Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old heart of the University of Paris and the hub of the previous week's violence, bearded youths and miniskirted coeds sat in the courtyard singing occasional ribald songs against the Gaullist government. Now and then a jazz band struck up a tune or a pianist played an instrument dragged from an auditorium. With no police around, students even donned helmets and directed traffic on the Left Bank...
...near-total recall, ability to read scores at sight, digital dexterity, and a catholic if necessarily incomplete cerebral storehouse of music from the 17th century to the present. At Harvard he has been chiefly occupied as classical music guru at WHRB, in addition to somewhat less frequent exposure as pianist and composer...
...entiled "Works of W. A. Mozart," included the orchestral March in D, K. 335/1 (delightful in its naivete and ludicrous use of col legno), the Sonata for Violin and Piano in B flat, K. 454, and the magnificent Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503. Levin served as pianist and was joined at appropriate moments by violinist Rose Mary Harbison and an excellent pick-up orchestra conducted by John Harbison. By and large the performances were clean, tasteful and controlled, with occasional brilliance and finesse that engendered real moments of excitement...
Complaint, however, is bootless and beside the point. To say that the concert was enjoyable would be an understatement--it was stupendous. After all, with Levin's gifts as a pianist and composer and with Mozart as collaborator, how could anyone miss...
PHILIPPE ENTREMONT: STRAVINSKY PIANO CONCERTOS (Columbia). Stravinsky's music is more widely respected than beloved; his clean and vigorous sound prods the intellect rather than the emotions. Still it is a pleasure to hear these two intricately constructed concertos-one with orchestra, the other with wind instruments. Pianist Entremont's performance manifests his precise understanding of how they were meant to sound...