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...status. Whether seamlessly integrating Frankie V’s spontaneous melodies into his own supple chord-building or cheekily paying homage to arena rock in the club’s small confines, Bartlett was the rhythm section rock on which Frankie was able to build great flights of fancy. Pianist Israel Tannenbaum played an almost ironic performance, leaping up and down the keyboard in vertical chords under the effigy of Lester Young, a soloist renowned for his horizontal and compressed playing. Tannenbaum also contributed one of the evening’s more poignant moments, a fractured version...
...Thomas F. Kelly jokes, “in the icy shadow of the Science Center,” it is inhabited by faculty “who not only have wide ranges of interest but also often outside musical careers”—for example, famed classical pianist and Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68. However, this makes for anything but the stereotypical “diva” atmosphere assumed to pervade music departments. According to Kelly, “though we have many programs which could ignore each other, we rejoice...
...genius," maestro George Szell reportedly said about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. The quote describes comix artist Chris Ware as well. Author of last year's critically-acclaimed graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," Ware has finally come out with issue fifteen in his comicbook series "The Acme Novelty Library." After a year and a half of waiting, rest assured that his reputation(s) remain intact...
...season for Stephen Hough. First, his high-profile appearance at Lincoln Center's Rachmaninoff Revisited festival in New York City, where he was scheduled to play the Russian composer's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, was scratched on account of Sept. 11. Just six weeks later, though, the pianist got a jaw-dropping phone call that wiped out all the disappointment and then some. He learned he had been tapped for a coveted MacArthur Fellowship, the $500,000 "genius grant" awarded for brilliance above and beyond the call of duty, a prize never before given to a classical performer...
Soft-spoken and modest to a fault, the pianist converted to Roman Catholicism as a teenager. "My faith affects my art because it affects my life," he explains. "Specifically, it puts things into perspective--success, failure, the opinions of others and all of the madness of life. I'm also conscious of participating in the creation of beauty when I play great music and of dealing with matters beyond the world of words...