Word: music
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Vocal REGINA RESNIK: FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH AND RUSSIAN SONGS (Epic). Great singers never rely on vocal beauty alone, for they know that they must combine drama and music in almost equal parts. Regina Resnik's vocal stagecraft is nearly unexcelled. This disk offers a variety of songs, each a sharp, clear miniature of a thought, a mood or a conflict. Bronx-born Resnik employs her practical intelligence, her personal flair and her firmly controlled mezzo throughout the recording. But she is most effective when her Russian ancestry boils to the surface in a gloomy Prokofiev work. The Pillars, which...
...week for an American tour, the usual thing would have been for the U.S. ambassador and his wife to have the conductor and the concertmaster to dinner. Not the Shrivers: they asked all 110 members, from Conductor Charles Munch to the tym-panists, and included a batch of French music critics in the bargain. Shriver gulped down his dinner and table-hopped. His characteristic opener: "Very glad to have you here. What else do you think we should be doing...
...best way to teach the swelling ranks of beginning piano students in the U.S. is through class instruction. Yet music schools and colleges have for years avoided class piano lessons as much as possible. If each student in the room has a piano, the result is cacophony; if there is only one piano, the pupils waste time waiting for their turn. Worse, they grow bored...
Cultural traditions die hard in history-conscious China. But they do die, as devotees of the highly stylized form of music drama called Peking opera are beginning to learn. The death is especially painful when the executioner is China's cultural queen, Chiang Ching, the wife of Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
Those are the advantages that led Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music to run a six-month pilot study of the program earlier this year with the Baldwin version of the electronic piano. Says Dr. Dean Boal, dean of the school: "We had a kind of 1984 apprehension about the system when it first arrived. But not any more. Though it gives a good approximation of real piano sound, though its touch is reasonably realistic, obviously it will never replace the conventional piano. You can succeed with it only if you do not ask it to do things...