Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conclude this year's season, the BankBoston Celebrity Series served up one long dessert of a concert: pianist Richard Goode and soprano Dawn Upshaw performed in a packed Jordan Hall, Each of these superb musicians is so busy in a solo career, it's surprising their yearly tours happen at all--surprising, but oh-so-fortunate. Their teamwork Saturday night produced uncannily, conceptually flawless music and drew a bath of beautiful sound...
Panels and performances during the course of the reunion weekend will feature current and former fellows, including pianist Veronica Jochum Von Moltke, who will perform works of Clara Schumann tonight...
...appearance he has a slightly academic rumple. But people in the design community tell another story, of dinners for 15 or so at the Arnaults' home in the elegant 16th arrondissement. There he relaxes and heads for the piano (favorite composer: Chopin). He calls himself an amateur pianist; he practices twice a week, still learning new pieces. His wife Helene is a concert pianist who has just finished a Canadian tour. "We once gave a concert together," Bernard recalls. "But once was enough--too much work." Mme. Arnault plays a different sort of duet with Bernard; Lacroix believes that often...
...Friday, I finally got around to seeing Shine. The Oscar-winning film is supposedly about the resurrection of a brilliant (Jewish) child pianist who, having been incapacitated by his father's Holocaust-induced mental abuse, later in life makes a triumphal return to the stage...
DIED. EUGENIE ANDERSON, 87, first female U.S. ambassador; in Red Wing, Minnesota. Trained as a concert pianist, Anderson plunged into politics in Minnesota and was an organizer of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Truman named her ambassador to Denmark in 1949, where she rode a bicycle, as most Danes did. In the '60s she headed the legation in Bulgaria where she openly defied the secret police...