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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...compulsory short program: a once-over-lightly reprise of her hits from stage (Fiddler on the Roof, Mame) and TV (Maude, The Golden Girls); a funny anecdote about each of the famous people she's worked with (Lotte Lenya, Tallulah Bankhead); and stilted "extemporaneous" banter with her pianist, Billy Goldenberg. The audience leaves to the accompaniment of the theme song from Maude but learns virtually nothing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bea Arthur On Broadway | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

Violinist Jennifer Myung ’02, cellist Laura Bacon ’02 and pianist Jason Leekeenan ’02 inaugurated Harvard Radio WHRB’s new “Live From Cabot House,” a bi-weekly series of live performances Sunday afternoons designed to give greater exposure to undergraduate classical and jazz performers on campus and throughout the Greater Boston area...

Author: By James Crawford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WHRB Debuts Undergraduate Jazz Series in Cabot House | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

After intermission, pianist Konstantin Lifschitz performed Brahms’ First Piano Concerto. This was 25-year-old Lifschitz’s overdue Boston debut but the result was somewhat disappointing, especially after such an explosive first half. When Lifschitz released his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the age of 16, he drew comparisons with the great Glenn Gould. One could also make an association with Gould based on his Brahms performance: both pianists took the work at almost unbearably slow tempi. Unlike Leonard Bernstein, who performed the work with Gould in 1962, James Bolle...

Author: By Anthony Cheung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Carter’s ‘Symphonia’ Triumphs | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...Blue Skies" (1926), by Oscar Peterson (1952), on "How Deep Is the Ocean: The Irving Berlin Songbook." The pianist gambols over Berlin's most carefree number. Knowingly giddy, the interpretation is true to the tune, true to jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Berlin Bio-pic | 12/30/2001 | See Source »

...Lazy" (1924), Joan Morris and William Bolcom, on "Blue Skies: Songs by Irving Berlin" (recorded 1985, released 1990). Mezzo-soprano Morris and pianist Bolcom, those most joyful archivists of antique pop, turn this ode to indolence into a statement on the ecstasy of doin' nothin'. A classical classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Berlin Bio-pic | 12/30/2001 | See Source »

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