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...Did I know about the man who shipped his grand piano back to Europe from Africa? Or the chap who kept claiming for boarding school fees long after his children left school?...
...(DD notes Wilding is not the typical chair of a British carpet company; we don’t think there are too many others who own a 200ft-long superyacht, complete with a see-through grand piano onboard.)...
...The top price of the evening was £1.4mn, for Mercury’s baby grand piano (£1.7mn with fees), though this was below its estimate of £2mn-£3mn....
...When Frank tries to play the piano with ear-shattering gusto, Bill intervenes to sing Linda Ronstadt’s lyrics, “love will abide, take things in stride”....
...It’s the last chance to see an exhibition of expressive portrait heads by Frank Auerbach, on view at Piano Nobile gallery in west London until December 16....
...Nick Powell’s spare, evocative piano score, played by Yshani Perinpanayagam, is a constant companion....
...Robert Travers, founder of the 20th-century art gallery Piano Nobile, is one of many longtime exhibitors to praise the fair, particularly its 2022 edition, where “there was one billionaire after another”...
...half as many grand pianos in China as in the US....
...The photo gallery shows that it even has a see-through grand piano onboard. Needless to say, this is not a cheap boat....
...French marketing mastermind Jacques Séguéla had his tongue in his cheek when he titled his book “Don’t tell my mother I’m in advertising . . . she thinks I play the piano in a brothel”....
...In addition to hosts inputting information, computer vision technology is used to auto-populate listings with certain features that are visible in images, such as “grand piano”....
...“Leopold Czihaczek at the Piano” (1907) is an impressionistic painting of the artist’s uncle and legal guardian made when Schiele was only 17....
...For the British Art Fair this year (September 29-October 2), Ramsay expects about 50 exhibitors, including London’s Osborne Samuel Gallery and Piano Nobile....
...Jane Campion, nominated as Best Director for The Power of the Dog, was previously shortlisted in 1994 for The Piano....
...Designed by Pritzker-winning architect Renzo Piano, the Academy museum has given gala-starved Hollywood something to celebrate at a moment when Los Angeles feels it has started to turn a corner on the pandemic...
...For instance, you can record your own work and edit it on the dedicated iPad that comes with a Spirio R piano, before posting the polished piece on social media....
...While the police are trying to solve the crime, father (Donald Sutherland) and heiress daughter play duets on the piano....
...Over a patchy Zoom connection from his Tuscan house, he described a gentler life spent exercising, playing the piano, playing golf, brushing up on his Spanish and completing all six volumes of The Rise and...
...Related links:Whatever happened to Britain’s pianos - Financial Times...
...Aside from the bottled-lightning absurdity of its concept, the genius here is in the humorous details: the way your antihero’s weight shifts satisfyingly as he waddles, the tinkling piano which soundtracks...
...“My mum wanted to play the piano desperately when she was a kid, but she didn’t even dare ask her mum, because she knew that they couldn’t afford it.”...
...DD has a soft-spot for the translucent grand piano that is stuck inside Miranda Kerr’s Malibu apartment....
...Upstairs, they could jump on the piano. “It’s bedlam,” said Dave Magnum, a 45-year-old father of three, who was visiting from Maryland....
...Vicky Ward is the author of ‘Kushner Inc: Greed. Ambition. Corruption....
...For the HR departments of Silicon Valley which like to test candidates by having them estimate numbers such as today's population of piano tuners travelling by jumbo jet, we'd like to suggest a new question...
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