Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). "Forever Beethoven!" The first movement of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, second and third movements of Concerto No. 4 in G Major and the Leonore Overture No. 3, featuring Pianist Joseph Kalichstein...
...Meanwhile, Mines has become established in the European repertory, with performances in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden, and one now in preparation in Czechoslovakia. With three operas (including an early one-acter), four string quartets, two symphonies, and a sheaf of smaller pieces to his credit-and a piano concerto and another opera in progress-Bennett has already reached a point envied by most composers and attained by a few: he can live quite comfortably off his royalties...
...Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak Hebrew." After the other guests had chanted Hasidic songs for the couple, Mehta sang themes from Dvorak's Cello Concerto and Beethoven's Hamrnerklavier sonata with Hebrew inflections. Later he told the rabbi they were old Persian Jewish hymns...
...James Richman's performance of the Mendelssohn Concerto in G Minor lacked the necessary technical expertise." On the contrary, this is what it had above all else. Mr. Richman also showed a fine intellectual understanding of the piece; all that I found lacking was a sensitivity to its musical content...
...reviewer describes Tonu Kalam's playing of the Beethoven First Concerto as "superficial." In actuality, it was the performance I found myself listening most carefully to in order to pick out the subtle, sometimes eccentric, nuances and the intelligent ideas about the musical nature of the piece. Surely this sort of original music-making most deserves to be heard with...