Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Robert Casadesus, 73, French composer and pianist, best known for his pure, elegantly phrased interpretations of Mozart, Rameau, Debussy and Ravel; of cancer of the pancreas; in Paris. Born in Paris and trained at the piano from the age of four, Casadesus composed more than 60 works of his own including six symphonies. More widely recognized as a performer, he made 3,000 concert appearances during his 50-year career, as well as at least 30 recordings. Included in his concert repertory were several seldom performed compositions, three-piano concertos that Casadesus played with his wife Gaby and elder...
Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, college kids would no more have been without their LPs of Pianist Dave Brubeck's Jazz Goes to College, Brubeck Time* and Impressions of Eurasia than their paperbacks of Steppenwolf or The Catcher in the Rye. But five years ago Brubeck suddenly disbanded what was probably the most popular jazz quartet of the post-World War II era. He had earned his secure nook in history and was hankering after other accomplishments. For one thing, he wanted to compose serious music-and he soon turned out three major religious works, including...
...Generations. The musical Brubeck brood ranges in age from Darius, 25, like his father a composer-pianist, to Charles, 11, no mean slouch on cello and piano. It includes Danny, 17, who plays drums in Darius' jazz combo, and Chris, 20, the leader of a rock group known as New Heavenly Blue. (Every family has its black sheep; among the Brubecks there are two: Michael, 23, a horse-trainer, and Sister Catherine, 18, whose ambition is to teach underprivileged children.) When the family gets together to perform, as happened recently at the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island, they...
...real Andre Previn, who has since recovered his stolen wallet, cites this story to illustrate his impact on music audiences since he became principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra four years ago. Previn is England's newest cottage industry, a musician in constant permutation-conductor-composer, composer-pianist, pianist-conductor-producing music in such unremitting abundance on television, recordings and in the concert halls that one expects any day to find him busking with mouth organ for the queues at the Palladium...
Died. Oscar Levant, 65, composer and pianist whose dour, waspish wit nourished a turbulent career in radio, television and films (see SHOW BUSINESS & TELEVISION...