Gergiev's career started when his mother encouraged him to play piano as a child.
At age 11, I was determined to learn to play the piano like my brothers.
The best way for me to relax before a performance is to play the piano.
And she--her sister used to play the piano, and I stayed in the sight of the piano, dancing.
Like if I wrote about guys who feel compelled to play the piano anytime we pass one by.
Lang resolved not to look at his father, not to speak to his father, and not to play the piano.
Other things people did following diagnosis include ending an unhappy marriage, starting a business and learning to play the piano.
Lostwithiel's Steph Newton's musical life started from a young age where she was taught how to play the piano by her grandfather.
His parents taught him to play the piano in their native Kyrgyzstan.
Ray Charles first discovered his gift for music when, at the age of three, his next-door neighbor taught him how to play the piano.
Hayes taught himself to play the piano, and after cutting his teeth on the Beale Street club scene, he worked his way into a gig as a house musician at Stax.
"I loved listening, as a kid, to him play the piano, " McCartney says.
He said in an interview that his favorite moment in school was cutting class to go play the piano in the auditorium.
He says that even though he has another piano to play, he always sits down at his practice instrument.
When things got very difficult for us, financially and socially and otherwise, he would resort to the piano and play spirituals until he satisfied himself.
Now using the open source code, enterprising hackers have jerry-rigged everything from virtual piano keyboards that let users play the piano anywhere, to an application for 3D drawings and digital puppeteering.
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Continuing to develop quickly, Eldar became the youngest performer to play on NPR's Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland (at age 12), and his career hasn't lost any momentum.
He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, but because he couldn't play the piano he was not allowed to join the conducting class.
Occasionally a fellow Costco-ite would sit down at the piano and pretend to play a tune.
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That MP3 file tells the piano what keys to play, and how hard the keys should be played, depending on the style of the artist who recorded the piece.
That passion drove him to stick with the piano, even when he felt like skipping lessons to play tennis instead.
How was it that a woman apparently of little musical ability had one day sat at a piano and had begun to play Chopin with ease, and Chopin music that no one had heard before?
"It's a great place to live, and I think there's probably no better place in the world to die, " says Joanne Karp, an 81-year-old resident who was supposed to be in her room recovering from eye surgery but instead was down the hall at the piano, accompanying three kids learning to play the recorder.
About 12 years ago she acted on her dream of learning to play the cello (she had been proficient on the piano) and now is a member of two amateur orchestras and a string quartet.
Instead, several pieces are based on the Lydian scale (play it on your white piano keys from F to F).
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She begged for piano lessons at age 4, but was given a recorder to play instead.
Finding a grand piano still tuned at concert pitch he begins to play as if he had been practising every day instead of breaking his hands on bricks.
When Horowitz and his accompanying press corps arrived, there was a piano, finely tuned, upon which Horowitz suddenly took it upon himself to play.
That was a fact Gould invoked as giving him license to play the Goldberg Variations originally written for double-manual harpsichord on the piano.
This body can't play the piano or climb rock walls, but it taught all the neighborhood kids to eat with their feet, a skill it learned in the children's hospital.
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