Word: concerto
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Mstislav Rostropovich was there, wrapping his cello in a warm Russian bear hug as he dashed off two movements of a Haydn concerto. Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern were on hand too, the picture of collegial conviviality in a Vivaldi double concerto. Soprano Leontyne Price, the diva di tutte le dive, sang arias by Verdi, Richard Strauss and Puccini with resplendent warmth and freshness. And there was Pianist Rudolf Serkin, happily singing along as he performed in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy. At the end, Isaac Stern struck up Happy Birthday, and 2,600 fashionably dressed folk in Symphony...
...composers, including such disparate figures as Aaron Copland and Howard Hanson, under his wing. Continuing this tradition, the B.S.O. is celebrating its birthday by commissioning twelve new works from leading international composers; after all, this is the orchestra responsible for such masterpieces as Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms...
...have all been marred by Ozawa's ponderous interpretations. Ozawa's depth has long been questioned, and he is generally much more successful with the romantic warhorses or even modern pieces-as he was with the world premiere of Robert Starer's lean but melodic Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's noisy Francesca da Rimini-than he is with the classical repertory...
During high school, he played a Concert Artists' Guild recital in Steinway hall, played the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto with a local orchestra, and taught himself to accompany choral music on piano. It was this skill that brought him into the choral music circle that was blossoming his freshman year under "Woody"--G. Wallace Woodworth. Krieger accompanied the Glee Club throughout his undergraduate years, after which, in one of his two breaks away from Harvard choral music since 1955, he attended medical school at Western Reserve. During his time there, he accompanied the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, under the direction...
...Harbison saw productions of his first two operas, Winter's Tale and Full Moon in March. The past 15 months brought two major premieres: the Violin Concerto, which he wrote for his violinist wife Rose Mary, and the Piano Concerto, which won the Kennedy Center prize. Earlier this month in Santa Fe, two new Harbison works got their first performances. Mottetti di Montale is a darkly elegiac, 50-minute song cycle based on po ems by Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet who won the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Piano Quintet is a spare and acerbic five-movement...