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Pianist William Joseph performs for students at North Ogden Junior High School on Thursday. (MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

William Joseph shares love of piano with N. Ogden students

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 11:31pm

NORTH OGDEN — North Ogden Junior High music students sat spellbound for one hour as they listened to world-renowned pianist William Joseph tickle the ivories and offer words of wisdom on being successful in both music and life.

A year ago there wasn’t even a piano to play at the school. The Legacy Music Alliance, a nonprofit group in Salt Lake City, helped the school purchase a baby grand piano for its music program because the school’s piano was 50 years old and falling to pieces.

So when the group started working with Joseph’s label to promote his latest CD, it seemed like a natural fit to visit North Ogden Junior High School. Keith Sorensen works for the alliance and was excited to visit the junior high and present Joseph to the students Thursday.

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Velda Young Palmer

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 5:00pm

Brigham City resident Velda Young Palmer, born Sept. 29, 1914, in Perry, died Monday, March 5, 2012. A funeral will be held at noon Saturday, March 10, at the Brigham City Ninth LDS Ward Chapel, 236 E. 100 South. Viewings will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the Gillies Funeral Chapel, 634 E. 200 South, Brigham City, and from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Interment, Brigham City Cemetery. Post condolences at www.gilliesfuneralchapel.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Barbie Elliott sings and plays the piano her grandfather gave her when she was 3 years old. Elliott, shown at her home in Layton, has been blind since birth and taught herself to sing and play the piano.

Blindness doesn’t hold Layton mother back

April Hale Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 7:26am

LAYTON — Barbie Elliott, 42, has never seen the keys on a piano, words on a page, or the smile on a child’s face.

Despite these visual limitations, Elliott plays the piano expertly — by ear.

She has a bachelor’s degree in music composition, is a leader in the blind community, and a stay-at-home mom of four children, all with their sight.

“Everything I’ve wanted to do, I’ve found a way to accomplish it,” said Elliott, who was born blind.

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(JUAN CARLO/The Associated Press) In this Oct. 1, 2007 file photo, Roger Williams smiles at the crowd as they sing “Happy Birthday” to him in Simi Valley, Calif. Williams, the virtuoso pianist who topped Billboard charts with his hit recording of “Autumn Leaves” in the 1950s and played for nine presidents during a long career, has died. He was 87. His former publicist Rob Wilcox says Williams died Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011 at his home in Los Angeles of complications from pancreatic cancer.

Famed pianist Roger Williams dies at 87

Christopher Weber The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 5:01pm

LOS ANGELES — Roger Williams, the virtuoso pianist who topped the Billboard pop chart in the 1950s and played for nine U.S. presidents during a long career, died Saturday. He was 87.

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Concert piano being restored for Orem High School

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 9:35am

OREM -- A 116-year-old Steinway concert grand piano is being restored after students and alumni helped raise $32,000 to preserve the instrument.

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(KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner) Sariah Cook poses for a portrait with her violin in her South Weber home recently. Today, the Northridge High School student, 15, is off to Washington, D.C., to play with other young musicians from across the U.S. in a prestigious event at the Kennedy Center.

Northridge High violinist to play Kennedy Center

Ruth Malan Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Monday, June 20, 2011 - 1:04pm

SOUTH WEBER -- A talented young lady is picking up her violin and heading for Washington, D.C., today.

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Utah woman wins piano competition

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, May 29, 2011 - 11:15pm

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Beehive State was properly represented at The Van Cliburn Foundation Sixth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs.

Jane Gibson King, of Provo, made it to the final round and won the Press Jury Award during the competition, which started May 23 and ended Sunday at the Ed Landreth Auditorium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

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Barbara Jones and her daughters Robyn Sonnenfelt and Rylee Jones, 3, check out a Chickering baby grand piano Wednesday at Deseret Industries in Harrisville. The piano, which came from the Ogden Tabernacle, is for sale for $6,800.

Historic piano for sale at Deseret Industries

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Friday, April 29, 2011 - 9:59pm

HARRISVILLE -- Going shopping at Deseret Industries usually means coming home with a couch or a bookshelf -- not a baby grand piano.

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Mystery solved: Teen put piano on Miami sandbar

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 1:33pm

MIAMI -- The rumors can stop swirling: The baby grand piano that turned up on a Miami sandbar was burned to tatters by New Year's revelers, then brought to its new home by a television designer's teenage son who said Thursday he hoped the idea might help him get into a prestigious art school.

Theories of the instrument's origin had abounded, with some saying they saw helicopters and television crews hovering around the piano. Others tried to claim responsibility, but Nicholas Harrington, 16, had his endeavor on videotape.

Harrington said he wanted to leave his artistic mark on Miami's seascape as the artist Christo did in the early 1980s when he draped 11 small islands in Biscayne Bay with hot pink fabric. And if it helped the high school junior get into Manhattan's Cooper Union college, that would be OK, too.

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A piano has been spotted sitting on a sandbar in the water by residents that live along Biscayne Bay in North Miami, Florida, as seen January 18, 2011.

Mysterious grand piano found on sandbar

Laura Edwins, The Miami Herald

Last updated Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 6:20pm

MIAMI -- Here's a mystery that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "piano bar."

A grand piano recently appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay. Whoever put it there placed it at the highest point of the sandbar so that it's not underwater during high tide.

How and why the piano got there is a mystery. A grand piano weighs at least 650 pounds and is unwieldly to move, said Bob Shapiro, a salesman at Piano Music Center in Pembroke Park, Fla. "You don't take it out there in a rowboat," Shapiro said.

This much is clear, however: The piano isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Unless it becomes a danger to wildlife or boaters, authorities have no plans to haul it away.

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