Word: concertants
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...heavy-metal concert had already ended at West Hollywood's House of Blues. But upstairs, in the nightclub's Foundation Room, the party rocked on. The VIP area, decked out in opium-den chic, is where show-biz types go to guzzle champagne in roped-off security. Unfortunately, by the time rock-music pioneer Phil Spector met B-movie actress Lana Clarkson there, the careers of both had seen better days: he was a legendary has-been; she had been a wannabe for way too long. The encounter would prove fatal...
Without question, the major turning point in my life was in 1954, the first time I heard Karl Bohm and the Vienna Philharmonic. I went into what I think is the finest concert hall in the world, the Musikverein of Vienna, and heard one of the great orchestras play Brahms. I didn't know such a sound existed...
...first concert. All I had heard before this point in my native Bombay was our local, semiprofessional orchestra or records, and records in the early 1950s didn't have the sound we are used to today...
...went there to study at the Academy of Music, and that Brahms concert was on one of my first days there. After I enrolled in school, I started going to rehearsals of the Vienna Philharmonic. I learned by looking at the great conductors firsthand and by studying at the academy with one of the great teachers of the 20th century, Hans Swarowsky. The Vienna Philharmonic opened my ears and Swarowsky opened my mind to the treasures of the Viennese classics. To this day, the huge musical arc that starts with Haydn and goes to Webern constitutes 80% of my repertoire...
...magnetic, largely silent performance in Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama almost compensates for The Pianist’s inconsistent tone and distasteful political sensibilities. Brody’s Wladek Szpilman, who could hardly have picked a worse time and place to be Jewish, transforms from cocky concert pianist to starving phantom hunted by Nazis after escaping death in the bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction of universally heroic Poles...