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...Stern contributed the North American premiere of French Composer Henri Dutilleux's impressionistic concerto. The same month Virtuoso Shlomo Mintz played Marc Neikrug's neoromantic concerto for the second time, having presented its world premiere in 1984. And this week Sergiu Luca will give the American premiere of William Bolcom's frisky new concerto in Pittsburgh (he introduced it in 1984 in Saarbrucken, West Germany...
...terrible to live under the onus of playing only masterpieces," says Luca, who has a small one in the Bolcom. "If I am able to enjoy the work and can convince someone else that it is enjoyable, then it's worth playing...
...music making pervades everything they do and even comes through on their LPs. One of their best is the Schubert Symphony No. 5 (Sound 80). It is impeccable in its details, and yet it breathes with spontaneity and ardor. Another notable release, on Nonesuch, contains pieces by William Bolcom, including Commedia, one of many works commissioned by the orchestra...
Clear Chords. The current Joplin vogue is now five years old. it began when a record company, Nonesuch, began issuing Joplin albums played by such "straight" pianists as Joshua Rifkin and William Bolcom. It gained distinction in 1972 when Vera Brodsky Lawrence, an ex-concert pianist, brought out a two-volume edition of Joplin's printed music. The film The Sting made Joplin's The Entertainer a national hit. This year came the bestselling novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (TIME, July 14); a central figure is the black ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. As Walker sits down...
Amateur Painter. This week, on the 75th anniversary of Gershwin's birth, the music, record and publishing worlds are paying tribute to that originality, and to the man behind it. Among the new LPs, the most irresistible is a Nonesuch release on which William Bolcom plays Gershwin's piano pieces, including the composer's variations on songs like Clap Yo'Hands, S'Wonderful and, of course, Swanee. An exhibition at Manhattan's Hallmark Gallery shows Gershwin to have been versatile enough to double as a gifted amateur painter and caricaturist, if somewhat prone...