Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NIRVANA (Atlantic). Flutist Herbie Mann and Pianist Bill Evans stage a slowdown, giving a performance that is either extremely cool or simply congealed. There are some pleasant Oriental overtones but scarcely a beat, let alone a pulse, in most of the pieces (Willow Weep for Me, Mann's Nirvana); Cole Porter's I Love You is a cheerful exception...
...Inauguration Eve concert, with Washington's National Symphony under Howard Mitchell, and with Violinist Isaac Stern, Pianist Van Cliburn, and Singers Todd Duncan and Theresa Coleman, was the cultural event of the week...
...winners of the annual Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concerto contest were Allan D. Vogel '65, of Adams House and New York City, an oboeist, and Robert D. Levin '68, of Greenough Hall and Rosedale, N.Y., a pianist. The two will play in a concerto concert with the Orchestra in the spring...
BRAHMS: FANTASIES OPUS 116 (Deutsche Grammophon). What Van Cliburn lacks in the Brahms concerto, Pianist Wilhelm Kempff supplies here in full measure, condensing a whole spectrum of feelings into these seven melodic miniatures of Brahms's maturity...
...yard of outing flannel stands between me and a nervous breakdown" -is constantly threatened by the dog Snoopy or the visiting grandmother who disapproves of such habits (and drinks 32 cups of coffee a day). Lucy's love for Schroeder goes unrequited; the heart of the little blond pianist belongs only to Beethoven. Charlie Brown's lowpowered positive thinking-"I actually believe that I can fly this kite"-always ends in a tangle of string...