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...fine technique when not obscured by the instrument's problems. Given that the Bach was the first of two programs that same evening, the wisest decision would have been to abandon the harpsichord, switching to piano for the rest of the Bach as well as the entire de Falla concerto...
...Portney explained that it was hot (more than obvious to everyone in the room) and that he wished to tune the violin. When finished, he continued the cadenza from his stopping point. As one amused orchestral member put it later, it was the first-ever four-movement Tchaikovsky violin concerto...
Gerry Moshell has put together a high-powered program of concertos at Kirkland House this Friday night. Two of the best violinists in the area are soloists, Robert Portney in the Tchaikovsky concerto and Ronan Lefkowitz (with Barbara Jacobson, vlute, and Hugh Wolff, harpsichord) in the Bach Fifth Brandenburg. Moshell is soloist in a DeFalla harpsichord concerto. No excuse for missing this: it's free and given twice the same evening, at 8:30 and midnight...
KIRKLAND HOUSE JCR. Concerto Program: Tchaikovsky (Violin); Bach (Brandenburg No. 5); and De Falla (Harpsichord). Free. Friday, October 12, 8:30 p.m. and Midnight...
...room mix-ups - pianists have lately been coping with a rash of recalcitrant and faulty instruments. "Twice in two weeks I've had the keys come right off the piano," says Byron Janis. "In Flagstaff, Arizona, I was in the middle of Rachmaninoff's G-Minor Piano Concerto when all of a sudden a tiny jagged piece of wood jabbed my finger where the B-flat had been a second before. A week later at the University of Maryland, a bass A-flat flew off as I was finishing a Chopin sonata - they glued it back with...