Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buswell it was the third major concert appearance in Cambridge this semester. This time the program consisted of the three even-numbered sonatas for violin and harpsichord by J. S. Bach, for which occasion Valenti's custom-made two-manual, seven-stop Challis (featuring among other things, a 16-foot stop and a metal sounding board) was carted up by station wagon from New York. The combined reputations of composer and performers insured a capacity audience, which as it turned out subsumed the entire range of musical appreciation from hedonism to intellectuality. Some came to analyze, some to envy...
...Next year, the Glee Club will give its own concerts both in the fall and spring, and sing with the Choral Society in a December weekend tour, as well as collaborating with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in February," Forbes said. "The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus is hoping to start its season with a Christmas concert with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra," he added...
Everywhere, however, his latest batch of recordings-five, all told-were pouring forth like gabby world travelers, which indeed they are. Four years after his withdrawal from public concert life, Pianist Gould is still pursuing one of the most remarkable careers in recording history. First, there is his initial installment of Book 2 of The Well-Tempered Clavier, dazzlingly executed, imaginatively shaped, proving more than ever that while Gould's Bach is invariably different from anybody else's, it invariably has its own kind of rightness. Then there are Mozart's first five piano sonatas, which...
Liszt's Fifth by Beethoven. In his concert days, when he was not singing along, Gould liked to conduct himself with whichever hand he could free at any moment. So it is not surprising that he has finally got around to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The piano transcription was written by Keyboard Demon Franz Liszt, meaning that both hands are too busy for shenanigans. Gould plays it in respectful dedication to both Liszt and Beethoven. The Fifth is largely free of Liszt's frequent pianistic bombastics and remarkably faithful to the original-save for an occasional missing...
...Bach Society Orchestra concert was the major disappointment of last week's musical offerings. Many heads could roll when a collective effort like this goes awry, but the conductor, John Adams is the one who must stand in the dock...