Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lynn Chang, violinist, and Richard Kogan, pianist. Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata, and Brahma: Sonata #3 in d minor. Admission $3.00 (students $1.50) for the benefit of the Chinese Language School...
Michele Sahm, Flutist, Philip Morehead pianist, and others. Music of Stravinsky, Maderna and Ibert...
...least for the foreseeable future, it might as well be accepted with some degree of good cheer. The title cut kicks things off with air-raid sirens sounding, bombs exploding, and machine guns firing mixed over a breakfast conversation between husband and wife. Anderson on alto sax joins pianist John Evan to lend a madrigal-like impression to the opening few measures. The tune progresses as it deals with war's romantic side, a romanticism evoked musically by the coupling of a flowing melody (played by the strings) and a series of ascending and descending runs (banged out an Evan...
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G completed the concert with half a dozen curtain calls and rounds of applause. Richard Kogan, in his solo performance, achieved a combination of passion and sweetness expressed through an extraordinary technique that no other pianist at Harvard has paralleled. Pianistically, the Fourth Concerto is probably the most difficult of the five Beethoven wrote. But Kogan played the intricate passages of trills and double thirds seemingly without effort, while on a large scale he projected a carefully balanced scheme of dynamics that caught and held the audience's attention. Combined with the grandeur...
...concert with a woman as a conductor. In the 1930s Antonia organized an all-woman orchestra in New York. Later she brought men into it, because, as she says quite reasonably, "women and men are together in life." Along with her various orchestras, sheponducted a running feud with Pianist Jose Iturbi, who allowed lhat he thought the female gender made for a certain frailty of musician ship. Antonia is modest only in aspect, not in intention. Collins and Godmilow mean to show that a musician of invigorating talent was shunted aside because of a prejudice against her sex that still...