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...thought of quitting a lot," he continues, "but it's like being a concert pianist. Even if someone says you can't play, you do it anyway...
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel; Three Intermezzi, Op. 117; Three Intermezzi, Op. 119; Rhapsody, Op. 119 No. 4 (Pianist Van Cliburn, RCA). The Handel Variations are often thought of as a piece that only a pianist, or piano buff, could love. In one of his most appealing albums in years, Van Cliburn puts the lie to that. Leaping from one craggy Brahmsian peak to another as effortlessly as though playing Debussy's Clair de lune, Cliburn gives the work a warm romantic allure yet never loses hold of its classic-baroque underpinnings. What ingenuity...
Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81 (the Juilliard Quartet, Rudolf Firkusny pianist, Columbia; the same work played by the Cleveland Quartet, Emanuel Ax pianist, RCA). This concert perennial is easily recognized by its opening second movement theme, a sound- alike for the late 1940s popular song Nature Boy. The quintet is often said to reflect the composer's sunny, lyric disposition, and even the swift changes in tempo and sudden clouds of melancholy cannot dampen the work's high spirits. Both the Juilliard with Firkusny and the Cleveland with Ax are faithful to the Dvorak spirit...
...upper East Side, tables were moved outdoors for a block party. The guests included Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Andy Warhol and Designer Calvin Klein. At One Fifth, a Greenwich Village restaurant decorated with fittings from the cruise ship R.M.S. Caronia, a patron quipped: "We've hit an iceberg." Pianist Nat Jones scrounged a candle to light his keyboard and played It Ain't Necessarily So. Unfortunately...
...Presented by Jelly Roll Morton," choreographed by Anna Sokolow, Jim--ardent, frightened, cool--partners Lorry-never anything but wacky--in a series of queerly-constructed waltzes, foxtrots, and tangos. As narrator Ed Di Lello reads Morton's account of how a dance tune became transformed in his "Tiger Rag," pianist Patricia deVore pounds out its variations in two and three time...