Word: beethoven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orchestrated Piano. Last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, as he and the Israel Philharmonic launched the orchestra's 15-city North American tour, Barenboim created a sound-world for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 that showed how far beyond mere dexterity his technique goes.* Threading themes together, balancing passages against each other, molding the contours of the composition, he displayed a sensitivity and sense of structure that are lacking in many musicians twice his age. "Unless I feel the totality of the thing," he explains, "I can't understand what's going...
...thing" has led him from the piano to the conductor's podium, which now accounts for a quarter of his more than 100 annual bookings. When the Israel Philharmonic went on to Cleveland last week, he led it from the piano in a smoothly flowing performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, then stood up to conduct Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 with crisp authority. Such experience helps him as a pianist, he says, because "piano music is so symphonic. The piano is a neutral-sounding instrument on which you have to orchestrate the other sounds...
...Tired of Beethoven. With two more concerts to come this week, Henze, at 41, is presenting what amounts to a retrospective show: eleven pieces com posed between 1946 and 1965, including four premieres. It is all part of Dartmouth's five-year-old Congregation of the Arts, which each summer invites three composers to a fortnight of per forming, reviewing and explaining a representative sample of their music. Carlos Chavez, the late Zoltan Kodaly and Witold Lutoslawski are among past composers in residence; Frank Martin and Aaron Copland are Henze's predecessor and successor this year...
...Metropolitan Opera orchestras, plus 100 students from Juilliard, Oberlin and other collegiate music centers. The students go partly to rub elbows with the pros, and the pros are drawn by the opportunity to play an eight-week festival of largely contemporary music. "You do get tired of playing Beethoven sonatas," explains Violinist Stuart Canin, who spends his winters as concertmaster of the Philadelphia Chamber Symphony. "Here you can be a creative musician again...
...Harvard Summer Concert Series seems to consist of indulging its audiences with the familiar while at the same time requiring that it ingest increasing amounts of the new and not so easily palatable. Pianist Leonard Shure opened the series with a completely traditional program of Chopin, Schubert and Beethoven; a week later Jamie and Ruth Laredo deferred to general taste with Bach and Beethoven, but managed to sneak in the somewhat post-Romanticist Sonata Concertante of contemporary Leon Kirchner; last night violinist Felix Galimir and his chamber ensemble (one almost expected the program to read "Felix Galimir and guests") went...