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Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and other 19th-century romantic composers expanded the use of register, texture and tone quality to define their music, rather than depending on notes and rhythms, Charles Rosen, professor of music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and holder of the 1980-81 Norton Chair in poetry, told an audience of 500 at Paine Hall yesterday...
America's first world-class musician, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, built a precocious career on three isms: romanticism, pianism and giganticism. He had the dazzling keyboard technique of his European contemporaries, Liszt and Chopin, and a languid, aristocratic sexuality as well. Women vied for the white gloves he tossed aside before sitting down to play-and often for other favors afterward. His recitals, heavily laced with showpieces of his own composing, catered unabashedly to the florid, sentimental taste of the day. On occasion he disdained using one piano where ten or 14 would do. During the years before his death...
Piano Recital--Joyce Yu-Cheng Chung; work of Faure, Liszt, Chopin; Currier House...
...other was Pianist Liu Shikun, who performed the Liszt Concerto No. 1 in E-flat. The two Lius were startlingly different in temperament. The pipa player is a genial fellow who entertained the Boston members backstage with Home on the Range ("I learned it for Kissinger's sixth visit"). The pianist, who spent most of the Gang of Four reign in jail, is a man of seething intensity. He came onstage with shaking hands, and shot through the Liszt with authority but blinding speed. At rehearsal, Ozawa had tried without success to slow Liu down. Finally, he said...
Busoni, Schubert, Liszt, Ginastera--Phillip Silver, Lowell House...