Word: lewins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David Lewin, in an all-Mozart piano recital Sunday afternoon, did for his composer all that may be expected of intelligent and careful musicianship, conscientious preparation, and a highly competent technique. This is very much indeed. In the D-minor Fantasia the audience could not fail to thrill to the sensitively tapered phrasing of the opening arpeggi, the furious and technically accurate rendition of the contrasting scale passages near the middle, and finally the delicate yet sparkling manner in which he tossed off the final Allegro...
...more taxing C-minor Fantasia did not have this unity of conception. In its opening pages, as in the Menuetto of the E-flat Sonata (R. 282), Mr. Lewin played so slowly that one lost the momentum of individual figurations, not to speak of whole phrases. One might also criticize the frequent obtrusion upon the melodic line of reiterated chords and single notes which should serve only as subdued accompaniment...
...superb B-flat Sonata (K. 333) Mr. Lewin also failed to achieve the abandon one might hope for, he yet gave it a fluent and sensitive reading to end this highly satisfying program...
...other new Phi Beta Kappa members are David M. Kalstone of McKeesport, Pa., and Lowell, majoring in History and Literature; David B. Lewin of New York City and Lowell, majoring in Mathematics; Charles D. Parsons of Belmont, Mass., and Dunster, majoring in Mathematics; John H. Updike of Elzerson, Pa., and Lowell, majoring in English; and Calvert W. Watkins of New York City and Lowell, majoring in Linguistics...
...best performed part of the program was Schumann's Kreisleriana. Technique and interpretation were absolutely beyond reproach. But it is difficult to understand why he devoted so many hours of practice to such an undistinguished piece of music. Kreisleriana is dull and repetitions. And Lewin scrupulously palyed all sixteen of the indicated repeats. If he has some special love for this piece, he might at least have shorn it of it superfluities...