Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Typecasting is a hazard not only for actors but for pianists. Yet for listeners it has certain advantages. There is always a little extra pleased surprise when a celebrated Beethoven thunderer like Viennese Pianist Alfred Brendel also proves a fine interpreter of Mozart, as he just has in this summer's Mostly Mozart Festival at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Folding his gawky body (6 ft. 1½ in., 164 lbs.) down on the piano stool like some large, clumsy bird, Brendel at times brought an almost wren-like elegance to the formalized passion of Mozart...
...Fantastic Island (1935), a book Ian Fleming obviously ransacked when he wrote Dr. No, the villain is a mad Russian pianist who owns an isolated Galapagos island, feeds his guests to a horde of clacking crabs and explains this little character problem in a marvelously sappy 19th century trope. "I am impelled to unspeakable desires," he sighs contentedly, "when my fingers wander over the keys...
...company's Red Seal line. An engagingly brash, native New Yorker who got his start 22 years ago as a clerk in a Manhattan discount-record store, Munves approached Artur Rubinstein with the idea of a Rubinstein's greatest-hits LP. "You are a vampire," said the pianist, and refused. But Rubinstein did go along with a reassemblage of old items called The Chopin I Love. This month, Munves brought out eleven LPs in a new "Composers' Greatest Hits" series. One of the albums was devoted to Gustav Mahler, neatly capitalizing on the use of his music...
...create for the human body to perform. Time and again Robbins presents familiar patterns and movements that somehow give the impression that they have never been danced before. Time and again the dances add nuanced dimensions to the music in much the same way that a first-rate pianist will do by playing...
Robbins was inspired to his choreography by a concert of Pianist Rosalyn Tureck. "I felt when I first heard her play the Variations," he says, "that it was a journey, a trip, that it took you in a tremendous arc through a whole cycle of life and then, as it were, back to the beginning." The words apply not only to the music, but to the ballet that Robbins created...