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...onetime avant-garde pianist who has been performing for many years. Among other new works, I introduced Bartók's Second Piano Concerto in New York City as early as 1947.1 always felt I was one step ahead of my time. Yet, I was horrified to read your glowing account of Maestro Pierre Boulez's newest "creation" that was recently performed in France [Dec. 28]. Repons is certainly not the answer to this listener's prayer. Compositions made with the aid of a computer negate everything that music stands for. Andor Foldes Herrliberg, Switzerland
...widow of the author's other son Leonid, do not live in the house, but they have diligently kept it in repair and conducted tours for visitors. Everything has been preserved just as it was when Pasternak was living. Among the keepsakes: the piano where the noted Russian pianist Svyatoslav Richter played all through the night Pasternak died, and the worn kitchen table where Pasternak lifted toasts of vodka the day he learned he had won the Nobel Prize. Upstairs is the oak desk where he wrote, surrounded by shelves lined with hundreds of his books, including foreign language...
DIED. Victor Buono, 43, corpulent actor who made a career playing heavies; of a heart attack; in Apple Valley, Calif. Buono's epicene, buffoonish pianist in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? won him an Oscar nomination...
...musicology, Walsh has written a piano sonata and a string quartet. Says he: "Only someone who has gone through the agony of putting notes on paper to form a coherent musical structure can know what a tremendous achievement a good piece of music is." He is also an accomplished pianist. In the mid-1970s he gave a series of concerts in upstate New York of 19th and 20th century American popular songs, and he owns an extensive collection of turn-of-the-century sheet music. He relaxes from his musical chores in his Greenwich Village high-rise...
...hottest tickets in the capital. The some 2,000 guests who attended this year's event witnessed the presentation of lifetime-achievement awards in the performing arts to an august quintet: Actor Cary Grant, 77, Actress Helen Hayes, 81, Jazzman Count Basie, 75, Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin, 78. The gala will be broadcast by CBS on Dec. 26. Said a pleased Hayes, "Us old-timers were like kids who were graduating magna cum laude-we were really sailing above the earth...