Word: indjic
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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Labelled the "musical highlight of Winterfest," Tuesday's Boston Symphony concert marked the first appearance of a Harvard undergraduate as soloist, pianist Eugene Indjic '69. His performance certainly justified the honor; an achievement even more impressive considering the piece, the hall, and the conductor. Indjic chose to play Brahm's Piano Concerto No. 2, one of the largest and most formidable of piano works. Aside from its extreme technical demands, the concerto presents a challenge of organization; most critically, of pacing and uniting the sprawling first movement, a problem of drama as well as form. The last three movements, while...
When assessing a musician, the impressions of a single performance may be misleading, especially when the restraints of an orchestra are involved. Yet Indjic is obviously an artist of great promise, with strong, sure hands and a sound musical imagination. His approach to the Brahms concerto reflected the precision and fidelity of today's younger school of pianists, though occasionally suggestive of Gilels' savagery (in the first movement) and Richter's coloristic indulgences (in the first movement) and Richter's coloristic indulgences (in the third and last). In his best moments, Indjic displayed a facility ranging from unerring power...
...merits of Indjic's showing were his own; the contributions of conductor Erich Leinsdorf fell rather short of the inspirational. While visibly concerned with keeping orchestra and soloist together, he allowed them repeatedly to part company, primarily in the second movement. Orchestral climaxes seemed halfhearted, and the solo playing (that of cellist Jules Eskin) almost mediocre. For all his apparent courtesy, Leinsdorf did little to assist the pianist in matters of detail, and in several instances appeared to intimidate Indjic into hasty exits...
...Eugene Indjic '69 has been invited by Eric Leinsdorf, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to play Branms' Second Piano Concerto at the War Memorial Auditorium on February...
...Indjic, who has studied plano for nine years, did not enter a contest for the once last years, and the conductor phoned indjic this week to invite him to be a soloist in the Washington's Birthday concert...