Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Change of Pace. Casals mesmerizing performance and an eerily effective rendition of Beethoven's Trio in D Major (the "Ghost" Trio) by Violinist Stern, Pianist Eugene Istomin and Cellist Leonard Rose were the high points of Israel's month-long festival. But there were other triumphs. Staged at seven sites from Haifa to the Revivim kibbutz, the festival drew 56,000 people to 23 concerts. In Tel Aviv, 500 music lovers who could not squeeze into the already-packed 3,000-seat Mann Auditorium were chased by police from a parapet outside the second floor. In Jerusalem...
Victor Borge Special (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). A special program hails the 20th anniversary of the Danish funnyman's discovery of America. Hermione Gingold (with her cello) and Concert Pianist Leonid Hambro are guests...
...United Artists). A man guffaws, the audience cackles, and Pianist Weston and group are off on High Fly. Manhattan's Five Spot Cafe, where this recording was made, apparently attracts some of the most indefatigable gabblers on the club circuit, but what cuts across the vocal static is well worth listening to, especially Billy Strayhorn's Star Crossed Lovers (the only tune not by Weston), a plaintive exercise for sax and piano...
...Explosive Piano of Herman Foster (Epic). Pianist Foster chops out brutish chords with a macelike hand in Yesterdays, contributes a sweet and swinging solo to Like Someone in Love, and generally comports himself like a man with something...
...that Fred, a Las Vegas jazz pianist, drew his first weekly paycheck, he immediately lost it in a poker game. "It seems as if I've been trying to get that week's pay back ever since," says Fred now, a quarter of a century later. As he floated from jazz joint to jazz joint around the U.S., Fred became a regular at the race tracks, crap tables and poker games. But he never won the week's pay back, succeeded only in blowing $75,000 more. He became hooked on alcohol and drugs, stole money from...