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	The Piano Lesson
		The piano placed to her satisfaction she hovers near it, one hand in constant touch of it while her daughter grips her free hand.
		Exasperated by the threatened incarceration she shakes her head with anguish and moving to the piano lifts the lid and plays several bars brutally and strongly.
		The piano and her shoe continue their fall while ADA floats above, suspended in the deep water, then suddenly her body awakes and fights, struggling upwards to the surface.
	www.dailyscript.com /scripts/thepianolesson.html (17666 words)

	African American Review: Call-and-response: parallel "slave narrative" in August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson.' - ...
		In The Piano Lesson, however, Wilson traces the play's historical complications back three generations, to an incident in the family's slave legacy that has left them to face the present in terms of a history that, seventy-five years later, is not just personal, but communal and familial.
		The fulcrum of the conflict is the piano.
		In The Piano Lesson, Boy Willie is never able to take charge of his own narrative; every move he makes in his attempt to escape the legacy with which he has been left is made in response to the mythology of the piano.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n2_v32/ai_21059955 (1103 words)

	"The Piano Lession", by Jane Campion
		The piano placed to her satisfaction she hovers near it, one hand in constant touch of it while her daughter grips her free hand.
		She is totally absorbed in her piano music as she was on the beach.
		Exasperated by the threatened incarceration she shakes her head with anguish and moving to the piano lifts the lid and plays several bars brutally and strongly.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/closedcaptioned/piano_lesson.html (15889 words)

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	Lesson Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Cristofori's piano action served as a model for the many different approaches to piano actions that were to follow.
		Pianos were and are extremely popular instruments for private household ownership, especially among the middle- and upper-class.
		Piano Tab As such, pianos have gained a place in the popular consciousness, and are sometimes referred to by nicknames, including: "the eighty-eight," "the ivories," and "the fl(s) and white(s).
	www.piano-area.com /lesson-piano_6.html (1306 words)

	SparkNotes: The Piano Lesson: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
		As play concerned with trans-generational memory, The Piano Lesson is appropriately haunted by ghosts: the ghost of Sutter, the Ghosts of the Yellow Dog, the ghosts of the ancestors, and, in a less supernatural sense, those of Crawley and Cleotha.
		In the present, she returns to the piano as supplicant, forcefully imploring the ancestors to assist in the exorcism.
		Once Boy Charles dies, the piano becomes a medium of sorts, an altar that Mama Ola tends until the end of her days and a means by which she converses with the dead.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/piano/themes.html (1281 words)

	South Coast Repertory Play Insights - 'The Piano Lesson'
		For Berniece, the piano and its carvings evoke a complex of memories and emotions: her mother used to make her play the piano every day, an obligation Berniece accepted with considerable hesitation because she was convinced its carved figures had the ability to come alive and walk around at night.
		Wilson's The Piano Lesson is directed by Seret Scott, and stars (clockwise from left) Victor Mack as Boy Willie, Ricco Ross as Lymon, Kim Staunton as Berniece and Charlie Robinson as Doaker.
		Fences and The Piano Lesson may nominally be family conflicts laid out on a well-made-play pattern, Ma Rainey and Joe Turner panoramas in which one character's crisis pushes to the fore; in neither form does Wilson write "to" the dramatic shape.
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	DVD Verdict Review - The Piano Lesson
		In The Piano Lesson, he addresses the issues of slavery and racism in a subtle, sly way that crawls under your skin and stays with you.
		A chain gang sing along that is as heartbreaking as it is exhilarating or a beautiful blues romp that brings the characters out of their momentary anger and into a dreamy world of the soothing salvation of harmony act as the ties that bind: not only of relatives, but of the ages.
		The Piano Lesson is one of the seminal works of the modern stage and you'll be hard pressed to find a better version of it than this DVD presentation.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/thepianolesson.php (1320 words)

	Amazon.ca: Piano Lesson: Books: August Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A sister and brother fight over a piano that has been in the family for three generations, creating a remarkable drama that embodies the painful past and expectant future of fl Americans.
		August Wilson's play "The Piano Lesson" won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and is one of several works that have established Wilson as a major figure in the American theater.
		"Lesson" is about the conflict in an African-American family over an heirloom piano, decorated with carvings, that dates back to the slavery era.
	www.amazon.ca /Piano-Lesson-August-Wilson/dp/0452265347 (1039 words)

	Amazon.com: The Piano Lesson: DVD: Charles S. Dutton,Alfre Woodard,Carl Gordon,Tommy Hollis,Lou Myers,Courtney B. ...
		But whether he is able to sell the piano so that he can get enough money to buy some property and "no longer have to work for someone else" involves the story (or lesson) that the piano has to show him.
		The piano is adorned with the faces of their slave ancestors, carved by a distant relation who was owned by the Sutter family in Mississippi before Emancipation.
		However, the piano, an heirloom, is a representation of the past and she refuses to sell it.
	www.amazon.com /Piano-Lesson-Charles-S-Dutton/dp/B00006SFKF (1424 words)

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	www.find-information-on.com /piano-lessons.php (206 words)

	The Piano Lesson - New York Times
		In the first pages of ''The Piano Shop on the Left Bank,'' Carhart, a former executive for Apple Computer, is drawn to this tiny establishment, which he senses is more than it appears to be.
		He persists until finally the procedure is explained: in order to buy a piano, he must first come up with a reference from someone who has already done so, a challenge he accepts with bemusement and gusto.
		Although taken aback by Luc's certainty that this piano is the perfect instrument for him, Carhart comes to appreciate the Stingl, a plucky Cinderella of a piano with a sweet, full tone.
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	The Piano Lesson - August Wilson
		The Piano Lesson Wilson not only creates repetitions and recurring themes in words that accrue musically like an extended blues composition, but also (as in tango and fado stories) depicts a people and culture struggling to survive in a world that does not support them or their traditions.
		To pay for the piano, Ophelia’s husband had traded Doaker’s grandmother and father to a man named Nolander who moved the young woman and her child far from the Sutter plantation.
		Since the death of her mother, Berniece has refused to play the piano, although she is sending Maretha to a teacher for lessons.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/PianoLesson.htm (1074 words)

	WASHINGTONIAN: Theater Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In The Piano Lesson, Boy Willie, who comes from the Mississippi Delta, has come to Pittsburgh to persuade his sister to sell the family piano so he can buy his 100 acres of the American dream.
		His sister, Berniece, played by the incomparable Harriett D. Foy, won’t hear of selling the piano because of the family carvings on the face and sides of the instrument that are all there is to represent their family’s history and their transition up from slavery.
		A dramatic high point of The Piano Lesson is when all the men on stage do a slowly building prison-farm work song that reverberates with stomping feet and a spoon on a pot lid that echoes Africa, gospel tradition, and the exhausting labor they have suffered.
	www.washingtonian.com /thismonth/Reviews/pianolesson.html (616 words)

	The Piano Lesson
		And he was even serious about his piano lessons, which he seemed to enjoy although he was much more interested in devising his own impromptus at the keyboard than reading the easy ones of Chopin which he teacher had assigned.
		Well, I am here, got to knock and go in and wait for the dumb girl who is always making the same mistakes to finish up her lesson, she shouldn't be playing piano at all, sort of good looking with her thick lips, she would be better with the clarinet.
		Anyway Saturday morning piano lesson was over and he could practice any way he wanted for six days until the lesson in the following week.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/piano.lesson.html (1913 words)

	Chimes Online - "The Piano Lesson" comes to Calvin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This week's theatre production, ``The Piano Lesson,'' ends that silence and serves to extend the audience's exposure to human experience with historic significance.
		Currently, the piano is in his sister Berniece's possession and she will not easily sell the significant symbol of her family history.
		Shearer is thrilled with the message of ``The Piano Lesson'' and hopes that everyone will come and see the show for two reasons.
	www-stu.calvin.edu /chimes/2002.02.01/fro2.html (831 words)

	Piano and Keyboard Method Review 2007
		Piano and Keyboard Method, our #3 ranked piano lesson software and "TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award" winner, comes from a company that is the world's leading publisher of guitar lesson software: eMedia.
		Although Piano and Keyboard Method offers more lessons than any of the other programs reviewed, its limited help and support options and lack of instructional games places it two beats behind Teach Me Piano Deluxe, our #1-ranked piano lesson program.
		Piano and Keyboard Method doesn't miss a step here, it lets you change the tempo mid song, and every song includes an arrow on the tempo bar which indicates the recommended speed.
	piano-lesson-software-review.toptenreviews.com /piano-and-keyboard-method-review.html (624 words)

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		The major chord August Wilson strikes with The Piano Lesson is the "vital importance of family heritage and historical legacy" (SIRS Database).
		The central symbol in The Piano Lesson is the Charles' large upright piano, a family heirloom that sits in Berniece's living room.
		He also believes that selling the piano, upon which the Charles' images are carved, will avenge his ancestors while simultaneously shirking the object that most reminds him of his family's slavery to the Sutters.
	plaza.ufl.edu /lisapisa/project2/piano.html (681 words)

	Free Essay Literary Analysis: The Piano Lesson
		The spiritual connection between the piano -- the family's heirloom and tie to historical implications of slavery -- and the two siblin...
		The piano symbolizes the trophy, or monument, which represents the struggles of the Charles family’s forefathers.
		The Piano Lesson in addition to being a comedy, drama, thriller, and a mystery has added to its list the morals of fables.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=27869 (2170 words)

	The Piano Lesson
		Wishing to encourage her young son's progress on the piano, a mother took the small boy to a concert featuring a renowned pianist.
		Seizing the opportunity to explore the wonders of the concert hall, the little boy rose and eventually explored his way through a door marked "No Admittance." When the house lights dimmed and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her seat and discovered that her son was missing.
		In horror, the mother saw her little boy sitting at the keyboard, innocently picking out "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." At that moment, the great piano master made his entrance, quickly moved to the piano, and whispered in the boy's ear, "Don't quit.
	inspie2.home.mindspring.com /lesson.htm (328 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > The Piano Lesson > Printer Friendly
		The significance of the piano is revealed slowly through a series of moving stories.
		That history is not played for the obvious, simplistic moral lesson but rather, through the piano, is allowed the detail and nuance of real life.
		Some have criticized The Piano Lesson for veering into the mystical at times, but this just works with the superstition the characters share.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=5433 (628 words)

	Aisle Say (Toronto): THE PIANO LESSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Piano Lesson, the second of two plays by August Wilson to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Fences is the first), opened this week at the duMaurier Theatre Centre, where it runs until March 2.
		The struggle that they endure over whether or not to sell the family piano serves to crystallize deeper truths about their respective pasts.
		The Piano Lesson is epic in its human scale and almost as epic in its length.
	www.aislesay.com /ONT-PIANO.html (632 words)

	The Piano Lesson
		I have always supplemented my income by teaching piano lessons which is something I have done for over thirty years.
		Robby was 11-years-old when his mother (a single mom) dropped him off for his first piano lesson.
		Well, Robby began with his piano lessons and from the beginning I thought it was a hopeless endeavor.
	www.freemason.org /cfo/september_october_2001/piano.htm (966 words)

	Amazon.com: The Piano Lesson: Books: August Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The conflict centers around a piano that was once traded by the family's white master for two of the family's ancestors.
		Boy Willie and Berniece, the siblings who inherit the piano (carved to show family history), argue about whether or not to sell it.
		Berniece's climactic refusal to allow Boy Willie to move the piano exorcises both the literal and figurative ghost of the white slave owner who has been haunting the family.
	www.amazon.com /Piano-Lesson-August-Wilson/dp/0452265347 (497 words)

	The Piano Lesson Summary and Study Guide - August Wilson
		The Piano Lesson is the fourth of August Wilson’s cycle of plays about the African American experience in the twentieth century.
		Wilson presents the Charles’ different attitudes towards their family history in a naturalistic style: the dialogue accurately reflects everyday dialect, and the action is interwoven with scenes of people preparing meals, hot-combing hair, and bathing.
		The play’s central metaphor, the piano, dominates this structure, while Wilson’s inclusion of ghosts and spirits demonstrates his diverse cultural and literary influences.
	www.enotes.com /piano-lesson-wilson (424 words)

	Worlds Largest Piano Lesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The World’s Largest Piano Lesson™ was the first interactive, multi-media piano lesson delivered right to the individual computer.
		The World’s Largest Piano Lesson™ was produced in the form of a Webimentary™ - an elegant, interactive documentary streamed through the internet.
		Through a combination of video, live performance, internet streaming, midi technology and interactive question and answer, a worldwide audience embarked on an entertaining journey to study the life of a professional musical artist and the architecture, design and actual preparation of a solo recital.
	www.masterartists.com /php/home.php (265 words)

	Piano Lesson - Breaking News and Lesson Information
		PIANO LESSON Wishing to encourage her young son's progress on the piano, a mother took the small boy to a Paderewski concert.
		Piano Lesson Myths by Howard Richman Piano lesson myths are so ingrained into our culture and our consciousness that it almost seems silly to counter them.
		"The Piano Lesson" by Romare Bearden - ARTinaClick.com
	www.diplomablog.com /lesson (1121 words)

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