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FIZDALE: We are pianists but we are both also frustrated authors. GOLD: Turgenev is as moving to me as Chopin. I wrote a play once, well, two acts...
...sometimes comes. It's a synesthetic reaction." His preferences in music are in line with his predilections as a photographer: a preference for large structures, commanding themes and plenty of orchestral color. "I've always liked heroic music. I can't stand Debussy and Ravel. I like Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Scriabin?anything architectural and big has much more appeal...
America's first world-class musician, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, built a precocious career on three isms: romanticism, pianism and giganticism. He had the dazzling keyboard technique of his European contemporaries, Liszt and Chopin, and a languid, aristocratic sexuality as well. Women vied for the white gloves he tossed aside before sitting down to play-and often for other favors afterward. His recitals, heavily laced with showpieces of his own composing, catered unabashedly to the florid, sentimental taste of the day. On occasion he disdained using one piano where ten or 14 would do. During the years before his death...
Works of Besthoven and Chopin--Greg Lauffer, plano; Cabot Living Rm., South House...
Works of Beethoven, Mendelsohn, Bartok and Chopin--Susan Hatfield, Piano; Lowell...