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...French impressionism is more to your taste, the Bach Society is presenting an all-Ravel concert in honor of his one hundredth birthday. Neal Stulberg will be the Soloist in the infrequently heard Plane Concerto in G, a work which shows where Ravel's student Gershwin Picked up a few of his tricks. Friday...
...late spring. "Everybody enters it," he said, "It's usually won by some Russian. I don't think I'll win anything. I mean, I know I won't. But it's good experience performing." He would like to spend his life performing and teaching. His favorite composers are Bach, Beethoven and Brahms--"deep intellectual composers,"--but he is working on pieces by 19th century composers now, "I've got to try out different styles," he said. "If you're going to put on a show you can't expect audiences to appreciate purely one type of music...
...since Toscanini. A Solti appearance is sold out at once anywhere in the world. His records are all top sellers; the Mahler: Symphony No. 5, released in 1970, has made the charts ever since. Solti lives in a fury of industry and seems able to handle anything back to Bach with distinction-or to send Rite of Spring up the charts...
...public was bewitched with its eerie atomic sounds, first through Composer Walter Carlos' bestselling record Switched-On Bach, later by Rock Keyboard Artists Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Rick Wakeman of Yes. The synthesizer began to challenge the electric guitar for the top of the instrumental rock pile...
...play it gently," says Guitarist Steve Howe of Yes. Jazz-Rock Guitarist John McLaughlin estimates that he will need six months to learn guitar synthesizer technology. When he has mastered it he will be able to improvise dozens of melodies in seconds rather than minutes. The prospect would make Bach weep. McLaughlin predicts that one day synthesizers will be built into all instruments. "The synthesizer world," he adds, "opens the door to musical infinity...