Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli pianist Ophra Yerushalami will give a benefit recital 8:30 p.m. Saturday night in Sanders Theatre, in support of a campaign to end illiteracy in Ethiopia...
...Pianist-Conductor Daniel Barenboim, who is taking the London Symphony to the U.S., immediately arranged to have Oliver conduct his piece at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall this week. Andre Previn was shown the score and decided to perform it next season with the Houston Symphony. "I would have taken it to be the work of an adult," said Previn, 39. "The fact that it was written by a boy of 14 is amazing and frightening...
...ends up alienated and alone. Piano and orchestra converse in different chords like different dialects and at different tempos; swatches of sound appear in what seem desultory then frantic patterns; and at times the script calls for practically the whole Boston Symphony to damp down the valiant lone pianist, Jacob Lateiner-which seems particularly unfair since he (with a grant from the Ford Foundation) commissioned the work in the first place...
BUSONI: CONCERTO FOR PIANO, ORCHESTRA AND MALE CHORUS (Angel; 2 LPs). A first recording of a huge, seldom heard work that dates in time to 1904 and in style to a still earlier romantic era. Ferruccio Busoni was a pianist in the tradition of Liszt. He was a teacher who boasted disciples rather than pupils (among them, Kurt Weill) and he was also a composer of grandiose notions and mixed talents, which are illuminated by English Pianist John Ogdon and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in this 70-minute work The introductory movement seems to be all stately facade, but once...
ERROLL GARNER: THAT'S MY KICK (MGM). Pianist Garner's secret ingredient is gusto. It has long since earned him recognition from both pop and jazz fans, and on this record he demonstrates why. In addition to guitar, bongos, bass and drums, he is accompanied by a distinctively Garner rhythm device that the album cover aptly describes as the "swinging-grunt"-emphatic guttural sounds that express his exuberance at playing uptempo. The effect is to put fresh magic into his renditions of // Ain't Necessarily So, Autumn Leaves and More...