Word: chopin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stage, sheepishly informing the audience of 14,000 that he felt unable to play the Rachmaninoff concerto, and so substituted a series of solo encores, including a Szymanowski etude, Liszt's arrangement of Schumann's song Widmung, Debussy's La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune and the Chopin C-sharp minor Scherzo. And then he was gone...
...virtuoso showpiece that got its triumphant American premiere a fortnight ago in Washington. She works closely with composers, advising on matters of technique and, in return for her commission, extracting a promise that the score will be hers exclusively for one year. Her taste runs also to arrangements of Chopin and Joplin, as well as to Japanese and Brazilian music, part of an eclectic approach that is winning her fans around the world...
...impossible. Nor did the White House provide a stage crew. "I felt sorry for him -- he had no one," says Robbins. "So I became a kind of stage manager and kept my eye on everything -- sound, costumes and all." He also threw in a new short ballet, set to Chopin...
...pours out her dreams in poems. On old paper salvaged from her office wastebins, she writes Dias de Mis Suenos, The Days of My Dreams: "I think of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and invite them to a party and give them a gift. Always the night ends with them drinking and playing music that makes me escape from this place...
Dudley House Music Society. Presentspianist Beth Levin performing music by Beethoven,Debussy, Brahms, Chopin and Alan Campbell. LehmanHall, Dudley House, 8 p.m. $4 for students...