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CYRUS CHESTNUT GENUINE CHESTNUT What makes Chestnut the best jazz pianist of his generation is a willingness to abandon notes and to play space. He rescues Roberta Flack's The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Bread's truly horrible AM-radio hit If from years of accumulated treacle by tinkling out the barest hint of melody, confidently letting each note float around until it resolves itself in your head. He's equally adept at spelling his minimalism with funk on the original Ellen's Song, and closes with a solo version of Lord, I Give Myself...
...from the action, not immersed in it.On the other hand, the musical performances are perfection itself. This maturity and style in performance are certainly due to the LHO’s tradition of incorporating graduate students and professionals into the cast and crew. Every single performer, from conductor and pianist Harry Huff and the orchestra, to Macheath’s wife Polly Peachum (Chelsey J. Forbess ’07) and her “Barbara’s Song,” to Mrs. Peachum and her “Song of Sexual Dependency...
...early morning pianist drew complaints from resident of Winthrop House, entryway H, last Monday, sending officers to the scene to investigate. Officers arrived and found no evidence of piano-playing...
...magazine left behind by a passenger and had his first look at the indelible images of Depression-era America made by Dorothea Lange and other photographers for the Farm Security Administration, the FSA. By that time he had already been a semi-pro basketball player and a pianist in a brothel, so he was not a man averse to trying his hand at just about anything. Within a few years he had bought his first camera and was embarked on a new career making portraits of black women and fashion shots for a St. Louis department store...
...soloing in the “Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola, & orchestra,” communicated beautifully, handing melodies off to one another with facility and grace. Soprano Amanda Forsythe was terrific singing the aria “Misera, dove son!”. But pianist and composer Aaron L. Berkowitz, a second year student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was the clear standout. His performance of the Adagio movement from Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 23” was novel in all the best ways. Foregoing the sumptuous melodic slush favored...