Three Easy Pieces (Stravinsky) is similar to them in the sense that they were composed for his little children to play with him, Stravinsky decided to write pieces for four hands to teach them how to play the piano. The set was composed in Clarens, in 1914 and 1915 and was presented and first performed by José Iturbi, in April 22, 1918. It was eventually published in 1917. The "Three Easy Pieces" take approximately three minutes to perform. The movement list is as follows: Even though they are titled as "easy", only the left part is easy, the right hand sustaining the whole burden
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy added a second part to the proverb, as in "Harry and Lucy Concluded" (1825) by the Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth: The proverb has been used widely throughout popular media, notably including James Joyce's short story "Araby" to Jack Kerouac's "Big Sur", the 1957 movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai", and the 1980 horror movie "The Shining", directed by Stanley Kubrick. In Kubrick's film the main character, Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson), is found to have abandoned the play he was writing in favor of typing this sentence over and over onto reams of paper. A number of other