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We'll get to Harvard soon enough, but still in Boston are concerts by the Boston Symphony and the Boston U. Symphony Orchestra. Seiji Ozawa conducts an all-Respighi concert today at 11 a.m.--"Festa Romane," "Fountains of Rome" and "Pines of Rome." The BSO also performs Haydn's Symphony...
He had one of the most expressive backs in all history. His hands became a legend, and he kept them in the spotlight, even when his players were in penumbral gloom. In his mind's ear he heard orchestral sounds never made before-and proceeded to make them. "Music...
Thus ends for Cincinnati, at least, the drum and cymbal career of Leopold Stokowski, who made Beethoven dance on his ears; who made Brahms a puling, sickly sentimentalist; who calcined Strauss in more clashing and fighting colors than Strauss ever knew; and who Stokowski-ized each composer whom he took...
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel; Three Intermezzi, Op. 117; Three Intermezzi, Op. 119; Rhapsody, Op. 119 No. 4 (Pianist Van Cliburn, RCA). The Handel Variations are often thought of as a piece that only a pianist, or piano buff, could love. In one of his most...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-Minor. (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conductor, Arthur Rubinstein pianist, RCA.) This performance, recorded in mono in 1954. remains the pianist's grandest reading of the work, and Reiner's surging accompaniment turns it into the most satisfying D-Minor on...