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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Albeniz: Iberia (complete); Navarra. (Michel Block pianist, Connoisseur Society; 2 LPs.) Enrique Fernandez Arbos' glittering orchestrations helped make El Puerto, Triana and the ten other pieces in Iberia popular throughout the world. But, as Alicia de Larrocha has proved over the years in three recordings of the suite, the piano originals are as atmospherically Spanish as one could wish and, in the end, preferable. Here is a recording by the French American Michel Block that not only challenges De Larrocha's supremacy, but topples it. Block's playing has an earthy swagger and poetic sweep that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classic and Choice | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...enthusiasts of everything Russian from Tolstoy to dasha in Georgia, the Kirkland House Music Society is presenting Russian Concertos in Sanders Theatre. Gerald Moshell will conduct the Kirklandgrad Philharmonic in a programme consisting of works by Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto No. 2) featuring Lydia Artymiw as solo pianist and Stravinsky (Violin Concerto) with violinist Lynn Chang, Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise" and Stravinsky's ""Dylan Thomas in Memoriam" will also be presented here at Kirkland House JCR at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $1 at the door...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: CLASSICAL | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

...that breathes ecstatically about "Southern Nights" just now when summer looks when it might be making a final long-awaited appearance but if you are a properly brought up culture-vulture you will probably go for Hector Berlioz's "Nuits d'Ete." Janet Bedell, mezzosoprano, and Robert Cohen, pianist, will present this recital in Holmes Hall Living Room...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: CLASSICAL | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

Died. Alexander Semmler, 76, composer, pianist and conductor for the Columbia Broadcasting System; of a heart attack; in Kingston, N.Y. Semmler composed romantic music for the concert hall, as well as for hundreds of radio and television shows. As a pianist, he was best known for his radio broadcasts of Beethoven and Chopin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 9, 1977 | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Robart Moran's shadow puppet theater presents his "Through Cloud and Eclipse...," a "contemporary fairy tale." Puppeteer Moran, projectionist Donald Case, and pianist Joseph Kubera. Also Erik Satie's "Sports and Divertissements," for speaker and piano. Paine Hall, Music Building, 8 pm. Free...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: CLASSICAL | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

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