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Isaac D. Hurwitz '53, assistant concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony, and pianist Raymond Rendall, associate professor of music at Wesleyan, will perform in the Adams House lower common room at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. On the admission-free program will be sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Charles Ives.
His gestures are so economical that the audience often fails to see them; when the orchestra is surging forward on its own momentum, Dixon may suspend conducting entirely for bars on end. Such restrained emotion is reflected in Dixon's musicmaking. It is neither hot-bloodedly Tuscan, in the...
The Six Pieces for Orchestra, written, incredibly, in 1909, reflect the expressionism Webern adopted from Schoenberg. They realize his credo, "Once stated, the theme expresses all it has to say; it must be followed by something fresh." At the same time, they embrace the musical principles of the Brahms from...
"Who's boss in a concerto-the conductor or the soloist?" rhetorically demanded the New York Philharmonic's Maestro Leonard Bernstein, 43, in his latest outburst of podium pedagogy. Answer: "Sometimes one, sometimes the other, but almost always the two manage to get together"-except in the case...
Barenboim has honed his talents on a wide variety of masters: Bach, Mozart. Schubert. Brahms. Beethoven (by age 14, he knew all 32 of the Beethoven sonatas). He works at the piano only about two hours a day, because "you may lose freshness if you sit all day practicing." sometimes...