Word: pianists
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...exciting acceptance for the Music Department, Professor Robert D. Levin '68 joins the Faculty this fall. Levin, a world-renowned concert pianist, has specialized in completing many of Mozart's unfinished compositions...
Robert D. Levin '68, now a professor of music and a concert pianist, came to Harvard having studied music extensively in Europe...
...stilled voices on the new disc belonged to Ervin Schulhoff, a Prague- born composer and associate of George Grosz and Paul Klee, who died at age 48 in 1942 in the Wulzburg camp; Vitezslava Kapralova, a Czech-born pianist and conducting student of Charles Munch, who, only 25, perished in 1940 of tuberculosis while attempting to get to America; and Gideon Klein, another Czech composer, who died in 1945 at the age of 25 after trips to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Furstengrubbe...
Kapralova's brief Dubnova Preludia Suite for piano is another strong work, dedicated to the pianist Rudolf Firkusny, who knew her in Paris before the war. In four short movements this collection of miniatures displays the Slavic influence of her teacher, Bohuslav Martinu, in its deft command of keyboard technique, sharp ear for piquant sonority and angular, accented melodies...
...Pianist Leon Fleisher: one hand, three concertos...