player-piano

The songs lurch like a haunted Model T from childlike singsong to dense mechanized arrangements, from triumphal player-piano chaos to spare, melancholy chamber pop.

Bill Bush: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3) Bill Bush 2011

The songs lurch like a haunted Model T from childlike singsong to dense mechanized arrangements, from triumphal player-piano chaos to spare, melancholy chamber pop.

Bill Bush: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3) Bill Bush 2011

The songs lurch like a haunted Model T from childlike singsong to dense mechanized arrangements, from triumphal player-piano chaos to spare, melancholy chamber pop.

Bill Bush: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3) Bill Bush 2011

The songs lurch like a haunted Model T from childlike singsong to dense mechanized arrangements, from triumphal player-piano chaos to spare, melancholy chamber pop.

Bill Bush: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3) Bill Bush 2011

I must have taken rather longer than usual that night because she was down first; I found her in the hall examining the player-piano there.

Movie Night 2010

(Check out At Risk Radio on Friday nights for one of the few programs that can slide straight from Conlon Nancarrow and his player-piano studies into Guy Klucevscek and the “Ping Pong Polka.”)

Radio Free Everywhere 2007

(Check out At Risk Radio on Friday nights for one of the few programs that can slide straight from Conlon Nancarrow and his player-piano studies into Guy Klucevscek and the “Ping Pong Polka.”)

Radio Free Everywhere 2007

DOuglas2: Old low-fidelity recordings of piano works can be electronically analyzed to create a set of instructions or an “electronic piano-roll” for a modern player-piano.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yeah, That’s A Good One: 2009

Special prayers like Kol Nidrei [all vows], El Male Rahamim [God of mercy], and familiar Sabbath zemirot [spirituals] had become available on player-piano rolls, in published sheet music arrangements, and on commercial recordings that often featured women singers.

Jewish Women and Jewish Music in America. 2009

Special prayers like Kol Nidrei (All vows), El Male Rahamim (God of mercy), and a variety of well-known Sabbath zemirot (spirituals) were available on player-piano rolls, in published sheet music arrangements, and on commercial recordings, and women were publicly singing such music.

Cantors: American Jewish Women. 2009