Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerto in the repertory. As for Rachmaninoff, he went on to lead one of the few 20th century musical careers that can accurately be called spectacular. Only the Pole Josef Hofmann could be compared with him as a virtuoso pianist, and even Hofmann behaved deferentially around Rachmaninoff. No other concert pianist, except Prokofiev, had Rachmaninoff's stature as a composer. No composer since Liszt ranked as such a keyboard soiree idol...
...revels in the chance to assume fresh identities with every dis guise. Such subtleties, however, are drowned out in the prevailing frenzy of Sidney Lumet's direction, and by the musical score of Mikis Theodorakis, which sounds like a patchwork of his music from Z and a concert of favorite folk songs by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Band...
...London and introduced him to members of her circle, including W.B. Yeats. She designed several of her husband's books and magazines in Paris, and was the mother of Pound's son Omar. During World War II she shared her home and her husband with Concert Pianist Olga Rudge, who had borne Pound a daughter. Dorothy Pound followed her husband to the U.S. in 1945 when, instead of being tried for treason, he was incarcerated in a mental hospital. She became his legal guardian and visited him every day for twelve years. When he was released, she returned...
...play? "Yes," sighs Jane Taylor, the Dorian bassoonist, "I've seen other wind quintets disband simply because they've run out of things to play." The Dorian's solution to the scanty quintet repertory has been virtually to create a new one. In its agile, luminous concert at Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week, the group played 19th Century Czech Composer Anton Reicha's forgotten E-Flat-Major Quintet, Henry Brant's transcription of Bach's Goldberg Variations and a new work that it commissioned from Pulitzer Prize Composer Jacob Druckman, "Delizie Contente...
...chamber music's most sparkling and eloquent ensembles. In 1969 Brooklyn College appointed its members to posts on the music faculty. At about the same time, the State University of New York assigned the group to a "floating residency" consisting of one-to four-day concert-lecture programs at 15 to 20 colleges within the state system each year...