Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great was the excitement before the single Royal Albert Hall performance of Arthur Honegger's stage oratorio, Joan of Arc at the Stake, that the Observer compared it to the time in September 1968 when Pianist Daniel Barenboim was warned that he was going to be shot during a concert. The big attraction, however, was not murder; the oratorio was bringing together the professional talents of the recently married lovers Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, she as Joan, he as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and a children's choir. The critics were...
Many a concert pianist spends years and a small fortune developing a distinctive personal presence. England's John Ogdon, 34, comes by his without effort. A huge, goateed, bespectacled, ambling hulk of a man, he is virtually impossible to ignore. It is not just his looks, though, that have made him the leading figure among Britain's younger pianists. Even in an age when glittering technique is almost taken for granted, Ogdon's facility for both the finespun and the fantastic is prodigious. Says Stephen Bishop, 30, a London-based American, and a friendly keyboard rival...
...welcome on the White House lawn, and that was about as close as he came to a statement on Spain's policies. The most political note of the visit was injected during a White House dinner, when President Nixon announced that the next number to be played by Pianist Sergio Mendes would be Fool on the Hill. Then Nixon noted: "For all my colleagues from the Congress, I want to say [Mendes] chose it-I didn...
Died. Martha Baird Rockefeller, 75, onetime concert pianist, second wife and widow of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and stepmother to the five Rockefeller brothers and their sister, Mrs. Jean Mauzé; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Young Martha Baird played under such conductors as Pierre Monteux, Sir Thomas Beecham and Serge Koussevitzky. She retired in 1931, married Rockefeller in 1951 and became a generous patroness of music. Besides establishing the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music to aid young musicians, she backed the recent Metropolitan Opera productions of Norma and Fidelio and the New York City Opera...
...rigidly centralized economic control, and his ideas are now widely emulated in Eastern Europe. An estimated one-third of the Soviet Academy of Sciences is Jewish. Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and perhaps 90% of the Bolshoi Orchestra are Jewish, as are Violinists Leonid Kogan and David Oistrakh and Pianist Emil Gilels. Nor do the Soviet Jews face the open, rampant persecution that German Jews endured in Hitler's Third Reich. But that is small consolation for the vast majority of Russia's 3,500,000 Jews who suffer job discrimination, racial slurs, and the anxiety that arises...