Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singers Roberta Peters and Blanche The-bom and Conductor Leopold Stokowski, the Philadelphia Orchestra for Soviet Pianist Emil Gilels and Violinist Leonid Kogan (who are in the U.S. now), plus the Bolshoi Theater Ballet and other stellar attractions...
...good cultural investment, entered the Moscow Conservatory to study under Abram Yampolsky. In 1951 he burst spectacularly on the international musical scene by winning Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours against the best young talent of the West. Now married to Elizabeth Gilels, younger sister of famed Pianist Emil Gilels and a fine violinist in her own right, Kogan is something of a musical hero in Russia. To the impressed men of the Boston string section last week, he seemed to lack some of the interpretive maturity of 49-year-old Violinist Oistrakh (with whom he studied briefly...
Shostakovich wrote his concerto for his 19-year-old son Maxim, who is a pianist but reportedly not an outstanding one. Pop's 15-minute exercise jittered and jumped in its two fast movements, meandered sweetly and slushily in its slow movement. The work was so far from the bite and sparkle of Shostakovich's first piano concerto (1933) that no one could decide whether the five-finger exercises with which it ended were an attempt at wit or merely a concession to Maxim's halting progress. But Bernstein piled through the piece just...
Toshiko: Her Trio Her Quartet (Storyville). Japanese Jazz Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi takes off on some fiery lyrical flights in this selection of eight compositions, two of them her own (Salute to Shorty, Pea, Bee and Lee). She is at her best in a couple of high, animated conversations with Alto Saxophonist Boots Mussulli (/'// Remember April, Kelo...
...TROUT" QUINTET (Schubert): Paul Badura-Skoda, pianist, and Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet...