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Pianist Ruth Pergament performs selections by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt and Schumann. Winthrop Junior Common Room...
Much more literal than Black's piece is Morgenroth's "Five Aces," with music by Liszt. Five dancers from The Moving Company began by spoofing sport and ballet antics. Morgenroth saves these familiar themes from becoming cliches by developing the parodied gestures into more suggestive and complex movement sequences, fusing the non-literal and literal into an expression beyond satire...
Columbia, in conjunction with Melodya, has come out with three Liszt recordings, which include the twelve Transcendental Etudes and the B-minor sonata. Only a select few--like Berman-- have the technique to soar thrugh these finger-twisters without undertaking a mortal struggle of man against piano. Berman's sheer power is almost frightening, but he can play with the most exquisite declicacy when necessary...
Freleng's Rhapsody Rabbit features Bugs as a concert pianist laying waste one of Liszt's Hungarian rhapsodies. Hair-Raising Hare, directed by Jones, pits Bugs against both a Peter Lorre prototype and the sneaker monster, showing the rabbit at his most unflappable. As he struggles to hold a wooden castle door closed against his pursuer, he calls out: "Is there a doctor in the house?" A silhouette appears on the screen, as if from the audience, and says: "Yes, I'm a doctor." Bugs, suddenly taking an insouciant munch on a carrot and ignoring the peril...
Through its affiliation with Russia's Melodiya label, Columbia has just issued Berman's version of Liszt's twelve Transcendental Etudes, the twelve-year-old double-LP set that firmly established his reputation among record collectors. This is music that, for pure pianistic difficulty, begins where the Chopin Etudes leave off; rarely has it sounded more lyrical...