Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rises by 5 a.m. every day to begin working at an upright piano in his suburban Paris apartment. The son of a Marseille postal inspector, he learned piano and violin from his father, entered the Marseille Conservatory at ten, and soon seemed headed for the life of a concert pianist. Instead, he veered off into a jazz career at 17, eventually became interested in the wider instrumental palette and richer sonorities of pop arranging. Established though he was in the profession, he remained a blank to the public, since French disk jockeys rarely credit orchestra leaders by name. But that...
Milhaud had delivered Music for New Orleans, a 30-minute orchestral piece commissioned for last week's symphony concert in honor of the city's 250th anniversary. After studying it and rehearsing it, Conductor Torkanowsky pronounced it "a disappointment" and substituted Milhaud's 1923 composition...
...Creation du Monde, on the program. "As the greatest living French composer, Milhaud deserves to be represented in our concert only by his best work," Torkanowsky said in a public statement. "We do not propose to present him at what might be his worst." Furthermore, he said, the new work "would be a disappointment to the audience and to the spirit of the 250th anniversary...
...ONLY amateurs should play music," said someone in the audience at Saturday's Bach Society concert. The kind of excitement about the music that John Adams elicits in the members of his orchestra carries composers' intentions to audiences and makes the Bach Society Orchestra a fine group...
PROKOFIEV: THE COMPLETE MUSIC FOR SOLO PIANO (Vox; 2 Vols., each 3 LPs). Composer Sergei Prokofiev was an accomplished concert pianist, and he left a large and lively legacy for his instrument. These recordings include such meditation miniatures as the 20 Visions Fugitives and nine sonatas, among them the famous Seventh, completed during the Battle of Stalingrad. One expects in Prokofiev dissonance, humor, percussiveness and strong drive; yet there is also much sheer lyrical beauty. Budapest-born Gyorgy Sandor plays the melodic passages poignantly and is a sure guide through the harshest chordal clashes-sometimes passionate, sometimes witty, always lucid...