Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What was planned to be a quiet, out-of-the-way wedding for Romano Mussolini, 34, jazz pianist son of II Duce, and Maria Scicolone, 23, curvy kid sister of Sophia Loren, turned into a tragicomic Roman holiday. With tumultuous thousands mobbing the tiny church at Predappio (where his father is buried), the bridegroom fainted dead away, but was revived by injection of a stimulant in time to weather the ceremony. The day came to an ill-starred conclusion when the chauffeur-driven Rolls of sister Sophia was involved in a collision that killed a local schoolteacher...
...Dieskau in Duets (Gerald Moore, piano; Angel). A beautiful introduction to a part of the vocal repertory now only rarely heard in the concert hall. Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky are among the composers visited, and Soprano de los Angeles and Baritone Fischer-Dieskau do well by them. Pianist Moore is pictured on the album cover with his two singers, a recognition he deserves but one that he and his fellow accompanists rarely receive...
Another U.S. pianist who got his first big boost in Russia-a prizewinner at the 1958 competition won by Van Cliburn, followed by two generously acclaimed tours in 1959 and 1961. In his second album (recorded in Moscow), Los Angeles-born Pianist Pollack dips into Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, shows a ringing tone, a fleet touch, and a natural temper for the romantics. At 27, one of the most gifted-and least appreciated-talents around...
Last evening's program by a fine violist, Paul Doktor, and a muddy pianist, Yaltah Menuhin (fille), offered Brahma, Debussy, and Kabalevsky, all for the price of Hindemith. Hindemith's Sonata No. 1 for viola (1920) is what is known in scholarly circles as a review of the literature. It starts with annotated Schubert and proceeds to Brahms, citing from impressionistic Debussy as needed. An extensive quote of the born motive in Brahms' Fourth Symphony provides the theme for a set of variations, wherein Hindemith invokes the style of Kabalevsky's 24 Easy Pieces for Children; and paraphrases...
...with uninspired music. Beethoven's Thirty-two Variations in C Minor, Opus 11, provided Miss Menuhin's solo of the evening; apparently both he and she worked the piece out as a homework assignment. It is, of course, possible that Beethoven intended this as a display of technique, a pianist's tour de force, but in Miss Menuhin's wanderings, the force got lost in the tour. The melody, what there was of it, never managed to crawl out of the piano, since the pedal had a strangle hold on it for the whole-piece. The passage clearly intended...