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...yellow stone walls of Nicosia's Central Prison last week, three young Greek Cypriots in their early 20s awaited the hangman. Andreas Zakos and Charilaos Mikhail, condemned for ambushing a British army jeep and killing its driver, lay placidly on their cots and listened to records of Bach and Beethoven. Iacovos Patatsou, who had been condemned for killing a Turkish Cypriot policeman (out of uniform), accepted the farewell of his widowed mother: "Face death with courage...
Howard Brubeck's answer: in future compositions he expects to give both the jazzmen and the orchestra far greater opportunity to improvise. Mozart. Bach and other 18th century composers, he points out, left a great deal to the performers' discretion, sometimes providing only basic themes and certain harmonies. It is high time, he feels, that U.S. composers started to follow their lead...
...been done as a cliche. This opera is a wish dream of my grandfather, a revolutionary who failed.* It's actually a monologue-a discourse between himself as Hans Sachs and as Walther von Stolzing-the Wagner of maturity and youth. Musically, it's between Bach and Handel, and between Debussy and modern jazz. The real meaning of Meistersinger is Sachs' lament: 'Fools, fools, all of them fools.' The young growing up to be foolish, and the old. like Beckmesser, becoming foolish despite age. It was always done as a nationalistic, Nazi show...
Controlled Chaos. Talented Eugene Istomin invested his pelf wisely, played with both the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony when he was barely 17. He favored the music of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart rather than the showier romantic pieces that appeal to most young pianists, and he developed a style marked by poise, serenity and the avoidance of bravura for bravura's sake. "Of late we have heard a good many pianists who came to us with enormous reputations sworn to on a stack of phonograph records," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Paul Henry...
Istomin started his musical globetrotting six years ago after appearing at the Bach Festival at Prades. France, under Cellist Pablo Casals. ("Casals stands for everything that is noble and sublime in music.") Since then. Bachelor Istomin has toured six continents, constantly sandwiching practice hours into a controlled chaos of press receptions and cocktail parties. The experience, he thinks, has been artistically maturing...