Word: concertos
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...recitals. They often provide much-needed accompanists for many productions and pairs duets. Founder of the Harvard Piano Society Aaron Miller ’02 said, “We saw a need for greater performance opportunity for Harvard pianists, because the only thing available before were the concerto competitions.” Since founding the organization last year they have invited well-known teachers, including Robert Levin, to hold master classes. Such organizations are fully student led and run; it is this enterprising spirit that drives the existence and expansion of classical music on Harvard’s campus...
...Carter ’30 continues to dazzle with a stream of new works. He wrote his first opera two years ago and Yo-Yo Ma ’76 recently premiered his cello concerto with the Chicago Symphony. His intense but accessible modernism is a welcome change from the watered-down simplicity of many of today’s new orchestral works. Symphonia, subtitled Sum fluxae pretium spei (“I am the prize of flowing hope” from 17th-century metaphysical poet Richard Crashaw’s “Bulla”), actually existed...
After intermission, pianist Konstantin Lifschitz performed Brahms’ First Piano Concerto. This was 25-year-old Lifschitz’s overdue Boston debut but the result was somewhat disappointing, especially after such an explosive first half. When Lifschitz released his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the age of 16, he drew comparisons with the great Glenn Gould. One could also make an association with Gould based on his Brahms performance: both pianists took the work at almost unbearably slow tempi. Unlike Leonard Bernstein, who performed the work with Gould in 1962, James Bolle...
...Carnival of the Animals (Hyperion). But Stephen Hough is not your ordinary piano man. Uninterested in going the safe star-soloist route, he revels in playing the music he loves best in smaller cities and with regional orchestras. Yes, that includes Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff and all the other romantic concerto merchants beloved of tradition-minded concertgoers. But his huge repertoire also includes an astonishing variety of other works, among them the challenging yet accessible "new tonalist" music of American composer Lowell Liebermann, the vaporously lyrical cameos of Spanish miniaturist Federico Mompou and Hough's own twinkling transcription of Rodgers...
...short, a totally unsnobby egghead who just happens to have a luminous, envelopingly warm tone and enough technique for any two ordinary pianists. Liebermann, whose Second Concerto he played at Carnegie Hall earlier this year, calls him "one of the greatest intellects, maybe the greatest, that I know of among performers." But Hough begs to differ, at least a little bit: "If that means I have a desire to understand music from the mind as well as from the heart, then I'm happy with the term, but I can't avoid the suspicion that many of the greatest composers...