Word: pianistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth last week, what could be more fitting than for Pianist and Gottschalk Fancier Eugene List to take over Carnegie Hall for a "monster concert" in the master's manner? 40 PIANISTS! 400 FINGERS! 880 PIANO KEYS! said the posters. Actually, there were 41 pianists, all current or former students of List's in his more staid guise as a teacher (first at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, now at New York University). Following a sort of platoon system, the performers came and went...
What finer homage to Pianist Arthur Rubinstein on reaching 92? For 17 hours Radio France broadcast Rubinstein's greatest performances, followed by a live concert at Paris' Theatre des Champs Élysées programmed by the maestro himself. Age and approaching blindness apart, Rubinstein was well up to the celebration. "Composing a concert is like composing a menu," he announced, explaining his choices of Debussy, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Schubert. "I believe in musical digestion. If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with...
...other was Pianist Liu Shikun, who performed the Liszt Concerto No. 1 in E-flat. The two Lius were startlingly different in temperament. The pipa player is a genial fellow who entertained the Boston members backstage with Home on the Range ("I learned it for Kissinger's sixth visit"). The pianist, who spent most of the Gang of Four reign in jail, is a man of seething intensity. He came onstage with shaking hands, and shot through the Liszt with authority but blinding speed. At rehearsal, Ozawa had tried without success to slow Liu down. Finally, he said...
Nobody complained when Opera Diva Helen Traubel sang at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. But James Brown, the king of soul, at the shrine of country music? Well, that is noncountry royalty of a different kind, on account of all the king's funky songs. Insisted Pianist Del Wood, one of a pride of Opry regulars protesting
DIED. Guiomar Novaës, eightyish, eminent Brazilian pianist; of a heart attack; in Sao Paulo. Born the 17th of 19 children, Novaës began playing the piano at age four, and ten years later left her native country to study in Paris on a Brazilian government grant. Upon her American debut in 1915, she was hailed as "the Paderewska of the Pampas," and for the next five decades sustained that accolade through her recordings and international concerts. An intuitive musician and a supreme keyboard colorist, the tiny (5 ft.) virtuoso was renowned for her warm, effortless performances...