Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forte is music, not films. Nonetheless, last week in Paris, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, 81, received an honorary Oscar for his contributions (the dialogue and the music) to L'Amour de la Vie, a movie based on reminiscences of his life. Asked if the pianist could also be considered an actor, Gregory Peck, an Oscar winner himself (To Kill a Mockingbird in 1963), who presented the statuette to Rubinstein, replied: "Good Lord, yes. He's a much better actor than...
...Cliburn, Pianist...
...bloodstream," Felicia sings raspily, "just a mixture of tar and nicotine. So give it up, put it down and leave it there." She smiles brightly through her recital of nicotine terrors, gets progressively hoarser, ends in a thoroughly convincing coughing fit. Created by Sanders and her husband, Pianist-Arranger Irving Joseph, It's a Drag is a confession of the singer's own past. She smoked half a pack a day for 20 years. "I got so I couldn't breathe properly, and I started worrying about my voice." As a singing crusader, though, Felicia Sanders...
With a hundred cellos gleaming on it, the stage of New York's Philharmonic Hall looked like the setting for a Busby Berkeley musical. The earlier part of the program included Soprano Beverly Sills, Pianist Rudolf Serkin and Conductor Leopold Stokowski. But "Salud Casals" night did not really get under way until the guest of honor arrived with his all-cello orchestra. The performers had gathered from all over the world. Each cellist financed his own trip and donated his services for the privilege of being led by Pablo Casals in one of his brief compositions, a Catalan Sardana...
...Boston Symphony decided to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's birth last week with a five day series of concerts, concentrating on the symphonies and piano concertos. The ailing music director, William Steinberg, brought in two distinguished conductors, Leonard Bernstein and Max Rudolf, and an equally fine pianist, Rudolf Serkin. As the week began, the prospects looked good...