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...Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to literature. DIED. MICHELINE OSTERMEYER, 78, who won discus and shot put gold medals for France in the 1948 Olympic Games; in Rouen. Ostermeyer retired from sports in 1950 to tour Europe as a pianist and was renowned for her renditions of Rachmaninoff's work...
...difficult to imagine that the Evgeny Kissin who performed to a packed audience at Symphony Hall the other night was the same pianist who wowed audiences 17 years ago at the age of 12 with his performances of the Chopin concerti. Child prodigies burn out, fail to live up to the impossible standards set for them and become unmarketable. Kissin, however, has emerged as an artist of incredible maturity who also happens to possess a technique of such polish and precision it makes one want to either practice 10 times harder or give up the piano entirely. Presented as part...
Kissin’s performance of Robert Schumann’s Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor was much more convincing. The work was written during the white-heat inspiration of Schumann’s tumultuous courtship of the brilliant pianist, Clara Wieck, whom he would later marry. While the work does not quite reach the desperation and pathos of other Clara-obsessed compositions (such as the Fantasy in C Major), it shares many of the features of other Schumann compositions from the same time period, namely capriciousness and extremity of emotions (from the heroic Eusebius to the introspective...
Other recipients this year included a concert pianist, a papyrologist, and several other artists and scientists...
...artistic rebuilding, like the one taking place on October 20th at Madison Square Garden, where former Beatle Paul McCartney will headline "The Concert for New York City," an all-star musical celebration of the city (Elton John, Mick Jagger, Marc Anthony and David Bowie are also scheduled to perform). Pianist Thelonious Monk once said "Jazz is New York. You can feel it in the air." But there are also many other kinds of music gusting through the streets of New York beyond jazz and rock; this weekend?s megaconcert is something that?s part of a much longer tradition...