Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During one five-week period last winter, the Philadelphia Orchestra offered the world premieres of challenging concertos by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Richard Wernick. In New York City in February, Elmar Oliveira gave the first performance of a lyrical new work by Hugh Aitken, while in Montreal, Stern contributed the North American premiere of French Composer Henri Dutilleux's impressionistic concerto. The same month Virtuoso Shlomo Mintz played Marc Neikrug's neoromantic concerto for the second time, having presented its world premiere in 1984. And this week Sergiu Luca will give the American premiere of William Bolcom's frisky new concerto...
...study the whole score and put together the sound in your head totally," explains the soloist. "Then you take the work apart measure by measure. You must learn the work from the inside; you work slowly until it becomes yours." Stern's dashing reading with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal under Charles Dutoit convincingly stamped the piece...
When French-speaking Yves Lavigueur, 18, answered the door at his family's house in Montreal one night last week, he found a poorly dressed caller babbling in English and unable to say anything in French. He promptly sent the man packing. But the next night the visitor knocked again, and this time he had a French-speaking person in tow. With his friend's help, William Murphy, 28, explained to Yves's father Jean-Guy, 51, that he had found a wallet belonging to the elder Lavigueur. The unemployed Murphy had anonymously returned the wallet to Jean...
...Niekro threw the last N.L. no-hitter on Sept. 26, 1983 against Montreal...
This spring the noise level has been up. Even Gooden has heard the unfamiliar sound of cowhide meeting ash. But then, hitters forget every winter and have to be reminded every summer who the pitchers are. A young fellow named Floyd Youmans had a bright spring for Montreal and has pitched his way into the starting rotation. Maybe the best pitcher in baseball should dig up a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. There could be Strikeout games this summer...