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UCLA film professor Chon A. Noriega examined the life and works of the Latino artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz in the latest of the Latin American Leventritt Lecture Series held at the Sackler Museum last night...
Peter-Klaus Schuster, director of the Berlin Museum of Art, was originally slated to give the lecture, part of the M. Victor Leventritt series sponsored by Harvard’s museums. Schuster could not attend because of “unanticipated conflicts of his duties in Berlin,” according to Cuno...
...Leventritt lecture series this year, entitled “A Changing Picture: European Art Museums Today,” features the directors of several institutions, including the Louvre in Paris, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and the National Gallery in London...
Understandably so. It was the first concerto he ever learned, at age 12, under the watchful eye of his mother. It won him first place in a statewide Texas competition. He played it again to win the Leventritt Award in 1954 and again in Moscow. After his ticker-tape parade up Broadway, his debut recording became the first classical disk ever to reach sales of $1 million, and it featured, of course, the dear old Tchaikovsky...
Mutter and Mullova are just two of the many women violinists of talent and temperament now gracing the world's stages. Korean-born Kyung-Wha Chung, 40, shared first prize in the Leventritt Competition with Pinchas Zukerman in 1967, and has since established herself as a major artist on the strength of her burnished tone and fiery passagework. Chung is a performer of great interpretative range and insight who can light up the night with a blazing Tchaikovsky concerto, probe the intimate, sorrowing mysteries of Alban Berg's twelve-tone essay in the form, or tackle Sir Edward Elgar...