Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Germany, and returned back to his hotel in early evening when it began to snow. Near the entrance to his hotel he caught sight of the local concert manager who upon seeing Horowitz-started gesturing excitedly and informed the pianist that a woman pianist who was to play a concerto that night had fainted during a rehearsal and would be unable to play. He asked Horowitz to substitute...
Roger Kahn is a man of highly varied passions. He loves to read Wallace Stevens and Thomas Hardy. He loves hearing Heifetz play Sibelius' D-minor Violin Concerto. He grew up listening to Sir John Gielgud recite Shakespeare on brittle 78-r.p.m. records and in the '40s saw Paul Robeson's towering Othello. He has a passion for all these pleasures-and sports as well...
...Benefit Gala Concert--Jordan Hall, Boston--8 p.m.--program of Purcell, Mendelsshon, Bach (Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, featuring Lynn Chang '75), Beethoven, and Villa Lobos. Info...
Tanglewood. Ozawa conducts Rochberg Violin Concerto, Isaac Stern, violin, and Brahms Symphony...
...performance of Leon Kirchner's 1960 Concerto for Violin, Cello, 10 winds, and percussion which followed, also carried this sense of motion and drive. Kirchner, in comments on this work, has emphasized the extent to which he has retained roots in music like the Back, rather than concentrating only on the "nowness" of modern music. The Concerto reflects this concern, as Kirchner writes in the modern idiom, but with warmth and not numbing austerity. On Tuesday night, the brass and percussion were especially noteworthy; the former carrying out their role as an antiphonal block, the latter as understated punctuation. Lawrence...