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David Gross is a pianist with plenty of technique and musical understanding. At Leverett House Sunday afternoon he played works by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Gross performed with breadth of conception; he plays in continuous wholes, in entire pieces, rather than in contiguous notes and phrases. This is an elusive quality, more to be felt than analyzed, but it is a considerable merit and without it music cannot have true formal coherence...
...Chopin's B-minor Scherzo was impetuous enough, but somehow a little unyielding. Three Brahms pieces concluded the program: Opus 11 No. 1, and Opus No.119 No.3 and No. 4. Gross played all the music in this last group with great energy, sometimes verging upon ferocity. His conception of this music is in the grand manner, with robust tempos and high-toned fortissimos. If an occasional passage was not executed with perfect technical ease, this did not destroy the total effect, not interrupt the continuity, which seems to be Gross' first concern. It is not surprising that such a spirited...
Lubow, a student of Claudio Arrau, won the Pierian Sodality Concerto contest this spring. At Town Hall he will perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Prokofieff...
...down, but while the story lasts, the reader is firmly held by the question of whether Emmet Booth will finally win. His pursuit of Miranda has the tried and true fascination of that famous cliche from East-of-Suez movies: the beautiful planter's wife playing Chopin while, across the terrace, a large speckled snake glides towards the heroine, ready to strike that lovely neck...
...twins, who dressed identically until the day they were married (in a double wedding), and still find that they occasionally buy identical clothes in San Francisco and Chicago. Married to wealthy businessmen, they have many of the same friends, share interests that range from psychiatry to Chopin...