Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the direction of Boris Goldovsky, famed lecturer and concert planist whose knowledge of operate technique is well known, to his Saturday afternoon radio audiences. Tanglewood is offering a unique chance for young conductors and directors to train. "If a pianist needs a piano to practice, how can one expect an opera director to learn without actors!" explains the cherubic Goldovsky. Equipped as he is with a large group of competent student singers, he is able to give his embryo conductors and directors their necessary workouts...
Berkshire Festival (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducts the Boston Symphony in Vivaldi's D Minor Concerto, Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor. Soloist: Pianist Ella Goldstein...
Last week, the Three Flames-Pianist Roy Testamark, Guitarist George ("Tiger") Haynes and Bull Fiddler Averill ("Bill") Pollard-who seem to create their special brand of jived-up patter and song by spontaneous combustion, were cooking on all burners in a Manhattan basement nightclub, the Village Vanguard. Backed by some solid piano and rhythm, the Flames ("How hot can you get?") are now setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during...
...World War I school for Army bandmasters. Among those who passed through its famed English gardens and composition classes were Aaron Copland, Walter Piston and Dick Rodgers (of Rodgers & Hart). In the early '20s, Composer Francis Casadesus had run the music school. Present director: his famed nephew, Pianist Robert Casadesus, whose wife, Pianist Gaby, is also on the faculty...
Among the few composers spared Mossman's working-over were Bach, Beethoven and Schumann. Last week Schumann took the count. Mossman published three Tin Pan Alley adaptations of Schumann, timed to soften up the U.S. for a movie on Schumann's life, Song of Love, in which Pianist Artur Rubinstein plays Schumann's music straight (TIME, May 26). Schumann's Träumerei will be crooned and swung as Fantasy; the song Widinung will be known as Dedication. From the great A Minor Piano Concerto, Mossman has wrung a vapid tune called A Love Story...