Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Goetz; Columbia) records two noteworthy advances over Hollywood's customary great-musician gassers. The first must have caused mutterings in Beverly Hills: the film, although it concerns Franz Liszt, is not called The Franz Liszt Story. The second is that Dirk Bogarde, who plays the 19th century pianist-composer, has learned to waggle his fingers in convincing imitation of a virtuoso in full cadenza. The innovation is not negligible; it eliminates that hoary sham in which the cameraman shoots from behind the piano while the actor at the keyboard moves his arms up and down...
This Here Is Bobby Timmons (Riverside). The pianist-composer whose This Here has made him something of a modern jazz folk hero pushes resolutely through a number of songs in a densely thicketed style out of which notes come spraying like water off a centrifuge. The most successful selections are the standards-The Party's Over, Ellington's Prelude to a Kiss-and the least successful, unfortunately, Timmons...
Divorced. Claude Rains, 70, veteran British-born actor; by Agi Jambor, 51, his fifth wife, Hungarian-born concert pianist; after nine months of marriage; in West Chester...
...England's Glyndebourne Festival last week, Soprano Joan Sutherland, playing the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, rushed disheveled from the wings to shriek lamentations over the fallen body of her father. Restlessly roaming the house, her husband. Pianist Richard Bonynge. sweated out every note. He had his own lament: "We have as bad reputations as ballet dancers' mothers.'' He meant himself and all the other incarnations of that fabled musical folk figure, the opera diva's husband...
Future performances include organist Andrea Marchal, July 27, and folksingers Oscar Brand and Joan Baez, Aug. 4. In last week's program, violinist Ruth Posselt and pianist Luise Vosgerchian presented a program of four sonatas...