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Kirkland House Music Society--Violinist Lynn Chang and pianist Richard Kogan perform Bach's Unaccompanied Sonata in A minor for violin, Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 3, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata for violin and piano. Free. Kirkland House Junior Common Room...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: CLASSICAL | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...contemporary Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke. The music had an eerie, almost macabre aura, heighte at one point when Kremer played against a passage that he had taped earlier and that was being beamed into the hall over loudspeakers. But Kremer's interpretations of two unaccompanied works by Bach-the Partita No. 1 in B-minor and, as an encore, the fiendishly difficult Chaconne-were the biggest surprise. This was Bach done in a robust, free style that damned scholarship and gave the music continuous life and excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gidon Kremer: Gaunt and Gripping | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...been involved with various Harvard musical organizations including the Harvard Bach Society...

Author: By Judy E. Matloff, | Title: Woman Picked For Regional Rhodes Finals | 12/16/1976 | See Source »

...ended his performing career. Playing with Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his friend Tenor Peter Pears, with whom he shared a semi-manorial brick house in Aldeburgh, Britten was a deft, expressive accompanist at the piano. He was an exceptional conductor, not only of his own works but also of Bach, Purcell and Mozart. His graceful, impassioned version of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor, for example, is the best on records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Britten: 1913-76 | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...people referred to this composer or that, even him, as "the greatest." "Of course you can be the tallest composer," he said once. "Alban Berg was probably the tallest composer and Mahler was probably the shortest. But how can you judge that a particular composer was the greatest? Today Bach is considered greater than Handel, yet 100 years ago the opposite was true." For Britten it was enough, as he put it, "if people want to hear what you have written." In his case they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Britten: 1913-76 | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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