Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Labelled the "musical highlight of Winterfest," Tuesday's Boston Symphony concert marked the first appearance of a Harvard undergraduate as soloist, pianist Eugene Indjic '69. His performance certainly justified the honor; an achievement even more impressive considering the piece, the hall, and the conductor. Indjic chose to play Brahm's Piano Concerto No. 2, one of the largest and most formidable of piano works. Aside from its extreme technical demands, the concerto presents a challenge of organization; most critically, of pacing and uniting the sprawling first movement, a problem of drama as well as form. The last three movements, while...
...while, he continued his tireless round of concertizing. To this day, Rubinstein boasts proudly that he has never canceled a performance. Touring Israel in 1952 he smashed his right hand in a bureau drawer, incapacitating his fourth finger. He played the concert anyway, sticking to his difficult program (which included a piano version of Stravinsky's Petrushka), refingering the pieces as he went along. Everywhere he went, he sold out the house, eventually commanded $6,000 a performance...
...Duke said. I saw I couldn't do much with the piano, so I decided to play a Chopin Polonaise, invariably an effective piece for an unmusical person. When I struck the first big fortissimo chord, the entire piano collapsed at my feet. That was the end of the concert...
...Worst Hours. If there is ever a time when Rubinstein is not his gregarious, fun-loving self, it is in the hours before a concert. If he arrives early, he likes to watch television (he knows the plots of all the soap operas) or go to the movies?any movie. He will practice scales in thirds under his hat while he watches the film, and in the taxi later, he will drum out the right-hand portion of a Chopin etude. Back at the hotel room, as Nela Rubinstein fiddles nervously with her gold necklace, her husband will warm...
...Book Exposure Program; Holmes Hall Concert Series Secretary; Dormitory Committee, Quincy-Holmes Representative; Teacher-Aide Program...