ivories

She started moving her fingers around the ivories just to get a feel for the instrument, and her wife ran in saying, “Press record!”

Their lives and possessions — their ivories and porcelains, their prayer books and sketchbooks — map a century of forced migration, colonial expansion and absorption into high society.

David Foster tickled the ivories with a medley of his own greatest hits — including his Whitney Houston showstopper “I Have Nothing” from “The Bodyguard,” Oscar-nominated for best song in 1993.

Pianist Chloe Flower became a main character at the Globes for more than tickling the ivories throughout the night — for good and ill.

But an executive at Atlantic Records had listened to it and replied with a directive: Silence the ivories.