them around a keyboard and played musical impressions of what those greetings sounded like. ‘Stay Elevated’: How homeless youth and Seattle Symphony Orchestra built a score 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

His music drew on, among many other things, the fanfaring keyboard chords of trance, the blips of electro and a classical choir, none of them in predictable doses. An Apt Basement Celebration of Tri Angle Records 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The only sounds were Anderson's violin and keyboard, Zorn's alto sax, and Reed's electric guitar. Lou Reed booed in Canada for free-improv set 2010-07-05T09:08:00Z

The Casio keyboard: the perfect synthesis of sound, style and nostalgia. Hey, what's that sound: Casiotone 2010-07-13T09:43:00Z

Music director Meadows plays an upright piano with his back to us; his nimble hands up and down the keyboard are a good show on their own. Review | Signature’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ ’ takes a while to get jazzed up 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Bass lines lope and skulk, the drums sputter with offbeats, and rhythm guitar and keyboards share a flippant, cackling cross talk, like wiseguys in the back of a high school classroom. New Music: Dumpstaphunk, Five Finger Death Punch and Ben Monder 2013-07-29T22:08:11Z

Except somehow they get him to sit down at the keyboard and from there, he doesn’t leave. You know the Beatles. Here are 16 other important names in the epic ‘Get Back’ series. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The songs, too, owed something to the stoicism of the xx, in that each part, each thunderous bass drum kick, each dapple of keyboard, was given plenty of breathing room, and landed with force. Music Review: Lorde on Monday Night at Roseland Ballroom 2014-03-11T12:02:05Z

Otis was a guitarist with the group; Dexter, who survives him, played bass and handled the vocals; and Mr. Lockett played keyboards. Otis Redding III, Who Followed His Father Into Music, Dies at 59 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Sometimes guitars gnash and moan; sometimes keyboard tones loom; sometimes everything else falls away to leave Ms. Krauss’s voice hanging alone over a ticking, inexorable beat. The Playlist: Miranda Lambert Bounces Back and Michelle Obama Sings the Hits 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

"Leavin' In Your Eyes" employs a rhythm-machine beat and swirling keyboards, which brings more focus to the warmth and emotion of Little Big Town's vocal arrangement. Review: Little Big Town turns in up on 'Tornado' 2012-09-10T17:59:08Z

Ian McLagan, keyboard player for the Small Faces and the Faces, has died aged 69, due to complications from a stroke suffered earlier this week. Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan dies 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

If you want to see an artist who can paint the way a keyboard prodigy can tickle the ivories, you need to rush to Sarah McRae Morton’s show, “Mapping Stars at Noon.” Sarah McRae Morton’s painterly talents serve her vivid dreamscapes well 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Freak moves the drums from their “Stomp” routine, then brings up the keyboard and keytar. Go Go Gadjet reigns supreme at Dewey Beach. Can the kings of the weekend go national?

I try to imagine something like that — try to find the open strings on the keyboard, where the note would naturally resonate with the tonality and the feeling of what’s going on. On David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar,’ Turning to Jazz for Inspiration 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Peek, who sang lead and backup vocals, also played guitar, bass, keyboards and harmonica. Dan Peek, of the Rock Band America, Dies at 60 2011-07-27T03:24:45Z

As he hammers his keyboard to keep pace with the dialogue, we imagine Williams finding his voice. Vieux Carr? 2010-08-24T20:30:00Z

Everyone knows what a computer looks like: the hard drive, the monitor, the keyboard, the mouse. The nearly forgotten story of the black women who helped land a man on the moon 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

At one point he started playing a little children’s keyboard and sang an old gospel song. The night Bob Dylan abandoned me at a petrol station 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Steady keyboard arpeggios and a moody backdrop of strings carry the album’s first single, “Breathe You in My Dreams,” a confession of solitary longing that crests in an urgent call and response. New Music: New Albums by Trixie Whitley and Kris Kristofferson 2013-01-28T22:36:50Z

Finally, in the winter of 2022, he fled Montreal for 10 days, taking suitcases crammed with keyboards, cords and small speakers to Oaxaca. Tim Hecker Helped Popularize Ambient Music. He’s (Sort of) Sorry. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

"Tears fall to the beat," Sia sings over tolling keyboards and a pummeling drum beat. Listen: Sia smiles through the pain in new song 'Eye of the Needle' 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Most of the show business and studio embellishments were stripped away for solo performances: songwriters alone with their guitars or keyboards, occasionally joined electronically by bandmates performing from their own isolated spaces. With Stars at Home, a Coronavirus Pop Benefit Scales Down 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

For most of us, if the screen is at eye level, the keyboard is going to be at the wrong height. Everything you need to know to set up a home office fast 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Jarrett says interpreting the classical repertoire has helped develop his touch at the keyboard when improvising. Jazz Pianist Jarrett Goes Classical with Bach CD 2013-10-18T14:22:45Z

But heard today, these are simply curios, period pieces; any modern electronic keyboard can produce virtually any sound. A pianist with a penchant for the unusual 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

When Ax plays a concerto, it’s a collaborative event with the orchestra and conductor, not merely a star turn at the keyboard. At Seattle Symphony, masterful and moving collaborations 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

His achievements are considerable; it is remarkable that he has attained an impressive technique that enables him to navigate the keyboard confidently and accurately in difficult repertory. Music Review: Nobuyuki Tsujii in Piano Debut at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-13T22:43:26Z

Two executive desks placed back to back create a large conference table while still offering desk storage and keyboard pullouts. Turning a cluttered bonus room into a calming space for work and relaxation 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

He crossed to another balcony, sat at a keyboard, and played “Sign O’ the Times.” Prince Announces His Memoir, Funkily 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

No workrooms at her publisher’s office were set up for keyboards; it was suggested that she learn to strum an acoustic, “like everyone else.” Ingrid Andress, a Nashville Outsider Who Paved Her Own Path In 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

She said that he added the comment about blacks and Latinos lacking necessary keyboard skills. Music Education Group’s Leader Departs After Remarks on Diversity 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Collier shows off all kinds of pyrotechnics on his album; H.E.R. calmly picks up a guitar or sits down at a keyboard and plays with complete command. Grammys Snubs and Surprises: The Weeknd, Luke Combs and BTS 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

The flat grave markers cost between $300 and $400 each and are engraved with the artist's dates of birth and death, along with images of keyboards, saxophones, musical notes or guitars. Grave marker project helps bury the blues 2013-12-30T14:37:27Z

She belted poppy Arab-tinged melodies answered by insistent keyboard lines, looking both sultry and menacing in a long black wig that she removed with a flourish onstage when the set ended. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

As a toddler, the young boy gravitated toward his father’s harpsichord — but he wasn’t interested in touching the keyboard. How the Harp Got Hip 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

I wrote Y.A. novels at such a great rate and with such suppressed emotion that I wore the letters off my computer keyboard. When Even a Toddler Can Tell You Don’t Belong 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

But that was inspired by a memory from a childhood summer music program where she was impressed by an older boy who was playing something with his arms stretched to both ends of a keyboard. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Penny’s work on the other musical elements, like keyboards, makes him “co-captain.” Honey Dijon Steps Up From Dance Music’s Underground 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

The keyboard is a Ducky One 2 Mini. What Does a Gamer Look Like? 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

And it creates no end of finger tangles if done by one player on a single keyboard. Review: Angela Hewitt Decodes Bach’s ‘The Art of Fugue’ 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

The "Two Minutes To Late Night," version, meanwhile, tapped into the original's propulsive underbelly, swapping keyboards for jagged guitars and adding theatrical metal flourishes. The enduring resonance of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill," 35 years later 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

The first Perfume Genius albums were somber and solitary, filled with brooding keyboard ballads; Hadreas has since opened up to the dynamic, sometimes euphoric possibilities of pop and rock. Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

It was the death of his keyboard player, Guy Babylon, that helped to change his mind. Elton John becomes a father 2010-12-28T19:58:46Z

The world is full of twitchy, small-minded keyboard warriors who won’t even be able to watch the show, and every single one of them has been driven berserk by the addition of Zari. Sesame Street's new Muppet takes on the Taliban (and the trolls) 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

The Faeries are a contemporary instrumental dance band who match rapid-fire bagpipe, fiddle and whistle solos with guitar, keyboards and electronica, occasional brass, and an impressively confident rhythm section. Peatbog Faeries: Dust ? review 2011-08-04T21:31:01Z

And you’re also struck by more general qualities: the music’s counterintuitive combination of hard swing and restraint, Mr. Diehl’s careful keyboard touch, and space, lots of space. 2010-01-21T05:41:00Z

Ernest Borgnine is almost suffocatingly heavy, the jazzy sax solo of the album replaced by a keyboard squelch and hot red lights. John Grant – review 2013-05-18T15:00:03Z

Or, "I'm obsessed with this new instrument, or I'm obsessed with this new keyboard, or I'm obsessed with this new theme." The secret to Jim James’ solo album “Uniform Distortion”: “Turn off your phone and open y... 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

But “Clockwork” is built from small gestures — gently rocking figures on the keyboard, shivers of violin tremolo and whispered bow-strokes that barely graze the strings. Review | Violinist delivers an expressive Romantic performance at the Kennedy Center 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Nowadays we can access both Bach's and Buxtehude's entire extant oeuvre with a few taps of the keyboard. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z

ALBANY, Ga. — On a mild December night, deep in the southwest corner of the Peach State, the opening keyboard riff to Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" plays in the parking lot of a civic center. Raphael Warnock’s campaign for the moral high ground 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

We have an inkling of something perfect and ideal, which haunts our imaginings and prompts every stroke of the pen or keyboard. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z

Distrustful of authority, the men become keyboard vigilantes who, egging each other on, grow convinced that Cotten faked his death and absconded with their money. ‘Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King’ Review: Coins and Misdemeanors 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

Whether singing behind the keyboard or dancing on a bartop, she was subtly magnetic, with eyes following her every move. D.C.’s Bacchae may be fed up, but at Songbyrd, that didn’t stop the band from raging 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

But it’s the institute’s second goal, the one about stepping away from the keyboard once in a while, that is so intriguing. Seattle Piano Institute draws students from around the world for piano and life lessons 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ronson wrote his own material for the first time; on tour he’s playing keyboards and guitar. | Mark Ronson: An Admirer Of Tight Production, But of Sludge, Too 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

“Some guy on Twitter said DJs only press play,” Taggart explained at another point in the set, clutching a miniature keyboard. Review | The Chainsmokers aren’t trying to be good. They just want you to think they are. 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

"It was the professor's wife, with a keyboard, on Amazon," said the headline on The Bookseller magazine's Web site. Harsh Amazon reviewer unmasked as author's wife 2010-04-19T16:49:00Z

“People want to be acknowledged. There are so many Muslim women in this world who wear the headscarf. It might seem trivial, but it’s different when you see yourself on the keyboard around the world.” ‘It's not about your age, it's about your ideas’: the teen power list 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Handel’s keyboard suites are more freewheeling affairs than, say, Bach’s. Gerald Robbins Plays Bargemusic’s Masterworks Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

She mostly played bass, although she also contributed backing vocals and played keyboards on one song. Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley supply Drinks at U Street Music Hall 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

All the songs in Perfume Genius' roughly half-hour set were just a few chords decorated with small melodic keyboard figures or Hadreas/Wyffels doing a vocal "ooh" at just the right moment. Concert review: Perfume Genius at the Croc 09/22/10 2010-09-23T17:55:00Z

Still, many politicians do put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, to produce their own work. Every candidate an author: The ceaseless boom in books by politicians 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Arthritis prevents him from playing his beloved Chopin; instead, he hovers his hands over an electronic keyboard and mimes the melodies while listening to CDs. Review: In Scathing ‘Downstate,’ Sympathy for the Devils 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Everdell plays keyboards, and Mr. Friedman handles the programming, sequencing beats and bass lines. Music Review: Mining Multiple Sources for Synthetic Character but an Organic Effect 2010-12-14T06:00:18Z

But the heart of the piece is its long central section: a series of solos, duets and trios triggered equally by snippets of Holocaust memory and Schulhoff's turn-on-a-dime shifts in keyboard mood. Tough, transcendent 'Talents' from Spectrum Dance Theater 2012-10-26T21:02:22Z

And then, with a single note from a keyboard, a high piano chord and a whoosh from a cymbal, she launched into a song about baking. Musicals Return to Broadway With ‘Waitress’ and ‘Hadestown’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Earth-like circles exploded into chemical elements, abstract graphics and finally a circular keyboard that became a kind of musical space station in the cosmos. Piano and koto meet in 'Strings and Serpents' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Ben Jonson said it nearly four centuries ago, and — now that our fingers hover constantly over keyboards — it’s never been more true: “Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee.” Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z

Onstage next to Yevgeny Sudbin, a prodigious Russian pianist and a noted Scriabin advocate, Mr. Crawford triggered lights from an electronic keyboard. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in Newark - Review 2012-01-09T22:57:25Z

Morris Hayes, billed as Mr. Hayes, added keyboards and intricately jazzy simulated string and horn arrangements, earning credit as co-producer for six of the album’s 12 songs. Prince Made ‘Welcome 2 America’ in 2010. It Speaks to 2021. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

The keyboard on your computer is more or less the same as a typewriter. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: The dangers of co-signing a loan 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

The sampling keyboard, which can digitally reproduce any sound, was a revolution unto itself. Music Review | Argento Chamber Ensemble: Sneezes, Hiccups, Laughs and a Chamber Group 2010-03-08T22:29:00Z

For the last few seasons, the superb Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has been performing and recording Beethoven’s five piano concertos with the acclaimed Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducting from the keyboard. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Long episodes evolve in arcs of brilliant piano writing where restless, filigreed, spiraling figures cascade down the keyboard. Music Review: A Soundtrack for the Chaos, Light and Dark of Creation 2011-01-07T22:54:00Z

A motley sisterhood of keyboard instruments — virginals, clavichords, harpsichords — squat on platforms and tables. Metropolitan Museum?s Western Instruments, in a Shinier Home 2010-03-11T23:20:00Z

The organ was already playing when Charlemagne Palestine sat down to the keyboards of the Aeolian-Skinner instrument at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights on Thursday night. Music Review: Charlemagne Palestine at Plymouth Church 2014-03-07T22:39:48Z

Most days, she is at home at the keyboard. Nora Roberts Sparks Up Maryland?s Civil War Country 2010-04-29T22:12:00Z

And although the song draws no concrete conclusions, the tinny drum machine and childlike keyboard drones make these philosophical musings hypnotizing. R.E.M.’s 10 best songs after Bill Berry: Daring, brilliant, underappreciated 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z

The vocalist, who sometimes played guitar or keyboards, didn’t overdo the lounge-singer pose, either in his moves or his ventures into falsetto. Review | British rockers Arctic Monkeys find their way to the Wharf 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

Ronson creates a dark atmosphere for "Alligator" around simple keyboard and guitar riffs. Paul McCartney tries to make everything new again 2013-10-15T05:00:00Z

Hollywood were to commission a holiday number sung by Bing Crosby, with Yanni on the keyboards, it would be: “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — in Greece.” Puss Boots Tower and Kumar in Another Weakened Weekend 2011-11-06T21:48:55Z

Atria’s rhythms had a welcoming, social propulsion, and the microtonality of his writing for keyboard proposed an individual — even insular — language. Review: Outshining a Premiere, a Group Announces Its Arrival 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Herb, with sprayed-on gray hair and a kitschy suit, hammers a keyboard and sips Canadian Club. Kiki and Herb: Kitsch, With a Whisky Chaser 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

People are always shouting things like: "Oh my God they're on to us!" while hammering away at their computer keyboards. Film review: The 7th Dimension 2010-07-08T22:20:00Z

Mr. Tsujii played it with flair here, lingering on the bluesy harmonies of the opening section and darting up and down the keyboard with panache in the lightning-fast runs that come later. Music Review: Nobuyuki Tsujii in Piano Debut at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-13T22:43:26Z

Accompanied by drumbeats and keyboard riffs, he spins out insults, sexual boasts and old-time fables, like the story of the signifying monkey. ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Review: Eddie Murphy, Raw and Cooking 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

It's easy to use proxies, , BitTorrent, an open wireless connection somewhere down the street or any number of other techniques when you've grown up with a keyboard in front of you. Web filtering: Why a Great British Firewall will be useless 2010-12-20T12:20:00Z

“In the second movement,” Mr. Gosling said, “it’s quite a brief passage, but it’s polyrhythmic and it goes all over the keyboard. But then we have to suddenly realign. You have to be selectively deaf.” The Unsingable Music That Stumped a Diva 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

The piano market encompasses a wide range of instruments, from hand-built concert grands that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to factory-made uprights, digital pianos and keyboards designed for young learners. Concerts Disappeared. Piano Sales Survived. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

I looked around: All along the white walls were shelves crammed with skeletons from the past half-century of his work: wood casings, sagging bellows, and mangled keyboards that looked like irreparably crooked teeth. He’s the Brusque Mr. Fix-It for Mexico City’s Accordions 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

He surrounds his loops of glimmering keyboard and guitar with cathedral-size reverberation, and he sings sustained melodies somewhere between plainsong and slow-motion Beach Boys. The Week Ahead: Oct. 2 ? 8 2011-09-30T17:17:58Z

As the stadium-rave keyboards of the final track, Blind Faith, fade away, the audience staggers out with incipient tinnitus. Chase & Status - review 2011-03-13T15:00:19Z

There is a series of sounds and filters for violin, keyboard and voice, and they basically are responding to what you’re playing and saying. Laurie Anderson keeps experimenting, next with ‘Letters to Jack’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Slips like these remind us that Sigourney Weaver — No, wait, I mean Sigmund Freud — is alive and well and living in our keyboards. The Perils of Email Auto-Fill 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Those who dislike Houston’s music inevitably focus on the slickness of the production, and “I Will Always Love You” is dressed up with unctuous saxophone and plush keyboards. Kot: Houston had a voice that served the song 2012-02-12T22:06:00Z

“We carried on the blues licks, it was all Chicago influenced, but nobody really knew about that, or about us,” said Mr. Goldberg, who played keyboards uncredited on many of Mitch Ryder’s biggest hits. ‘Born in Chicago’ Tells of Titans Who Taught Young Protegés 2013-07-25T21:36:16Z

Over here is a fantastical transmitter built of a typewriter keyboard, a clock and a gramophone horn. Derring-do in a steampunk world: This Cirque du Soleil show is so 'Kurios' 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

And with no additional vocals and only some keyboards and percussion in support, the sound was more raw. Rolling Stones again at their peak in rerelease 2010-09-08T00:46:00Z

“So even if we find an appointment, and start to enter our information, it’s gone. His fingers fly over the keyboard like wind. Did you know he’s helping people in Florida now?” Perspective | My mother and her friends couldn’t get coronavirus vaccine appointments, so they turned to a stranger for help. He’s 13. 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

Guests were invited on stage to dance and witness the music legend's quick fingers on the keyboard firsthand. Oscars 2015: Heidi Klum turns heads at Elton John's Oscars Viewing Party 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

The usual sonic cliches of the “quiet-storm” sound aren’t much in evidence: the unctuous saxophones, the stacks of synthetic keyboard goo. Album review: Rhye, 'Woman' 2013-03-04T05:46:00Z

But we do witness a hundred muted shades of glum and listless: Furuholmen still seems sad about abandoning guitar for keyboards, decades ago, while Harket talks about needing his space. ‘a-ha: The Movie’ Review: The Creative Purgatory of the ‘Take on Me’ Trio 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jennings played the bass, keyboard and not least the guitar — acoustic, electric, slide, lap, steel or baritone. John Jennings, guitarist and producer, dies at 61 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The Philharmonic Society of Orange County and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts presented “Dracula” on Saturday night, with Glass himself on keyboards, joining the Kronos Quartet, for whom he wrote the film’s new score. The Philip Glass effect on film: Transforming 'Dracula' and 'Beauty and the Beast' 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Prince sets himself a tempo with finger snaps and foot taps, and he tries stray chords around the keyboard before settling on one dissonant, repeated cluster. Alone in the Studio in 1983, Prince Is Revealed 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

I moved the mouse over to the left-hand side of the keyboard. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

A leading theory was that I had just “punched the keyboard.” READ THIS YOU STUPID IDOITS! 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Bartók was a performing composer celebrated for his artistry at the keyboard — much like Beethoven in his earlier years. Chasing victory with Beethoven’s Fifth: Seattle Symphony wraps up its cycle 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The drums were tough and synthetic, the keyboards tingling. Review: Rihanna on Tour, Part Preacher, Part Dominatrix, All Human 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Each has a tarp in case of rain, and has its own caretaker to unlock the keyboard each morning. Bach and beyond: NYers plunk on public pianos 2010-06-21T18:33:00Z

The album's namesake song — and most upbeat, straightforward musical moment, as it features tumbleweed keyboards — is "Strange Little Girl." Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" is a quietly triumphant covers collection that endures 20 years on 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

It helps to section off time to get away from “the keyboard reality”, as he calls it, where the buffer of a laptop screen allows for too much “hatred in the abstract”. Tim Robbins: 'With the exception of America’s native tribes, we're all new here' 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

In 2005, he contributed a wide-open keyboard solo to “L’Via L’Vasquez,” on the Texas psychedelic punk band the Mars Volta’s album “Frances the Mute” — a choice that shouldn’t be considered out of the ordinary. Larry Harlow, a Salsa Revolutionary 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

She played keyboards on a rendition of the band's hit Don't Stop, a song she wrote in 1977. In pictures: The year of the reunion 2013 2013-12-28T02:45:38Z

He started with choral music for Chicago's Thompson Community Singers, for which he sat at the keyboards. Songwriter, gospel singer Jessy Dixon dies at 73 2011-09-26T20:28:08Z

Intertwining those archival noises with electronic keyboards and instrumental lines, he has fabricated a citywide portrait of beautiful irresolution. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Makarova was pretty demanding, and it’s not easy: You have to keep an eye on the dancer, on the score, on the rehearsal director and I guess even the keyboard. Ballet Theater Gives the Stage to This Pianist’s Drag Persona 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gill and Mr. Reiss, both on guitars, made their own sure-footed mark — as did Jeff Taylor, on accordion and keyboards. The Time Jumpers, Country Swing Standard Bearers, Thrive in Nashville 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

"I am not defending Georgia's attack on South Ossetia, which killed hundreds of people," Bullough says, as if wrestling with himself at the keyboard. Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the?Caucasus by Oliver Bullough 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z

Freestyle Love Supreme, which first hit the stage in 2004, performs spoken and sung numbers, accompanied by keyboards and beats, that are formulated in real time based on suggestions — words or themes — from audience members. Lin-Manuel Miranda Puts Freestyle Love Supreme Back Onstage 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Speaking of Didier: It’s unclear at this point whether his candidacy was helped or hurt by his association with his former NFL team, the Washington Redsk… Sorry, keyboard is inexplicably jammed again. Salute to NFL leadership is a real head-scratcher 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

Baguettes feature prominently, as do toy trumpets, kids' keyboards and a lot of cartoonish voices. Coriolanus – review 2012-05-25T09:40:46Z

The soundscape – in one instance, fingers on a keyboard turn to the patter of rain – is a marvel in itself. Water ? review 2011-02-21T22:15:03Z

He set up keyboard patterns that would continue as loops, tapped beats on a drum machine, or sat down to a drum kit to play, using brushes to stay subdued. Music Review: London Grammar, British Pop Band, Avoids the Cliché 2014-01-16T23:27:43Z

This keyboard duet set maintains his unswerving focus on music that matters to him, regardless of pragmatic considerations. John Law/Mark Pringle: This Is ? review 2011-08-11T21:14:00Z

Donison was writing as a male pianist who, due to his smaller than average hands, had struggled for years with traditional keyboards, but he could equally have been writing as a woman. The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

He twisted knobs on guitar pedals hooked up to keyboards, adjusting sounds often by shape instead of note. Capitol Hill Block Party day one notables: Macklemore, Shabazz Palaces, Champagne Champagne 2010-07-24T20:25:00Z

A year into the shutdown, one’s finger on the keyboard pause button gets itchier by the day. Review | ‘A Boy and His Soul’ is an actor’s valentine to Aretha, Marvin Gaye, and Earth, Wind & Fire 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

A lot of the guitar I did in that era, I wanted it to sound like a keyboard. Tegan and Sara on Queering Pop and Ditching Guitars 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Hearst and Michael Tandem effortlessly switch instruments, tackling drums, tambourines, harmonica, keyboards and guitar. Lollapalooza ends on a high note on day two 2013-08-04T11:59:00Z

Even the dubious "Highly Suspicious" packed a floor-rumbling keyboard bass riff that evoked Led Zeppelin's "Trampled Underfoot." My Morning Jacket builds its alternative universe of southern surrealism 2011-06-19T07:00:00Z

Floating like mist over the top of the cataract is an ’80s-esque keyboard that saves the track from any hint of ponderousness. Sugar's Copper Blue Reissued: 20th Anniversary of Bob Mould's Groundbreaking Album 2012-07-24T14:00:09Z

The wild card was Cunningham, who added noisy accents on guitar, electronic drum pads and one-handed keyboards. Review | Nearing 40 years together, New Order’s sound is still thrilling 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Other keyboard manufacturers started to incorporate microprocessors, but each company used a different, incompatible interface, a situation Mr. Smith said he considered “kind of dumb.” Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

“Pipeline” begins with a series of plummeting bass notes then continues with a catchy guitar riff over propulsive keyboard, bass and drums. Brian Carman, Surf Rocker, Dies at 69 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The Chinese pianist Yundi Li, popularly known simply as Yundi, let his hands drop dramatically from the keyboard after a powerful passage toward the end of Chopin's Ballade No. 4 in F Minor. Pianist Yundi leads with quiet force at Disney Hall 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Buchla, in San Francisco, wanted instruments that were not necessarily tied to Western scales or existing keyboard techniques. Don Buchla, Inventor, Composer and Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

On the first level, Consensus Reality, “Tao” has the appearance of a workaday one-man show, with McDermott sharing memories and fondly miming Glass conducting with his hair at the keyboard during early performances. Review: Philip Glass and the Meaning of Life 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

It is WAnon, because W is even farther to the right than Q on your sacred canvas, the computer keyboard. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I come bearing good news, QAnon. Meet WAnon, the new Mr. Right. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

He reworked Vivaldi's violin concertos for keyboard and orchestra; he also recast his own music to suit pragmatic ends, so what was once a lute suite ended up the next week rewritten for solo cello. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

The motif begins to drift up the keyboard but appears to lose faith; starts over further down; and eventually grows more and more loud and irate. Review: Pianist Ursula Oppens Seamlessly Connects the Classics With New Music 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

For those people, Iasos enhanced the reverie with a series of ostentatious keyboard flourishes, somewhere between meditative enhancement and the shimmering burst used to accompany the reveal of luxury items on game shows. Iasos Raises Musical Consciousness at Baby’s All Right 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, I played in some R&B bands as a keyboard player when I was a kid. Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard is all about ‘creating conversations’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

But the music is ominous — all minor chords, twitchy percussion and detached keyboard tinkling. Beyoncé and Jay-Z: The State of the Union Is Strong 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

A different combination of motives and inclinations prompts every serial memoirist to return repeatedly to the keyboard’s well-worn “I” button. This Is the Story of My Life. And This Is the Story of My Life. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

And the improvisations were responsive — guitar run to keyboard sprinkle to bass rejoinder to drum salvo in endless colloquy — and also willing to delve. Grateful Dead 'Fare Thee Well' Tour Gets Down to the Music 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

It’s an open room with a church-high ceiling, tall windows and a woodland view, neatly set up to record any of his instruments — guitars, keyboards, drums, percussion — whenever an idea strikes. How Aaron Dessner Found His Voice (With an Assist From Taylor Swift) 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

During the opening section, as the sound lingered after each statement of the chord motif, a lacy hint of a melodic line trailed slowly up the keyboard with eerie calm. 2010-02-11T23:33:00Z

Morton is both a solo performer and the keyboard player for the group Maroon 5. PJ Morton 1st artist in residence at Dillard University 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

To hear him speak you would expect him to be drawn mainly to the intellectual end of the keyboard literature. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z

“When he did ‘Beer Barrel Polka’ he would roll an orange on the keyboard,” the pianist told The Washington Post in 1984. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

For lack of a keyboard in Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 3, three cellists and a bassist furnished a rich, throbbing continuo line. Music in Review 2011-01-14T00:08:47Z

By the Way: Sports fans will recall that Didier is a former NFL guy who in the ’80s played with the Washington R … the Re … the Red … Sorry, something is apparently wrong with this keyboard. Clint Didier: Still gunning (literally) for GOP stardom 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

She complemented her pleasant voice with a keyboard, a drum, and — at one point, inexplicably — a parasol. Echosmith keeps it all in the family and all sincerely positive

I’m not there, I’m at my keyboard, half listening, fooling myself while allowing Grazinyte-Tyla’s thrilling Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony to help speed my typing. Why does L.A. need its own summer classical music festival? For answers, look 6,000 miles away 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Oh, you don’t know the shape I’m in,” the keyboard player Richard Manuel sang in one of Mr. Robertson’s best-known songs. Robbie Robertson of the Band Tells All in ‘Testimony’ 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

The keyboard playing and song arrangements – two of Franklin's particular strengths – were left to her male backing ensemble and production crew. How Aretha Franklin asserted control over her career, paving the way for female musicians 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

When she was 12, she recorded herself on a Casio keyboard and a karaoke machine. How Xenia Rubinos Freed Herself on a New Album, ‘Una Rosa’ 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

As Johanna hovers around her keyboard, Klara strums an acoustic guitar and takes a moment to talk of the group's appreciation for Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z

A wooden Indian sits on the stage next to a keyboard to which Mr. Young occasionally repairs for songs like “I Believe In You.” Movie Review: Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young Journeys’ 2012-06-28T23:29:53Z

It’s refreshing to see a rock band deliver those utterly necessary boilerplate guitar explosions in songs dominated by keyboards and horns. Antlers not ‘sad' but definitely intense | Concert review 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Even with his fast tempos, repeats and all, he was at the keyboard for a full two hours. Maurizio Pollini ? review 2011-02-28T22:30:01Z

These were not Haydn's sounds; the keyboards of the composer's time were far more fragile in their tone. András Schiff slyly and expertly plays late sonatas of legends 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

For its main project, he is recording and performing the five Beethoven piano concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, directing the ensemble from the keyboard. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes at Carnegie Hall, Part of a 19-City Tour 2014-03-20T23:37:04Z

Instead, he spoke from his apartment in New Haven, Conn., occasionally setting the phone down to play riffs from his keyboard as he explained his work. He Turned ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Into Protest Music 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

The song’s drumbeat and primary guitar and keyboard lines are each so distinctive that they could likely be identified, even in isolation, by anyone who’d heard the song a few times. Everything we thought we knew about Devo’s “Whip It” was wrong 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

I sat at the keyboard, since Plum doesn't use a computer yet, and she looked over my shoulder. Pottermore's Pioneers: Exploring J.K. Rowling's New Site 2011-08-22T10:10:00Z

In Aiko's version, the hook goes from "I'm just saying, you could do better" to "without you here I cannot do better", as her heavily treated vocal swirls around ghostly keyboards. New music: Jhene Aiko ? Do Better Blues Pt 2 (Marvin's Room) 2011-07-13T12:20:36Z

The younger Bach was especially known for his elegant, inventive keyboard works, which include some 150 sonatas. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

This is the reason, why we used the ivory key tops for one of the keyboards. Ivory keys on Bechstein Louis XV piano dismay environmentalists 2013-06-07T17:22:53Z

Billy Preston, keyboards: The rare performer who jammed extensively with both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, as well as countless other artists. A sampling of some of rock's greatest foils 2011-06-20T01:07:00Z

Later, in the 1960s, when Zimmermann was working with a jazz quintet on improvisations based on his theatrical music, he would again employ similarly wiry keyboard attacks. A Musical Modernist’s New, Smiling Guise 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

He conducts Haydn’s Symphony No. 98, and leads Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 from the keyboard. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Paula doesn’t flaunt it in the same way, but she craved attention and connection that reached beyond the keyboard, too. Her Facebook disaster show 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z

This year, Parker's brother, Jamie, will also be found at the keyboard in several of the programs. Orcas Island chamber-music fest opens Aug. 12 2011-08-11T21:01:05Z

With Martin Rev playing loud, insistently repetitive riffs on keyboards and drum machines and Mr. Vega crooning, chanting, muttering and howling his lyrics about insanity, mayhem and death, Suicide fiercely polarized its audiences. Alan Vega, Punk Music Pioneer and Artist, Dies at 78 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z