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...appeal was phenomenal. The largest-selling classical pianist in history, he made more than 200 records, which sold 10 million copies. Although Rubinstein was a modern pianist in such things as fidelity to the score and a desire that his playing call attention only to the music, never to itself, he was also a direct link to the pianistic tradition of the 19th century; when audiences heard Rubinstein perform, they were listening to a man born six months after Liszt died. No wonder Violinist Isaac Stern last week called Rubinstein "part of the centrality of music in our time...
Tsuzuki, an East Asian Studies concentrator, takes lessons from pianist Martin Canin of the Julliard School in New York City. She soloed in 1980 with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta in the Young People's Concert Series and has performed many times with symphonies in central New Jersey. She has also given three solo recitals in Tokyo...
...wonder. In the 100 years of its existence, the Berlin has had only four principal music directors, each a master. Hans von Bülow, an eminent pianist and one of the first great conductors, exposed the fledgling orchestra to the great composers of the day, among them Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Grieg. His successor Arthur Nikisch, who led the Philharmonic from 1895 to 1922, inspired a rapturous comment from the demanding Tchaikovsky. "He doesn't conduct," said the composer. "He seems to surrender himself to some mysterious magic force." Wilhelm Furtwängler instilled in the orchestra a sense...
...piame to play a Joni Mitchell song. "A lot of you know me as one who resorts to poor taste for laughs. Well, I've changed and discovered flok music and I'd like to play you something that means a lot to me "Weinstein, an accomplished pianist, began a tendition of "Both Sides Now" playing the first verse straight. Then came a rewritten second verse featuring refences to personal hygiense and ses that were, to underlate cude. I thought the first year was bad, "syasaother House resident "Last year was the worst...
...town 65 miles northwest that of Oklahoma City whose residents are usually more intent on dealing in wheat, poultry and oil than nurturing opera singers. Her father, a Pentecostal minister, played a number of instruments by ear, and her mother, a nurse, was also a pianist. Leona inherited their musical gifts, singing in the church choir and dabbling with the violin. As a senior in high school, she once learned an aria from Aida by rote, since she could not read music. To please a teacher, she auditioned for the music department at Oklahoma City University; to her astonishment...