Does Ma'am love Brahms?

Richard Nixon, pretty decent pianist --performing his own piano concerto on the Jack Paar Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCsGSMze_6Q

NL to Dirk: Good point, thanks

I think the writer must have meant "sang professionally" for Margaret Truman, rather than "played." It was Ms. Truman's less-than-capable Constitution Hall recital - and Washington Post critic Paul Hume's less-than-laudatory review of it, that aroused the President to threaten Mr. Hume with damage in tender places.

I was interested to see the depiction of Ms Rice in the recent film 'W'. Stone seemed to think her an earnest teacher's favourite. I find this recent performance hard not to see like a neo-Austenian demonstration of accomplishment, mixed with a little of Britten's 'Turn of the Screw' satisfaction. What did Mrs. Grose say to Miles as he practiced lopsided scales?

"O what a clever boy; why, he must have practised very hard."

Mr. Bennet might well exalt Ms Rice to let the other musicians have a chance to display.

I was interested to see the depiction of Ms Rice in the recent film 'W'. Stone seemed to think her an earnest teacher's favourite. I find this hard not to see like a neo-Austenian demonstration of accomplishment, mixed with a little of Britten's 'Turn of the Screw' satisfaction? What did Mrs. Grose say to Miles as he practiced lopsided scales?

"O what a clever boy; why,
he must have practised very hard."

Austen's Mr. Bennet might well exalt Mr Rice to let the other musicians have a chance to display.

In 1986, who should sit down with his family next to my table at the old Trader Vic's in New York, but President Richard Nixon. We talked a bit about music, and he shared that he played the Brahms Rhapsody in g minor and other works. He'd often practive at the White House, he shared. He asked me to send my recordings to him--which I did. Besides Harry Truman, there was another pianist President--was it Teddy Roosevelt?