Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beautiful brown fortepiano came with four well-dressed movers who brought the instrument onto center stage as the soloist, British pianist David Owen Norris, explained that the fortepiano was built in Mendelssohn's lifetime (1823) and was thus better suited to the composer's little tricks and idiosyncrasies...
...music and motions. At the end of a phrase he would sweep his arms up as if to gesture to the orchestra and say, "Now it's your turn." The piano concerto is one of those pieces that is supposed to put all the listeners in awe of the pianist. It is fun to hear, and maybe even more fun to watch it performed. Perhaps Norris was a little too virtuosic in the concerto: while the notes were technically accurate, it was hard to make sense of the quick and dense passages, hard to appreciate Mendelssohn's skill and talent...
...worth it to ignore section work tonight. The Boston Conservatory is trotting out the big guns to tickle the ivories with the second installment of the "Piano Masters in Recital" series. Acclaimed Greek pianist Dimitri Toufexis will perform works by Debussy, Chopin, Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Gershwin. 8 p.m. Seully Hall, 8 The Fenway, Boston. 912-9122. FREE...
Conner has been a classical pianist since theage of 15 and was first introduced to show musicas an adult when he produced Irving Berlin'sAnnie Get Your...
...recent morning, a small dugout canoe made by his son resting on a nearby table, Howard Gardner talked about his work and the use others have made of it. A slender man with a soft face and hair flopping over his forehead, Gardner looks a bit like the concert pianist he might have been if he had pursued that career. After a long discussion of the merits of his theory, he tried to sum up his views. "Here's a credo I've never stated before," he said. "I'm sure there are lots of different intelligences. I'm sure...