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...recording limit of 78s). The group creates some smooth grooves, and the guitar playing is predictably spectacular, but in the process of stretching the songs Clapton strips them of their intensity. Billy Preston's bouncy keyboards make 32-20 Blues sound like a Country Bear Jamboree performance of Chopin's Funeral March, while the snare hits and harmonica clichés on Traveling Riverside Blues sound like Johnson channeled through a Michelob ad. Clapton's vocals don't help matters. You can tell he's ecstatic to be covering his idol, but his exuberance increases the disconnection between the music...
...Sandor, he's nearing the achievement of the legendary Mieczyslaw Horszowski, who continued to perform at the piano after his 100th birthday. Horszowski's mother had studied with a pupil of Frederic Chopin, and she gave her son his first lessons in 1895, when he was 3. In Horszowski's 98th year of musicmaking, people marveled at his longevity and were even more impressed by his artistry. Sandor explains Horszowski's endurance with the confidence of an insider. "I tell people that the first 90 years are hard," he says. "After that, it's easy...
Thus, we got knock-out freshman violinist Stefan Jackiw (remeber that name), as well as some seriously glamorous Chopin played by campus celebrity Berenika Zakrzewski ’04, in a sparkling full-out ball gown and a liter of hairspray...
Berenika D. Zakrzewski ’04, a music concentrator who performed a solo Chopin piece on the piano, said the night gave her the unique opportunity to share what she’s learned at Harvard with a broader community...
...most dramatic moments in three revolutionary artists’ lives. The second piece in Hershey Felder’s “imagination in music,” Romantique transports the audience to a momentous summer evening in a country house outside of Paris where Delacroix, Chopin and George Sand have gathered. Set in 1846, the play is a brilliant fusion of Sand’s revelatory writings, Delacroix’s poignant art and Chopin’s masterful music. Runs Friday, August 1 through Sunday, August 17. Tickets $45; $35 for students, senior citizens and subscribers, available...