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...winners of the annual Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concerto contest were Allan D. Vogel '65, of Adams House and New York City, an oboeist, and Robert D. Levin '68, of Greenough Hall and Rosedale, N.Y., a pianist. The two will play in a concerto concert with the Orchestra in the spring...
...Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall, stocky Kimio Eto adjusted his formal robes and settled before a 6-ft.-long stringed instrument that looked like the fuselage of an unfinished model airplane. He bowed again, and a kettledrum thundered to begin the premiere of Modernist Composer Henry Cowell's Concerto for Koto and Orchestra, the first concerto ever composed by a Westerner for the 1,100-year-old Japanese instrument...
Cowell has a special affection for koto music. As a boy he lived in San Francisco's Japantown, was serenaded daily with Japanese music emanating from a koto school across the street from his home. When Eto approached him in 1960 with the idea of creating a koto concerto, the composer was immediately receptive. After spending three weeks boning up on the instrument at a koto school in Tokyo, Cowell completed the work in 1962. To study the piece, Eto had to transcribe it from piano to tape recorder to Braille. "Much work," he sighs. Eto hopes that other...
BRAHMS: FANTASIES OPUS 116 (Deutsche Grammophon). What Van Cliburn lacks in the Brahms concerto, Pianist Wilhelm Kempff supplies here in full measure, condensing a whole spectrum of feelings into these seven melodic miniatures of Brahms's maturity...
HINDEMITH: KAMMERMUSIK NO. 4 and KURT WEILL: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Westminster). The young Hungarian-born violinist Robert Gerle has chosen some nearly trackless territory to explore, but he is led by that experienced pioneer, Hermann Scherchen. conducting the Vienna Wind Group and other instrumentalists...