Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hall. "Very well. Here are the elements you may find: certainly Schoenberg, Mahler, perhaps Bartok. This is the music of a very eclectic man, and you should hear the passion of Spain, the worldliness of Vienna, the German methodology, the English love of tradition." With that, New York Philharmonic Pianist Paul Jacobs sounded the first six notes of the tone row with a crashing force that introduced to the U.S. the haunting Symphony No. 1 of Spanish-Exile Composer Roberto Gerhard. When the final note was sounded by a lone violin, it was clear that the premiere had been long...
...years. He grew up in jazz in Detroit with Milt Jackson, Billy Mitchell, Kenny Burrell and the Jones brothers. And he still prefers playing with his old townsmen, who now form something like a private labor union inside modern jazz. Hank Jones remains his idea of a really good pianist, and for the trio he hopes to form eventually, he would like Hank's brother Elvin on drums and Detroit's Major Holley on bass...
Born. To Romano Mussolini, 35, jazz pianist son of Italy's Il Duce; and Maria Scicolone, 24, younger sister of Cinemactress Sophia Loren: their first child, a girl; in Rome. Name: Alessandra...
Victoria de los Angeles and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Duets (Gerald Moore, pianist; Angel). Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky are among the composers visited in this beautiful introduction to a part of the vocal repertory now rarely heard in the concert hall...
When Sviatoslav Richter first stepped out from behind the Iron Curtain two years ago, the chorus of praise that greeted him carried one hesitant note. Richter is a great pianist, the critics decreed, "in the Russian style." Last week, after Richter gave three recitals in Paris and appeared in a new German recording of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, the European press revised its first estimates. Said the Paris Art: "Sviatoslav Richter is the greatest pianist in the world...