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...Igor Karpets, Chief of the U.S.S.R...
Bach: Partitas No. 1 in B-Flat and No. 2 in C-Minor. (Igor Kipnis harpsichordist, Angel.) As musical forms go, the Baroque suite or partita was in its old age when Bach decided to have the final word on the subject. He not only included every kind of dance movement previously used (saraband, gigue, minuet) but also introduced some that had not been: capriccio, rondeau and scherzo. The French style of ornamentation, so essential a part of this music, is something Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis has long since mastered. His mordents, appoggiaturas and other embellishments have the ring...
...mastery of one's chosen profession." Young Andrei lost no time in mastering his: by 1942, having graduated with honors in physics from Moscow State University, he went to work in the war industry. After World War II, he studied with the theoretical physicist (and later Nobel laureate) Igor. Tamm. Soon he was at work on the Kremlin's No. 1 priority project: development of the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb. "When I began working on this terrible weapon, I felt subjectively that I was working for peace, that my work would help foster a balance...
...hours before dawn, while his pregnant wife Crystal lies asleep, Warren Zevon struggles to compose a symphony in his backyard studio in North Hollywood. It is an ambitious undertaking for a man who by day is a successful rock songwriter. "When I was 13, I got an autograph from Igor Stravinsky," Zevon recalls. That inspired him to start teaching himself harmony and counterpoint and even to bring a few fledgling compositions to the master's home for his inspection. "When puberty hit, I turned to rock," Zevon goes on. "I could see that when the average attention span...
Tumbling across the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House are 175 assorted singers, dancers, musicians, mimes-even a troupe of Eskimos-all belonging to Igor Moiseyev's Russian Festival of Music and Dance. Audiences applaud their colorful costumes and boisterous folk art, especially the Ukrainians' vigorous squat jumps and the male toe dancers of the Georgian State Dance Theater...