Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dimitri Mitropoulos, 64, virtuoso conductor and pianist who followed a musical calling with mystical fervor; of a heart attack; in La Scala Opera House, Milan. Athens-born of ecclesiastical lineage, Greek Orthodox Mitropoulos gave himself to music with the dedication of a monk (which he once intended to be), lived frugally, gave away his money to students as his hero St. Francis of Assisi did, became an apostle of modern composers. On the podium he danced, shook his fringed pate, conducting without a score from an awesome memory. Off the podium he read philosophy, the Greek dramatists...
Sviatoslov Richter is beset by a problem that many a pianist would welcome: his audiences refuse to let him go home. Having astounded Carnegie Hall with an all-Beethoven program in making his Manhattan debut (TIME, Oct. 31), Russia's great pianist returned last week to Carnegie to practice his extraordinary technique on works of other composers. The best way to dismiss his audiences, he discovered, was by quietly closing the keyboard of his concert grand...
Richter's Prokofiev was so strikingly different from that of other pianists that it seemed at first like the revelation of a new musical personality. A longtime friend of the Soviet composer, Richter managed to illuminate the lyric qualities usually obscured by the percussive Prokofiev style. Even in the most frenzied and violent passages-notably during Sonata No. 6, when he flailed the keyboard with a clenched fist-Richter drew forth a tone that was warm instead of strident, as full of shadings as a guttering candle flame. Later in the week Richter offered programs including Haydn, Schumann, Debussy...
...tall, thin man with closely cropped hair, Bentley had originally intended to be a concert pianist. The prospect of the professional musician's grim life changed his mind at the last minute, and he went from Oxford to Yale, where he received a doctorate in Comparative Literature. Among his many books and anthologies, The Playwright as Thinker (1946) and In Search of a Theater (1947), are the most well known. He has attracted a wide audience of grateful readers with his series of anthologies, From the Modern Repertoire, The Modern Theater, and The Classic Theater. Bentley as an anthologizer tends...
Although she is an accomplished pianist. Germaine has no profound love for music -or for anything else-and it is merely a whim that brings her to a clattering New Zealand town to study with a master who is himself an exile there. She meets him: "'Give me some more of that wine Léon.' I investigate the state of my hair. 'I feel better now.' I watch the green-clad form humbling and anxiously pouring my wine not spilling any this time taking the greatest care. Can't you men be pathetic? Especially...