Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHOPIN: CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E MINOR (Seraphim). Taped from a 1948 broadcast, this is a performance by Dinu Lipatti, the fabled Rumanian pianist who died of Hodgkin's disease at 33. The concerto gives no hint of the sweep and virility Lipatti was capable of, but reveals his lyrical side, warm and magically sustained. The sound is a bit dim, and one seems to be listening by moonlight...
ELUES ETUDE (Limelight). Oscar Peterson is still a topflight jazz pianist-a suave swinger with impeccable technique-crisp, fast and featherlight. But half these tracks catch him with a new drummer and bassist, and at times the trio seems merely to be making polite conversation. Oscar softly grunts and moans, rather surprising accompaniments for urbane offerings like Let's Fall in Love and The Shadow of Your Smile...
Young Upstart. As a child in Graz, Austria, Böhm tagged after the town band to play make-believe maestro. At the insistence of his father, he entered law school, but often cut classes to serve as substitute conductor and pianist at the Graz Opera. At 25, he took a few hours off from rehearsals to pick up his law degree, then rushed back to conduct a performance of The Flying Dutchman...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 "Tanglewood-Music Under the Trees" takes a look at the Berkshire Music Festival in Tanglewood, Mass, with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Composers Aaron Copland and Gunther Schuller; Sopranos Phyllis Curtin and Jane Marsh; and Pianist Grant Johannesen...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "A Portrait of Van Cliburn" follows the pianist from rehearsal to performance and during rare relaxation...