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...Andante Con Moto" (1992) began the evening. It is a series of 14 variations on the slow movement of Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata, with an optional opportunity for an improvised cadenza before the final variation. The theme itself is not stated anywhere in the piece, and one catches only a few glimpses of it throughout--an occasional dominant seventh chord, or the five-note descending scale that concludes each half of the Beethoven movement. Rather than indulging in much direct quotation, Rzewski's variations preserve certain abstract qualities of the original. Beethoven's registral disjuncture, for example, is taken...
...concerts-a-year schedule in half and moved from his West Side Manhattan apartment to a quiet bungalow nestled in the woods near New Paltz. Last March he signed a contract with MusicMasters that will allow him to record the Germanic repertory he loves, particularly Bach and Beethoven. "Now everything is balanced," he says. "And I think that people finally are looking at me as just a musician, you know, not as a political hero or specialist in Russian music." For Feltsman, the cold war has finally ended...
...Broader courses would better serve thepurposes of the Core," Auspitz says. "Why shouldsomeone who knows nothing about music take acourse only on Beethoven...
Dunster House Music Society. Soprano Ellen Archer, violinist Dan Banner, cellist Olsen Young and pianist Michael Strauss will perform works by Beethoven, Haydn and Britten. Dunster House Music Library, 5:30 p.m. Free...
Dudley House Music Society. CellistAndres Diaz and pianist Judith Gordon will performworks by Beethoven, Handel and Rachmaninoff.Dudley House, Lehman Hall, 8 p.m. $8 for generaladmission; $4 for students and seniors. Ticketsare available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office...