Word: kremer
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...Concerto Grosso No. 4 turning up on MTV. But no living composer of so-called serious music exerts so much hold on the imagination and loyalty of his interpreters as does the reclusive Schnittke, 59. Performers from the old East bloc such as violinist Gidon Kremer, a fellow Soviet emigre, cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and conductor Kurt Masur have been championing his works for years. Now, it seems, the rest of the world is catching...
...COMPOSERS TO EMERGE FROM the collapse of the Soviet Union, the most significant is ALFRED SCHNITTKE. Long a word-of-mouth favorite of emigre artists like violinist Gidon Kremer, Schnittke, 58, has a firm grasp of structure, a masterly hand with orchestration and, most important, a distinctive, expressive voice. A new London/Decca recording of Schnittke's Concerti Grossi Nos. 3 and 4 displays his gifts in full flower. The Third (1985) harks back to Bach in a tour de force of stylistic synthesis, while the 1988 Fourth (which, confusingly, the composer also calls his Symphony No. 5) takes an unfinished...
...This was really the great 'aha' moment," MacCready says. Stopping along the way in Aspen to visit Murray Gell-Mann, who was vacationing there, MacCready announced that he had figured out how to win the Kremer prize. "He was that definite," Gell-Mann recalls...
Random thoughts occurred: the $100,000 note he had co-signed to help a relative and now must repay. The news item about the value of the British pound rising to two dollars. The unclaimed 50,000 pounds Kremer prize awaiting the first person to achieve a mile-long, controlled, human-powered flight. "Suddenly this light bulb just glowed over my head," MacCready recalls. "Fifty thousand pounds was worth $100,000, which would pay off the debt...
...MacCready's two older sons, Parker and Tyler, were soon flying it for short distances, rising a few feet above the ground. After another ten months and many crashes and revisions, Bryan Allen, a bicycle racer and hang-glider pilot, successfully flew the Condor around the Kremer course, ensuring MacCready's place in history...