Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lotharios. One furtively removes his wedding ring, only to see it go spinning crazily off among the dancing feet. In an endearing seduction scene that avoids nearly every nudenik movie cliché, the shy blonde hasn't a stitch on by the time she reproachfully tells her playboy-pianist: "I don't trust you." He, in turn, observes boyish discretion by bounding up at intervals to tussle with a window shade that lets in too much light. The sly tone is sustained through a dormitory matron's wonderfully irrelevant lecture on morals to the film...
Died. Florence Ellinwood Allen, 82, pioneer woman jurist, who, after a damaged nerve thwarted her ambition to be a concert pianist, turned to law in Ohio, where she became the nation's first woman to be elected a county prosecutor (1920), first woman elected to a state supreme court (1922) and first woman appointed to a U.S. court of appeals (1934); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Waite Hill, Ohio...
...When we started playing, man, they forgot all about Viet Nam." It was Jazz Pianist Earl ("Fatha") Mines crooning as he and his cool, cool sextet finished up a six-week gig around Russia. After inviting them, the Soviet government did everything it could think of to mash the smash-even going so far as to cancel scheduled performances in Moscow and Leningrad. Hines and his boys found plenty of cats in the boondocks, playing to S.R.O. crowds. "Jazz is happiness," grinned Fatha. "I know the Russians don't have much to smile about, but after they heard...
...cellist was "exceptional," declared Boston Symphony Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein. The pianist played "as well as anybody need ever play," said Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. The soloists who won these praises from such rigorous judges were not big concert stars but virtually unknown American students: New York City's Stephen Kates, 23, and Los Angeles' Misha Dichter, 20, both fresh from winning silver medals at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
...Pianist Dichter-who was born in Shanghai midway in his parents' flight from Poland in 1945-also turned on Tanglewood's audiences. He played the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, a risky selection for any young pianist ever since Van Cliburn's powerful, sweeping version of it carried him to victory in the 1958 Moscow competition. But Dichter made the concerto his own, giving it unusual clarity and lightness...