Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robinson and Director Vincente Minnelli, fencing with Film Composer Bronislau Kaper ("Not much control," says Kaper, "but great imagination and aggressiveness"), digging jazz at Drummer Shelly Manne's club, singing all the parts in impromptu living-room opera performances with such musical friends as Ivry Gitlis and Pianist Daniel...
More serious, Mr. Moss disputes the judgment of the judges. I felt they were extremely well qualified: Dr. Yannatos and Mr. Corley are experienced conductors, and pianist Luis Vosgerchian, though carrying a heavy teaching load here as Lecturer in Music, has yet maintained an impressive reputation. He hints that they were prejudiced against "works too difficult for the HRO" or "large Romantic concertos in general," neither of which is the case at all, as a glance at our programs for the past few seasons will reveal. David O. Lehman President Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
...other two contestants presented a difficult choice. Seth Carlin is the most virtuosic pianist I have heard at Harvard. His performance of the Rachmaninoff Second Concerto displayed a near-perfect technical mastery of that demanding score. The runs and complicated accompaniment figures came through clearly without covering the melodic line. Carlin also demonstrated rhythmic control and power that put his playing on a professional level...
...strong in Renaissance studies under Humanities Chairman Aldo Bernardo, who passed up an Ivy League Italian Chair from his alma mater, Brown University, to stay with S.U.N.Y. In just four years, Music Chairman Philip Nelson has added 24 teachers, given his department a national reputation. Such performing artists as Pianist Jean Casadesus, the Guarneri String Quartet (see Music) and the New York Woodwind Quintet all teach at Harpur...
There were, of course, other ways to measure the importance of Graffman's concert. Now at 39, he has slowly but persistently emerged as the top American pianist in his age group. His plat form manner is nononsense, but at the peak of his form he stirs poetry, fire and steel into whatever he plays. At a time when most younger American per formers make their loudest noise in the flashier side of the repertory -Prokofiev, Bartok, Liszt and the more extroverted Chopin - Graffman has matured into a musician able to challenge Europe's best in the more...