Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hall, where the studious audiences are frequently shell-shocked by modern scores, last week resounded to the bombastic New York premiere of Music Walk with Dancer by avant-garde U.S. Composer John Cage. Composer Cage's electronic nightmare lasted ten minutes and required the services of Cage himself, Pianist David Tudor and Dancer Jill Johnston. Occasionally reading directions from slips of paper, they scurried from one short-wave radio to another, twiddling dials and assaulting the audience with a drumfire of rattles, bangs, pops and nonsense syllables roared into a microphone. Occasionally they turned on an electric blender...
...York Philharmonic's Maestro Leonard Bernstein, 43, in his latest outburst of podium pedagogy. Answer: "Sometimes one, sometimes the other, but almost always the two manage to get together"-except in the case that prompted Lenny's musings: the latest Philharmonic appearance of intractable but talented Pianist Glenn Gould, 29. After explaining to the 2,800 in the audience that he disapproved of Gould's interpretation of Brahms's D Minor but would defend to the death an artist's right to experiment, Lenny democratically beckoned the intense Canadian to the stage. Gould-who considers...
...Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), and planned for syndication to TV stations all over the country, which will have to find their own sponsors. Each program runs an hour-or sometimes a bit more if the material requires the extra time-and only one commercial interrupts it. This week Concert Pianist Rudolf Serkin appears with the Budapest String Quartet in an hour of Beethoven and Schumann. The cameras come down close on Serkin's surprisingly pudgy fingers and recede into high overhead shots, but for the most part they keep still and leave the music uncorrupted by jazzy TV techniques...
Last month Maria Scicolone was married to Romano Mussolini, son of Il Duce and now a jazz pianist. "Since Maria has been married in white in church and in the eye of the world, my happiness is nearly complete as a mother." says Romilda. "But never as long as I live will I overcome my hate for Scicolone. Now he comes around trying to be friendly, but we don't want him, and my vendetta was nearly complete when Maria refused to let him come to her wedding. That is poetic justice." Nonetheless, when he comes around, Romilda still...
Because he is small (5 ft. 6 in.), mop-haired and young (19), Israeli Pianist Daniel Barenboim sometimes resembles a rebellious child who would rather be playing baseball than fondling the keys. Playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra last week on a U.S. tour that opened with a triumphant appearance in New York, he swiveled around in moments of inaction and regarded the orchestra's string section with an intensity so fierce that it seemed ready to wither the first violinists. But Barenboim's dis concerting mannerisms are only the mark of an extra-attentive and highly sensitive...