Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes late, but took the time to lock his new calculator--an $800 model from Hewlett-Packard that can run a computer program--deep in his trunk, pushing aside neatly arranged tools and a box of his own microphones, still in his car since Yo Yo Ma's last concert. Horowitz tapes many of the cellist's concerts, using equipment he designed and built himself, as he has become good friends with Ma. In college Horowitz played a little cello himself--he was better at building metronomes--and was an early fan of Ma's. When he was looking...
Today Igor ranks as the foremost harpsichordist of the day. In addition to his appearances with the Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony this season, he will give 40 or so recitals across the U.S., arriving for each concert with his 10-ft.-long Rutkowski and Robinette harpsichord neatly bundled inside a Chevrolet Sportvan. Between 1964 and 1971, Kipnis made 14 superlative discs for Epic and Columbia-notably a choice LP of short works, The Harmonious Blacksmith, that remains the best single recorded introduction to the instrument and its music. This week Angel, for whom Kipnis has recorded since 1972, releases...
...makes a careful effort to avoid bringing in too much musical esoterica--he occasionally calls time out to explain such things as diminished seventh chords and the harmonic series, and then apologizes, saying "But you knew all that." But when he talks about linguistics the Young People's Concert atmosphere disappears and the jargon rolls in thick enough...
Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat; Chabrier: Suite Pastorale (Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray conducting; Mercury, $6.98). Bloch: Concert! Gross! Nos. 1 and 2 (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting; Mercury, $6.98). In the 1950s and '60s, Mercury made an impressive series of U.S. recordings ranging from the nonpareil French interpretations of Paray to the indispensable catalogue of contemporary Americans by Hanson. Many long unavailable, they are now back as part of a novel reissue program. Mercury sent the tapes to The Netherlands, where its sister company Philips provided its usual superior pressings, then shipped them back to be marketed...
That career was a capsule history of show business. Benny Kubelsky, a poor Jewish kid from Waukegan, III., was something of a prodigy on the violin; his father, a small-time haberdasher, entertained hopes of a concert career. But by 1912 the brash kid had practical-joked his way out of school and onto the vaudeville stage. His solo act, A Few Minutes with Jack Benny, swiftly became the country's most civilized performance. When Jack tried a Broadway revue, Robert Benchley marveled at his savoir-faire. Yet somehow Benny always seemed a cut below headliner status...