Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wonderful Town (wrote Ghent's Het Volk: "An absolute revelation!"), and the New York City Opera's Susannah by Carlisle Floyd. Crowds also jammed the Grand Auditorium to hear Violinist Isaac Stern play three times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, turned out again when the Philadelphians and Pianist Van Cliburn played the piece that catapulted him to fame-Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto...
...England Telephone & Telegraph Co. who worked himself up toward a middle-class living-and made John take piano lessons. John Fox, by his own admission less interested in knowledge per se than in prestige per se, majored in English literature at Harvard, paid his way through as a ragtime pianist at the Copley Plaza (now the oft-mentioned Sheraton Plaza) and Brae Burn Country Club, graduated in 1929 and landed a job with a Boston broker at $20 a week just before the great crash. After the crash, came the 1933 Federal Securities Act, which was "written by lawyers...
Three Conductors. The complexities of electronic composition are such that Stockhausen, although he works twelve hours a day, has completed only seven electronic compositions. He has also experimented with instrumental music, including his Piano Piece No. 11, which permits the pianist to play fragments in whatever order his eye falls on them but specifies that when he has played one fragment three times, the piece must end. Another Stockhausen experiment: Groups, a 20-minute work which calls for three orchestras playing simultaneously under three separate conductors. His work in progress: a piece for electronic and conventional instruments, which will allow...
Serge Prokofiev (the composer at the piano, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Piero Coppola; Angel). This new entry in Angel's "Great Recordings of the Century" series presents Prokofiev's own performance of his Third Concerto as he recorded it in London in 1932. Pianist Prokofiev sails through the familiar, exhilarating, gently ironic music with a rock-sure rhythmic stride, a springy touch and a tone that can melt or soar into green lyrical fancies...
...ready to return to Poland, his concerts became immediate sellouts; 1,200 people turned up merely to hear him rehearse. Before he played a note at his final concert, the audience stood as he walked on the stage (the only other musician in modern memory similarly honored in Warsaw: Pianist Ignace Paderewski, who later became Prime Minister...