Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work was the romantic, bravura Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor by Rachmaninoff, who had personally blessed Horowitz' interpretation with the words, "He swallowed it whole." Horowitz had insisted on the Philadelphia Orchestra's Eugene Ormandy as the conductor; Ormandy had accompanied Rachmaninoff himself in the concerto. Tickets were awesomely priced: $75 for the orchestra, $250 for the first-tier box seats. But just try to find one. And anyway the concert was a benefit and all $168,000 of the gross -Horowitz and Ormandy donated their services-would go into the orchestra's coffers...
Schumann: Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 (Pianist Lazar Berman, Columbia/Melodiya). Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Pianist Lazar Berman, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado conductor, Columbia). Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage (Pianist Lazar Berman, Deutsche Grammophon; 3 LPs). More product, to borrow the record-company jargon, from the pianist who burst out of Russia two years ago and has been a one-man industry ever since. The less said about Berman's Schumann the better: he simply does not feel the music. No problems with the Rachmaninoff. Here is the fabled Berman technique operating with all its power, speed and subtlety...
...composer of film, theater and television scores; of pneumonia; in London. He went to Broadway in 1933 and later worked on such movies as A Tale of Two Cities and Goodbye Mr. Chips, but none of his compositions ever reached the popularity of his 1941 war horse, the Warsaw Concerto...
...audience to view the ballet as "pure dance." Yet this limited view is not totally stifling, as the dance, a supreme masterpiece of the Russian tradition, contains some of the most exquisitely harmonious choreography ever devised--and some of the most demanding. It is structured something like a concerto, the Swan Queen's solos (or pas-dedeux with the Prince) alternating with ensemble passages for the corps de ballet of swan-maidens...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, appears Saturday for its first concert of the season. HRO presents Beethoven and Mozart, plus Natalie Hinderas, winner of the Leventritt Competition, as soloist in the Ginastera Piano Concerto No. 1. Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral") should be a proud showcase of the talent of the HRO instrumentalists. The orchestra has also selected the Overture to "The Magic Flute," one of Mozart's finest and most popular short works. The concert is Saturday at 8:30 at Sanders Theatre. Tickets are available at Holyoke Center...