Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four years Leontyne labored at Juilliard. appearing in any student production she could get into, singing for anybody who cared to listen in the lobby of the International House where she lived, or at the customary candlelit Sunday night suppers. Says a pianist friend of the Juilliard days: "It never entered my mind that Leontyne would not make it." But Leontyne herself was far less sure. She fell in love with a Haitian ("He was no musician." says Leontyne now, "but he sure was an artist"), and when the episode ended abruptly, she began threatening suicide. One night...
...therefore, not the pastor but his teen-age son (Christian de Bresson) who principally suffers and must fundamentally resolve the crisis of the Christian conscience in a Communist society. The boy is a gifted pianist who longs to enter a conservatory, but to gain admission he must belie his religious beliefs when he replies to the crucial seventh question in a government questionnaire. The state. personified in a likable and persuasive young teacher, urges him to leave his father's "outworn ideas," join the new society: "We need music as well as bread and coal and houses." Against this...
Died. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 78, lanky, white-shocked Australian-born pianist and folklorist whose fame as a serious artist and the composer of Brigg Fair, Molly on the Shore and Country Gardens was equaled by his fame as a serious eccentric who often hiked to concerts carrying a knapsack, was married in the Hollywood Bowl before a delighted audience of 22,000, abhorred meat, tobacco, coffee, tea and alcohol but adored cheese, raw vegetables and a half-and-half mixture of cold milk and hot water; of cancer; in White Plains...
Music from Camelot (Andre Previn; Columbia). Backed by bass and drums, Pianist-Composer-Arranger Previn works his own Merlinesque magic on the world of Lerner and Loewe. As always happens when Previn sets his hand to it, the score emerges sounding as if it were written from the beginning to the measure of Previn's nervously elegant style. For those who prefer their scores straight, the Camelot Original Cast Album (Columbia) presents Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and a standard pit orchestra in the show's highly engaging tunes; one in particular, Follow Me, is heard here far more...
Marriage Revealed. Hazel Scott, 40, Negro jazz pianist; and Ezio Bedin, 25, Swiss-born comedian; she for the second time, he for the first; in New York City on Jan. 19, eight weeks after she divorced Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell and six weeks after Powell married his pert Puerto Rican secretary...