The U.S. economic and trade embargo prohibits nearly all travel to socialist Cuba. But some Americans haven't gotten — or don't want to get — the message. New York piano tuner and political prankster ...
Amidst the angry noises that have characterized U. S.-Cuba relations for more than 40 years, there is a New York man who, almost by himself, has been adding a little music to the mix for the last ...
In a storage room beneath the stage of the Alberta Bair Theater, Caesar LaMonaca is preparing to tune a 9-foot-long, half-ton instrument, a 1990 Steinway Model D concert grand piano. It is one of two ...
Robert Sims climbs onto a stage set up in the atrium of the Hunter Museum of American Art, takes a seat on the bench in front of one of two Steinway grand pianos and pulls out a fork and a hammer. The ...