Word: concertizer
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...which to build an orchestra was not one to boast of as compared with that of previous years, yet the Pierian developed so consistently that its performance more than equalled that of any past year. The program of modern French and Flemish music given at the Annual Concert in Sanders Theatre was a difficult one for any amateur orchestra to undertake, particularly the symphony of Dukas', and was much beyond anything the Pierian has attempted before. Yet it was rendered with at least as much feeling and as good technique as the programs of the recent annual concerts. The concert...
...harp; Zwilich’s Passages (1981); and Brahms’ Piano Trio in B Major. Sunday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $25-$42, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Student rush $5, begins at 6:30 on the day of concert. Sanders Theater...
...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...
...personally thank and shake the hands of the better part of the audience. An impassioned opening speech, in which he expressed his belief that we must rail against our “generation of vipers” and seek our own independence, set the mood for the truly unique concert...
When Libeskind began studying architecture at Cooper Union in New York City, he was just 19 years old, but it already represented a career change for him. For years as a teenager he had been a concert pianist and--why not?--an accordionist. He says merely that his interests shifted. All the same, he found time last year to design and direct Messiaen's opera St. Francis of Assisi at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, and he is working on sets for a full cycle of Wagner's Ring at London's Covent Garden. But Libeskind rarely touches the piano anymore...