Word: accompanists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skill of famed British Accompanist Gerald Moore: He is aware that "there are 20,000 ways of performing one piece," and his volumes and tempi are tailored like a Savile Row suit to the style of the soloist. See Music, Unashamed Accompanists...
...been talking too much about myself," says the baritone to the accompanist. "Let's talk about you. Have you heard any of my new records?" That well-seasoned musical fable has grated on the ears of accompanists for years. Fretting under a cloak of near anonymity, they have traditionally been regarded by the public as the perpetual subordinates of the musical world. Singers and other soloists of course know better, and so last week did the audiences flocking to hear Soprano Victoria de Los Angeles launch a German recital tour. At the piano behind...
Like other fine practitioners of the art, Moore dislikes the very term "accompanist." His role, he thinks, is closer to that of a partner or, as another famous accompanist, France's Tasso Janopoulo, describes it, a "co-interpreter." Certainly Moore's superb performances bear him out. He has a remarkable ability to vary rhythms and colors in order to illuminate the shifting moods of a singer's text. Moreover, he is aware that "there are 20,000 ways of performing one piece." and his volumes and tempi are tailored like a Savile Row suit to the style...
...Special Soul. Trained for a piano virtuoso's career, Moore originally thought that an accompanist was "a sort of caddie who carried the violinist's fiddle." But when he was 24, he accompanied Tenor John Coates, became fascinated by the challenge of fitting music to text, and soon decided that accompanists "have an infinitely richer life than the soloist." Today he adds: "Even if I had the technique and virtuosity of Horowitz or Rubinstein, I would prefer to do what I am doing...
...Home, the dancers brought out an ironing board and chairs, spent much of their time exuberantly thumping the floor with their heels to the taped ringing of bells, rubbing of balloons, and the off-key screech of misplayed violins. In Arena, the dancers did push-ups while an accompanist whistled Yankee Doodle. Appropriately, the series ended with a piece called Cypher, done, to the sound (electronically altered) of an audience coughing during a dance recital...