Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dresden-born and the son of a viola player, Ronnefeld toured Germany in his teens as a concert pianist. Now chief conductor at the Bonn Stadttheater, he has written a handful of other compositions, but The Ant is both his first full-scale opera and his first work to attract wide attention. The boos it also attracts seem to Composer Ronnefeld merely "stupid." To people who read it correctly, he insists, his ant opera "introduces a higher reality...
Before he sits down to play a concert, Pianist John Browning follows a simple routine: he eats an early dinner (steak and baked potato), takes a short brisk walk to the concert hall, touches his fingers to his toes 25 times. The acrobatics, he explains, are to get the blood out of his stomach and into his hands, where it belongs. Over the years, the exercises have proved remarkably effective-at 28, Browning is one of the most gifted pianists of his generation. Last week, playing with the New York Philharmonic under Guest Conductor Georg Solti, he reminded audiences just...
...coveted Leventritt Award in 1955, a gold-medal winner in 1956 at Brussels' Queen Elisabeth Concours (in which he finished second to Russia's Vladimir Ashkenazy). Unlike Cliburn, who is often identified with Tchaikovsky and other romantics, and Gould, who polished his reputation on Bach. Pianist Browning has not been linked with any school, but favors Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert-German and Austrian composers that he feels he can "go into for 30 or 40 years and never touch bottom." And his style, as he demonstrated again last week when he played Mozart's rarely heard Concerto...
Arturo Toscanini's LP recording of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony has sold 600,000, but the only real rivals to Cliburn-Tchaikovsky are preserved on old-fashioned shellac. Among the million-selling 78s: Jalousie, performed by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Pianist Jose Iturbi in Chopin's Polonaise in A-flat and Debussy's Clair de Lune, Leopold Stokowski's recording of Tales from the Vienna Woods...
Married. Rosalyn Tureck. 47, intense, Chicago-born pianist who since the death of Wanda Landowska has reigned in Europe and the U.S. as the high priestess of Bach; and James Elliott Armstrong Hainds, 45, Chicago architect; both for the second time; in Manhattan...