Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Special credit should go to pianist Philip Morehead for assembling the program and arranging to have it performed at Harvard. On leave from the Music Department this year, he will be returning in the fall as the music tutor of Lowell House. If Friday's concert was a preview of his plans for next year, music lovers have great deal to which they can look forward...
Died. Philippa Schuyler, 34, Harlem-born pianist with a strong journalistic and humanitarian bent, a onetime child prodigy who performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at 14, in later years made concert tours to many of the world's troubled areas, recounting her impressions in newspaper articles and several outspoken books (Who Killed the Congo), also helped found the Amerasian Foundation to aid the mothers of illegitimate children fathered by U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter; near Danang, South Viet Nam, where she was doubling as entertainer and correspondent...
...guiding principle of the Harvard Music Department, it is often said, is that music should be seen and not heard. The recital by Easley Blackwood Monday night was one of the department's rare gestures of support to performing music. Composer-pianist Blackwood performed works by Schoenberg, Charles Ives, himself, and Harvard's own John Perkins (of Music 154 fame...
Blackwood is an excellent pianist. In addition to superb technique, he has an uncanny instinct for voicing. This sort of music is so often made to sound like an inchoate mass of notes; Blackwood, aided by his composer's understanding of musical structure, made it come alive...
...drive to tear up all roots that bind China to Western culture, many top artists and performers are going through the same hell that Ma did. It was reported that Liu Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have...