pianola

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Adams was most brazenly idiosyncratic, and surprising, in his 1982 work “Grand Pianola Music,” which begins in comfortable, Minimalist territory before giving way to a cascading excess and a sweeping melody both familiar and unplaceable.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2022

For the most part, though, “Grand Pianola Music” isn’t so grand.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

Indeed, a publication by IRCAM, the avant-garde French electronic-music institute founded by Pierre Boulez, compared “Grand Pianola Music” to the America of Disney and McDonald’s.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

In the midst of the new, Adams’ “Grand Pianola Music,” with Marc-André Hamelin and Orli Shaham as piano soloists, was the one blast from the past.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2019

For this reason the term Pianola was used in the paragraph referred to and now is employed in this book; and, for the same reason, this book is called "The Pianolist."

From The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players by Kobbé, Gustav