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Pianists have to stay on the job, maintaining composure and surmounting anxieties, so that their work acquires the necessary finish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Pianists typically sit facing each other, so their eyes can meet, the pianos nestled together and the lid up on the rear instrument, creating in effect a double instrument of around 460 strings.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025

Pianists who take on “Vexations,” he later said, “do so at their own great peril.”

From New York Times • May 31, 2020

Pianists would play what they wanted, and — this was extremely important — there would be no amplifiers, no electric instruments, and no recorded music.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2019

Pianists in petticoats go back as far as Nanette Streicher and come down to Paula Szalit, a girl who, it is said, improvises fugues.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James