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Summer/Fall
2001
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Volume
9
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Issue
3
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Yamaha Helps Assess American Music Education Boston Radio Contest Offers Fun For All Museum Visitors Reveal Creativity with Clavinova Melody Bober & Clavinova Make a Dynamic Duo Clavinova Festival Strikes the Right Note New Clavinova Lab Serves Innovative Purposes |
Manilow A Hit At Dodger Stadium
Manilow accompanied himself on a CVP103 at home plate before thousands of cheering fans. A spectacular display of fireworks and hundreds of white doves released over the field capped the performance. The Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers could not have asked for a more exciting opener to the 2001 season. The Clavinova was provided by Leigh Moore, manager of commercial rentals and special events at Keyboard Concepts in Van Nuys, CA. "Andrea Long, the Dodgers' sales and marketing administrative assistant, called me to request a digital piano with a nice piano sound and feel," says Moore. "They were especially interested in getting a cost-effective keyboard they could move quickly and easily. The CVP103 fit the bill perfectly, and Barry thought it was a lot of fun to play, too." The talented performer/composer/ arranger/producer played and sang with the panache and passion that once prompted Rolling Stone magazine to call him "a giant among entertainers… most probably, he is the showman of our generation." "It was a wonderful treat for the 56,000 fans in attendance," exulted Dodgers Director of Sales & Marketing Sergio Del Prado. "It was the perfect touch to a great opening day." "He was great," says Bob Chacon of Simi Valley, who took a day off work to attend the event. "When the birds were flying, I misted up." Manilow, who hails from Brooklyn, NY, performed his masterful rendition of the National Anthem wearing a bright blue Brooklyn Dodgers jacket. The internationally renowned pop superstar has written hundreds
of tunes and thrilled millions of fans since first breaking onto
the music scene in the 1970s. Manilow has since earned an Emmy,
a Tony, an Oscar, two GRAMMY® Awards and several GRAMMY nominations
for more than 30 albums and several chart-topping singles, including
Copacabana, Mandy, Even Now, This One's
For You, Weekend in New England, I Write the Songs,
and Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again.
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Ball!" and "Batter Up!" are phrases that wouldn't
normally come to mind in connection with a Yamaha Clavinova digital
piano. That is, unless you happened to catch Yamaha artist Barry
Manilow's performance of the National Anthem on opening day
at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. 
