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...Gunnar Johansen, 63, gets a phone call at the University of Wisconsin, where he has been artist-in-residence since 1939. Boris Sokoloff, manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra, is on the line. Conductor Eugene Ormandy and Pianist Peter Serkin have disagreed on the interpretation of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in D Major, which Serkin was to play with the Philadelphians in Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall the following evening. Could Johansen fill in? Johansen has never even heard the piece, a little-known transcription by Beethoven of his only violin concerto. He dashes next door to the music library...
...study of the score. He has had plenty of experience. Trained in Berlin by Egon Petri, he played concerts in Europe for four years before moving to the U.S. in 1929. He has made five previous New York appearances, notably a 1966 performance of Busoni's challenging Piano Concerto. But now the magnitude of what he has undertaken overwhelms him. At a hotel, he recites "a prayer to Ludwig for help," and drops off to sleep...
...winners of the annual Harvard Concerto Contest are Norman Letvin, who played the Premiere Rhapsody for clarinet by Debussy, and Ronald Takvorian, who performed Prokofieff's Third Piano Concerto, Both winners will appear as soloists in a forthcoming HRO concert. The other participants were Philip Kraft; Richard Metzler; Jane Meyers; Michael Reisman; William Spady; Jonathan Taylor; and Taite S. Walkenen...
...records, A Whiter Shade of Pale, by England's Procol Harum, was arranged around an organ theme inspired by Bach's organ setting of the chorale Wachetauf. Beatle George Harrison admits that the soaring trumpet obbligato in Penny Lane was inspired by the Second Brandenburg Concerto. Three of the five members of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble are Juilliard products who double on oboe, organ and cello in order to alternate, and sometimes combine, Bach's structure with rock's fluidity...
...stretch on indefinitely. Then, in 1966, Conductor Herbert von Karaj an re-established him in Europe overnight by choosing him to open the season with the Berlin Philharmonic. Last year the comeback was completed in the U.S. when Weissenberg dashed off an exhilarating version of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the New York Philharmonic. As his performance of Chopin's Concerto No. 2 last week showed, his playing nowadays bristles with the strength of a new maturity...