Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinct disappointment. Recorded in the Philadelphia Academy of Music rather than in the ballroom used by Columbia, their sound is often dry and devoid of the luster for which the orchestra is famous. Charles Ives' Third Symphony and an LP of Grieg and Liszt concertos with Pianist Van Cliburn as soloist are the best of the lot. But the Chopin F-minor Concerto with Artur Rubinstein is heavy and graceless, and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony lacks the bite and immediacy of a nine-year-old version that Columbia re-engineered and rereleased last year. Bruckner's Seventh...
Despite their relatively brief collaboration, the quartet displays a seasoned, settled style-almost as if it had been playing together for a decade. Its tone is unfailingly rich and clear; its mastery of the ensemble form is so complete that even when performing with as experienced a musician as Pianist Artur Rubinstein its relative youth as a quartet is not all apparent...
Despite its Pythagorean formality, however, Xenakis' music bears his ingeniously personal mark. For instance, during a composition called Eonta (which means "beings" in Greek) three trombonists and two trumpeters march to and fro about the stage while a pianist flays wildly away at the keyboard. In Terretektorh (one of the coined Greek words that he uses to title his pieces), the musicians blow whistles, rattle maracas, clap wooden blocks and crack small whips besides coaxing unearthly sounds from conventional instruments. As in Terretektorh, the entire orchestra will be scattered throughout the audience during the world premi...
...EVENING WITH MAX MORATH. Singer-Pianist Max Morath provides ragtime piano playing and patter on the manners of turn-of-the-century America. An amiable show for those who miss the days of cherry phosphates and trolley transfers...
...most young people, classical music is a drag. Pianist Lorin Hollander, 24, thinks he knows why: "At a rock concert, the atmosphere is love. The rock groups talk their language. But at a classical concert, all they see is a guy in white tie and tails coming out very up tight on a platform. That's a plastic mannequin - society's little machine running up there. If live concerts are going to survive, the artists themselves are going to have to change...