Word: liszt
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...have been disappointed. He is casually spontaneous, whether throwing away an outrageous pun ("I will now play you excerpts. My mother made wonderful excerpts. Fried excerpts, boiled excerpts . . .") or sneering at Franz Liszt's Liebestraum as he skilfully plays it. He seems to ad lib every other line (but does not), appears to enjoy his own performance enormously (and does). One customer, who apparently has almost as good a time with Borge's performance as Borge, has been to see him 54 times. Another man laughed so hard he had a heart attack, was forbidden by his wife...
Benno Moiseiwitsch, 65, appears in Carnegie Hall to play a program of piano classics (Bach-Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann...
...Pietro Scarpini the kudos was no surprise. He was a child prodigy who rattled off Liszt's Rhapsody No. 12 in public when he was six, won his piano diploma from Rome's St. Cecilia Conservatory when he was twelve. Today he is professor of piano at the University of Florence. There was just one thing about his Manhattan reception that puzzled him: "I don't understand the review that said I played very well, but it was a bad work. I don't play bad works. If I did, I could not play them well...
...Tanglewood's most successful season in its 17 years; it was a special victory for Composer Berlioz (1803-69). The respectable musical world has long regarded him as the giant who never grew up, an uneven talent full of romantic excesses ("Berlioz," mocked his fellow composer Franz Liszt, "liked to fancy himself draining Death's chalice to the dregs in a gloomy cavern, surrounded by Italian bandits, and gasping out a final curse upon mankind"). But slowly the critical tide has been turning. This year, following the 150th anniversary of his birth, orchestras across the U.S. have played...
...Rienzi Overture, the first piece played at the first prom; Serenade to Music, a short choral work written by Vaughan Williams for Wood's golden jubilee as a conductor 16 years ago; Sargent's own Impression of a Windy Day, which had its prom premiere in 1921; Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, played by Pianist Mark Hambourg, 75, who played his first prom in 1896; Hary Janos Suite, by Hungary's Zoltan Kodaly, which, like works by many other modern composers (e.g., Bartok and Stravinsky), was first introduced to a curious London public at the prom concerts...