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Electronic Tricks. In the U.S., Kostelanetz earned his living for a while as voice coach and accompanist. Then he got a radio job that allowed him to put his pop music convictions into practice. Experimenting with a studio orchestra, he concocted what he calls "middle music," played programs mixing dehydrated classics ("I think it should be permissible to cut those great works down to the purely melodic passages") and expertly inflated popular selections. Working on the brisk premise that the lengthy development of themes found in the classics "is intended for musicians and confuses a lot of other people," Kostelanetz...
Last Friday Heath conducted the Eliot Chamber Players in the Eliot House Library. A music major and accompanist for the Glee Club, he gave concerts in France, Belgium, and England last summer while studying in Europe...
...five, picked out his first composition at eight on one of the Kubelik household's six pianos. At 14, he was enrolled at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1934, when Rafael was 20, his father considered him accomplished enough to go along on a world tour as his accompanist and conductor. Purpose of the tour: to rebuild the ruined Kubelik fortunes, help pay off a $125,000 debt...
...past three years, Manhattan concert-and operagoers have heard plenty of English Composer Benjamin Britten's music (Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned out to hear some Britten music played by the composer himself. As accompanist for English Tenor Peter Pears, who created the leading roles in all of Britten's major operas, "Benjy" proved himself as astute on the platform at the piano as he is in his parlor with a pen. When the nicely varied and nicely performed program of original Brittens, Britten-arranged Purcell and English folk songs...
...Player Johnny ("Curley") Williams (named after his drummer father) broke away and formed his own quintet. He took with him Mel Sidney, a bullfiddle slapper like his dad, Al Pollen. Other recruits were 16-year-old Perry ("Bunny") Bodtkin, the trombone-playing son of Bing Crosby's guitar accompanist, and Gene Estes and Don Ingle. "Boy," says Curley, "we yanked the nucleus right out of that Hollywood High band...