Word: musicians
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SOLO MONK (Columbia). Pianist Thelonious Monk offers greater range and variety-from the simple lyric line to complex, sophisticated jazz-than any other musician playing today. I Should Care is dismembered and recomposed almost chillingly; North of Sunset comes out as old-fashioned blues. He even makes Ruby, My Dear, a song he has played for more than 30 years, sound fresh...
Today Szeryng plays the concert circuit ten months of the year, travels on a diplomatic passport as Mexico's official cultural ambassador. Not as flashy as the school of violin virtuosos that U.S. audiences are accustomed to hearing, Szeryng enjoys his greatest popularity in Europe. "He is a musician's musician," explains Rubinstein patriotically. "In the U.S., the masses go to concerts for entertainment. But real music lovers want emotion-great moments-which Szeryng's playing gives them." Real music lovers will have a chance to judge for themselves this October, when Szeryng will play with...
After the intermission, thoough, the pace increased. A set of seven chorale preludes by Ernst Pepping--a relatively un-of the second half of the proknown contemporary musician--could have been the highlight of the second half of the program, with its delightful melodies and excellent idiomatic use of the organ. But the chorales were overshadowed immediately by the next number, Charles Ives' Variations on "America" (1891). If Mr. Biggs ever decides to make a recording with audience reaction, this should be his first selection. Not only does Ives impishly turn the tune into a music box ditty, an overembellished...
...GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author perceptively delineates the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...
...GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony from the sounds he has heard all his life and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author delineates the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...