Word: interlochen
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Kenneth Bookstein spent most of his summer at Interlochen Music Festival breaking into the women's dormitory. His motives were really quite innocent, however--he simply wanted to practice on the building's nine-foot grand. Now one Harvard pianist ponders Bookstein's reputed eight-hour practicing binges here: "He must have made some sort of deal with the department secretary who controls the keys...
...side. Soon after, Director Akira Kurosawa picked him to perform the score for the movie Yojimbo, and at 16 he made his first solo appearance, playing Milhaud's Percussion Concerto with the Osaka Philharmonic. He traveled to the U.S. in 1964 and won a scholarship to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. Later on Yamash'ta founded his own jazz quintet in Boston...
...Pianist Van Cliburn played at Michigan's Interlochen National Music Camp, recorded two Chopin sonatas in a New York studio, packed the Hollywood Bowl for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, and ate a folksy dinner with his parents and friends at their home in Shreveport, La. In between times, he mused about himself, his fame and his music: "The role of a concert artist in a concert hall will never be eclipsed...
...devoted fans would be thinking of her at curtain time, read the telegram, and it was signed "Mother, Daddy and Lynda." But they needn't have worried. For each of her two drawling but nonchalant narrations of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf at Michigan's Interlochen Music Camp, Luci Baines Johnson, 17, drew three curtain calls when she performed with Pianist Van Cliburn, 30, who conducted the camp's 150-member student orchestra. Whatever criticism Luci Baines is going to get (and under the circumstances, it will scarcely be fanged), will come when her version...
...National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich., where 1,600 students from eight through college age take lessons on their instruments, play in orchestras, sing in choruses, dance, paint, act and live a rugged life in rustic surroundings...