Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Alec Templeton, 52. blind Welsh-born concert pianist whose dry sense of humor led him to improvise satires of the old masters (he once fooled London critics into praising his hoked-up version of It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as an unknown work of Mozart), after which he traveled to the U.S. in 1935, where he was such a hit that he stayed to become a citizen in 1941 and the radio idol of 6,000,000 weekly listeners in the days when Jack Benny and the late Fred Allen provided the competition; of cancer...
Equally interesting musically was the trio of pianist Pete Loeb. Loeb, who operates on the frontiers of, jazz, sounds a little like Thelonius Monk but is really his own man. He attacks a tune from all sides, alternating carefully spaced dissonances with tantalizing, full-handed chords. His bassist, John Voigt, provided a beautiful, sustained solo on Misty...
Author Toklas, who is now 85, and still living in Paris, grew up in "necessary luxury" in a wealthy Jewish family in San Francisco. She dabbled in the arts, and for a time considered a career as a concert pianist. But in her late 205, she met Michael Stein, older brother of Gertrude, and swiftly learned from him about cultural activity in Paris; she sailed for France in 1907. Within a few days of her arrival in Paris she met Gertrude and knew immediately that she was in the presence of a genius...
...Monday night Ursula Oppens '65 and Geoffrey T. Hellman '65 will take part in a demonstration class taught by pianist Leonard Shure. Afterwards, Shure, who has performed with major orchestras including the Boston Symphony, will play Beethoven's Sonata Opus...
...modern music. Said Colin Mason of the Guardian: "Although it is not likely ever to find a place in the repertory, we should hear it a few more times yet to savor its humor and originality before putting it on the shelf as an immature work." As for Pianist Kentner, he thinks the Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra is uneven, but, says: "The best part is certainly the last part, where we get to something like the real Bartok...