Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow psychiatrist leaned forward intently. "You will write your concerto," he intoned. "You will work with great facility ... The concerto will be of excellent quality." On the couch lay Sergei Rachmaninoff, 27, in a hypnotic trance. At the time (1900) Rachmaninoff was noted as a pianist and conductor. But as a composer he was notorious. His First Symphony had been premiered three years earlier to unanimous disapproval, so shattering his confidence that in the time since he had been unable to compose at all. Of his monumental block, Rachmaninoff recalled years later: "I felt like a man who had suffered...
...London and introduced him to members of her circle, including W.B. Yeats. She designed several of her husband's books and magazines in Paris, and was the mother of Pound's son Omar. During World War II she shared her home and her husband with Concert Pianist Olga Rudge, who had borne Pound a daughter. Dorothy Pound followed her husband to the U.S. in 1945 when, instead of being tried for treason, he was incarcerated in a mental hospital. She became his legal guardian and visited him every day for twelve years. When he was released, she returned...
...others: Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett). Three of the classic skits from that show are being reprised in Good Evening. There is the one-legged actor who, hopping across the floor kangaroo-fashion, applies to a producer for the role of Tarzan. Moore, who is also an adept pianist, parodies half a dozen great composers as they might have written the Colonel Bogey March, and Cook does his lugubriously farcical monologue about the miner who dreamed of becoming a judge. A good Good Evening, indeed, with the cheeriest imaginable company...
Brahms's Sonata Number One in G. for violin and piano (op. 78) was played by two Kirkland House alumni who have since gone on to musical careers, James Buswell '70, violinist, and Seth Carlin '69, pianist, played a superbly controlled rendition of the emotion-packed Sonata in G. Both tended towards exaggerated body movements, Buswell panting and rising to his toes with crescendos, and Carlin bouncing his hands all over the keyboard, but the visual did not adversely affect the aural. The piece is prone to cloying over-interpretation, but Buswell and Carlin kept their music disciplined and precise...
...lives quietly with his wife Alyce, an accomplished pianist, and their two daughters in Beverly Hills. A sports fan, he gets to every prizefight and Los Angeles Lakers game he can manage. He plays golf in the low 80s and is a self-confessed "pool junkie" who cut himself off cold turkey a few years ago. "I liked it too much," he says. Now he spends his spare time developing a recently discovered talent for drawing...