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Rosen will also teach a course on the music of the 1820s next fall and a graduate tutorial next spring, Luise Vosgerchian, Naumburg Professor of Music and chairman of the Music Department, said yesterday...
...broad-ranging musician who has even played on rock records, Rosen won the Naumburg cello competition in New York last year. His new triumph was no surprise to his father, who accompanied his son to Moscow and predicted the outcome from the start...
...began taking lessons at nine from his older brother, now a violinist with the Houston Symphony, and used a violin made by his father, a carpenter. He debuted with the Hartford Symphony at 14, and won a Naumburg prize two years before Rosen, in 1975. Although Oliveira feels that competitions are too powerful a force in establishing musicians' reputations, he was still happy: "Such a prize gives a performer a tremendous boost. It opens up more engagements with finer orchestras, better recitals throughout the world...
...memorial service for the later Walter Piston, Naumburg Professor of Music Emeritus, will be held at 2 p.m. today in Sanders Theater. The service will include performances of several pieces composed by Piston...
...booked for theater, opera and concert appearances through 1978. The youngest child of a middle-class family in Chester, Pa., the incomparable Clamma learned to play the cello, clarinet, piano, saxophone and guitar guided by her father, an oil-refinery worker and part-time jazz musician. Before winning a Naumburg Foundation Award and a contract with the New York City Opera Company a year ago, Clamma, a Juilliard graduate, taught music and the poetry of Goethe and Schiller to prisoners on New York's Riker's Island. She hopes to play such operatic rolls as Margherita in Mefistofele...