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...Bronx. He is Murray Perahia, 29, a slight, dark, fine-boned pianist who looks rather like some 19th century poet. The music he favors is gentle too. Playing Mendelssohn or Chopin, he closes his eyes, lifts his face toward the ceiling, and effortlessly-sometimes while smiling whimsically-spins out a bright melody. Yet later on in a program, he can also hammer out Bartok with enough flash and thunder to rival anyone's musical fireworks...
Then a year ago, just as his career was beginning to soar, Perahia grounded himself. Success, he explains, "took me by surprise. Suddenly there was no time for anything else. I was labeled a specialist in Chopin and Schumann. Now that's not bad. But I also wanted to learn more Handel, Brahms and Haydn, whether or not I played them in public." He also decided he was "not really a piano buff," that he was more "interested in the ideas behind the music" than in one instrument...
...18th century Italian wooden court theater, transported board by board in 1951 from the Old World to the New. Elegant, intimate, enchanting, with a triple tier of embossed balconies, the Asolo was the great Duse's home theater, and playgoers of a bygone day included Chopin, George Sand and Robert Browning...
Stephen Crist, piano, performs pieces of Chopin, Bach and Beethoven. Dunster House Library...
...picked up no gold medals by then, Dorothy will be the last chance. No matter the stakes of national pride, she will be well worth watching. With a dancer's sense of her own body, an incandescent smile and a skating style as fluid as a Chopin prelude, Dorothy will light up the Olympics...