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...makes almost every song accessible. In many Harvard musicals the leads sing considerably better than the supporting cast. However, in Love is in the Air each vocalist does an impressive job, though Lynda Doctoroff stands out for her clear, powerful voice and considerable acting ability. And David Eggar, the pianist, both provides skillful accompaniment and shows his own talent during the piano solos of such songs as "Being Alive...
...Haffner," with a scaled-down orchestra assembled from the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard School Orchestra, was peculiar because it broke off after the minuet. Then came two piano concertos, two piano solos, a serenade and four individual arias (all admirably performed by such soloists as pianist Jeffrey Kahane and soprano Dawn Upshaw) before the "Haffner" finale arrived as a kind of farewell...
ALAN FEINBERG: THE AMERICAN ROMANTIC (Argo). This young pianist displays his uncommon grasp of the romantic idiom in these flavorful, virtuoso pieces by ^ U.S. composers Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Amy Beach and Robert Helps...
...Education nominee faces the unenviable task of explaining the minority-scholarship policy at his confirmation hearings next month. But if anyone can bring some sense of political harmony to the issue, it may well be the pragmatic Alexander, a musically versatile classical pianist who also likes to sit in with Tennessee washboard bands. Commenting last week on the financial-aid flap, he deftly declared, "I find it's often best to approach questions of this kind with a warm heart and common sense...
JELLY ROLL MORTON: THE JELLY ROLL MORTON CENTENNIAL -- HIS COMPLETE VICTOR RECORDINGS (Bluebird/RCA). This jaunty, saucy pianist with a diamond-studded tooth and an ego as big as Mount Rushmore claimed to have invented jazz. He didn't quite do that. But he did compose, arrange and perform some of the greatest jazz ever played, as this digitally remastered 5-CD set, spanning the years 1926-39, amply demonstrates...