Word: bartok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parker's life was as frantic as his music was creative. He said that he wanted to hear Schoenberg, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Bartok-but he could never find the time. Married twice, his amorous escapades were infamous. He was charming, monstrous, lonely, tortured. He was trapped in the upside-down world of jazz. Day began at dusk and ended whenever the counterfeit glow of alcohol, drugs and sex wore off. He began to use heroin to unlock the doors of creativity the way Coleridge used opium and Schiller inhaled rotten apples. Finally he lost the trick of living...
...band's playing reached its peak in the eclectic final work. Karel Husa's "Music for Prague 1968." Husa, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music, borrows whoel motifs from both Bartok and Holst, but draws most heavily on an old Czech song which Smetana, the fervently nationalistic 19th century Czech composer, dramatized in his massive Ma Vlast. Clear playing brought out the wide-ranging passions which inspired the work, both the mournful and the chauvinistic...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will accompany the winner of their well-publicized concerto contest: John Peech plays the Bartok Second Piano Concerto. Also on the program is the popular Beethoven Seventh. It should be a good concert and the price is not unreasonable (only $1 for students...
SANDERS THEATER. Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (second suite), Bartok, Second Piano Concerto. (John Peech, Soloist), Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Tickets $1.50 (students...
KIRKLAND HOUSE JCR. Robert Portney, violin; Arlene Portney, piano. Works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Franck, Wieniawski, and Bartok...