Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST difficult tests of a good orchestra and its conductor is the accompaniment of a virtuoso soloist in a concerto. The weaknesses of the group are too often highlighted by playing with an outstanding musician, and its sloppy playing can detract from the best solo instrumentalist's performance...
Gerry Moshell and his fall pickup orchestra, the Kirkland Concertgebouw, will deliver the well-loved Grieg piano concerto and Mendelssohn violin concerto Saturday night. Starring will be the dynamic violin-piano duo of Lynn Chang and Richard Kogan, who will also perform solo works of Chopin and Tartini. At 8, with a repeat performance at 11; Kirkland...
Special featured soloist this Saturday night will be Harvard's whiz violinist Lynn Chang, performing Mendelssohn's well-known violin concerto...
Switched-on Bach, the burbling and tootling re-creations of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and other works on the Moog synthesizer, has become the best-selling "classical" record of all time (3 million copies sold worldwide to date). None of the subsequent sons of SOB (The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, Moog Strikes Back) has ever managed to overtake the original, but the newest and most interesting challenger is Tokyo's Isao Tomita, 43. After a slow start last year, his RCA album Snowflakes are Dancing (electronic versions of Debussy piano pieces) has passed the 200,000 mark. Three months...
Bach, Double Concerto for Two Violins, and Brandenburg Concerto #4, and Mozart, Violin Concerto in D-Major; Ronan Lefkowitz and Robert Manero, violins, and Marilyn Chohaney and John Thow, flutists; Quincy Dining Hall...