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Paul McCartney Saves Historic Motown Piano

AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and JEFF KAROUB | Posted 04.01.2013 | Entertainment
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DETROIT — An 1877 Steinway grand piano used by Motown greats during the label's 1960s heyday, and restored thanks to Paul McCartney, is back hom...

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'Killer on the Keys'

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.05.2012 | Comedy
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Jerry Zezima

When it comes to pianists, only one -- goodness gracious! -- is a great ball of fire. I refer, of course, to Jerry Lee Zezima.

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Lucas Kavner

A Child Prodigy For The 21st Century

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 08.01.2012 | Home
Read More: Classical Music, Virtuosos, Nonprofit Work, Jourdan Urbach, Child Prodigies, Video, Concerts for a Cure, Philanthropists, Nonprofits, Lincoln Center, Music Prodigies, Steinway, Carnegie Hall, Violinists, Home News

Upon first meeting, the virtuoso violinist and nonprofit leader Jourdan Urbach seems like a less eccentric, real-world version of Max Fischer in "Rush...

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From A Nursing Home To A Concert Hall

New York Times | Posted 12.11.2011 | Fifty
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For years, the donated piano sat upright and unused in a corner of the nursing home's cafeteria. Now and then someone would wheel or wobble over to po...

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Paul's Latest Passion Project

AP | Posted 12.29.2011 | Fifty
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DETROIT — During a summer visit to a Motown recording studio, former Beatle Paul McCartney wanted to run his fingers along an 1877 Steinway gran...

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The Fear Of Magical Thinking

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Michael Sigman

When Ehrenreich observes, "It's a mistake to try to turn your anger and resentment and sadness or grief into something else," I'm with her all the way.

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