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Friday night's guest soloist was Richard Kogan, winner of the 1974 HRO Concerto Competition. Kogan is a 19-year-old freshman who upon arrival last fall was immediately welcomed in musical circles as the most accomplished pianist at Harvard in many years. He has studied piano since age seven with Nadia Reisenberg in New York City and with Nadia Boulanger last summer in France, and his performance of the Liszt E Flat Piano Concerto was exceptional. This is as it should be--one of the greatest virtuoso pianists who ever lived, Liszt was fond of composing fiery technical showpieces...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Listz: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Richard Kogan, soloist); Beethoven: Symphony No. 2; Piston: Symphony No. 6. Tickets: $1.50 (students with ID: $1). Friday, March...
...spontaneity, hundreds of indignant letter writers spewed forth abuse against the two intellectuals in the pages of Pravda, Izvestia and other official newspapers. In part, the list of Sakharov's and Solzhenitsyn's accusers read like an "S. Hurok presents" concert program. Violinists David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan wrote that Sakharov is "stirring up the dying coals of the cold war." Dmitri Shostakovich, who once praised Stalin for his "wise and delicate" musical advice, joined Aram Khachaturian and other composers in accusing Sakharov of debasing "the honor and dignity of the Soviet intelligentsia." Scientists, writers, even farmers...
...right. One fairly new journal, founded by post-college Jews in 1968 but only now making real gains in readership, is Ideas, a self-styled "journal of conservative thought" aimed at intellectuals. Its conservatism extends to politics as well as theology. One article last year by Editor Michael S. Kogan was called "Ignorance Abroad"-and turned out to be a fierce anti-Communist tract warning of the dangers of policies of accommodation with China...
...loosening Moscow's rigidly centralized economic control, and his ideas are now widely emulated in Eastern Europe. An estimated one-third of the Soviet Academy of Sciences is Jewish. Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and perhaps 90% of the Bolshoi Orchestra are Jewish, as are Violinists Leonid Kogan and David Oistrakh and Pianist Emil Gilels. Nor do the Soviet Jews face the open, rampant persecution that German Jews endured in Hitler's Third Reich. But that is small consolation for the vast majority of Russia's 3,500,000 Jews who suffer job discrimination, racial slurs...