Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Randi Trio: Feelin' Like Blues (World Pacific). A first recording by a 24-year-old pianist who can clout the keyboard with macelike power or spin out feathery right-hand phrases with impressive speed. All the numbers-Summertime, Blues for Miti, Cheek to Cheek-not only swing but bounce, suggesting that Randi would be wise to reach occasionally for the soft pedal...
...family lives on Trifan's $9,000 a year in a modest, one-story house filled with educational devices from moon maps, Russian grammars and model dinosaur skeletons to two pianos, including one in a backyard practice cabin. Music is the Trifan passion. Pianist Marioara commutes three times weekly to Philadelphia's noted Curtis Institute, where she is the youngest student. The children practice for three hours in the morning, do school-work until 4 in the afternoon, then get one hour of play...
...Joel Lazar, the outgoing conductor of the Bach Society, is not a man to submit to Mr. T.S. Eliot's strictures on Last Things; the final concert of his tenure proved to be one of his very best. Ray Still, the oboeist, Joel Sachs, pianist, and Mark B. DeVoto, an undergraduate composer, contributed materially to the evening's excellence, but Mr. Lazar's triumph eclipsed even these gentlemen...
...evening concluded with a performance of a second Mozart concerto, this one the Concerto No. 19 in F, K. 459. Joel Sachs, the pianist, gave a more than adequate performance. His control of dynamics and phrasing are convincingly professional, and the quiet allegretto was played with delicacy and poise. The orchestra, it seems almost redundant to say, accompanied Mr. Sachs with care and with grace...
...Grandison Singers-three guileless-looking Negro girls in their 20s and a tenor-pianist-combine all three styles. They prefer to "take it apart and lay it on the table." When they put it together again it comes out something that might be called "distilled" gospel-a style that forgoes the screaming, stamping frenzies common to many a small church choir but that retains the slogging, sanctified beat of jazz and rhythm 'n' blues. As a close-harmony quartet, the Grandisons exude a curiously mingled air of sex and sanctity...