Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Evans, pianist, appears in recital. Holmes Hall, North House...
Funky Spirit. It is an unusual place to look for truth, but Bob Rafelson makes movies (Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens) in which that search is always eccentric, the conclusion indefinite. Like Bobby Dupea, the runaway pianist of Five Easy Pieces, Craig is spiritually disenfranchised, in flagrant rebellion against his class. Craig revels in the funky spirit at the Olympic, and Rafelson, with his offbeat sense of humor, his knack for visual surprise, turns the spa into a suitably shabby field of honor. Joe Santo trains for the Mr. Universe competition by pressing weights in a Batman...
...sustain the richness of the first half, the concert will close with the grandiloquent Brahms Second Piano Concerto, with Richard Kogan '77 appearing as solo pianist. The composition is considered one of the most difficult works in the piano literature, not only from a technical standpoint, but more importantly, because of its musical demands...
...Bronx. He is Murray Perahia, 29, a slight, dark, fine-boned pianist who looks rather like some 19th century poet. The music he favors is gentle too. Playing Mendelssohn or Chopin, he closes his eyes, lifts his face toward the ceiling, and effortlessly-sometimes while smiling whimsically-spins out a bright melody. Yet later on in a program, he can also hammer out Bartok with enough flash and thunder to rival anyone's musical fireworks...
...experience, and well aware that he needed a competition success to make a name for himself. Fighting nausea all the way, he won England's important Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. That brought him 50 performing dates and a contract with Columbia Records, which had not signed a new pianist since Andre Watts in the mid-1960s. His concert fees started to rise. (He now makes $5,000 per engagement...