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Today, the music of this small, frail man with the burning eyes of a visionary has found a home in the world's concert halls. If it has proved less popular than Igor Stravinsky's and less influential than Arnold Schoenberg's, it is no less important. BartÓk wrote music of irresistible power and drive, music that in its uncompromising frankness and depth of expression discomfited audiences used to the prettifications of romanticism. Like other great musical figures - Beethoven and Wagner come immediately to mind - BartÓk was a destroyer as well...
...American championship, and Santee finished second. Last week, at the World Figure-Skating Championships in the Hartford, Conn., Civic Center, Santee set out to even the score. But Hamilton came out on top once again, winning the World Championship by the thinnest of margins. Santee placed second, Igor Bobrin of the Soviet Union third. As the three finalists mounted the victory stand, Hamilton and Santee treated their international audience to a good old American high-five handclasp, then stood side by side, gold and silver medals around their necks, and sang The Star-Spangled Banner. It was the first double...
...finishing second in the women's competition. A stylish Swiss, Denise Biellmann, 18, showed a few complicated moves of her own and took the gold. And once more, the Soviets proved that at least one factory is meeting its production quota quite successfully: Irina Vorobieva and Igor Lisovski won the gold medal for pairs, joining a line of Russian couples champions that stretches back five Olympiads...
Maurizio Pollini: Piano Music of the 20th Century. Igor Stravinsky: Three Movements from "Petrushka. "Serge Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7. Béla Bartók: Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos. I and 2. Arnold Schönberg: 17 short piano pieces. Anton Webern: Variations for Piano. Pierre Boulez: Second Sonata for Piano. Luigi Nono: Music for Soprano, Piano, Orchestra and Magnetic Tape (Slavka Taskova, soprano, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunks, Claudio Abbado, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon, five LPs). Pollini's herculean fingering stands out even in that select circle of great young pianists to which...
...Igor Bobrowsky Upper Montclair...