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...laws of the genre. As Author Patty Matthews has it: "You get your heroine up a tree and then throw stones at her. In the end she gets the man, the money and the happiness." In Rhapsody (Pocket; $2.75), a typical contemporary, Lane is afraid to tell the desirable pianist, Michael, that she is a talent agent. When he discovers her occupation, Michael mistakenly believes that she loves him only for his signature on a contract...
...ensemble began as the dream of a few close friends, most with Juilliard backgrounds, who had been freelancing around the new-music scene in New York City. "We would fantasize about the ideal group," Pianist Ursula Oppens told TIME'S Nancy Newman. "It would have infinite rehearsal time to prepare wonderful pieces and play them wonderfully." A pair of concerts at Manhattan's Public Theater early in 1971 and a six-week residency at Dartmouth that summer convinced them that there was a market for their dream. With the acquisition of a manager, Speculum...
Looking back on 25 years with the Beaux Arts Trio, cellist Bernard Greenhouse comments. "I think it's a miracle! Twenty-five years is a long time to be together: I'm surprised we're still talking to each other." Indeed Greenhouse and his companions, violinist Isidore Cohen and pianist Menahem Pressler, are still the closest of friends, in spite of the strain of playing more than 125 concerts around the world every year. One reason the group has kept its sanity over the years is that the members maintain a distinct separateness when not on tour. They hardly ever...
...pianist, Pressler cannot travel with his instrument and so is more at the mercy of circumstance. He must perform on whatever piano happens to be in the hall when he arrives: in the past, these have included an out-of-tune upright and a piano with no pedals. When not performing with the trio. Pressler goes home to Bloomington, Indiana, where he is a professor at Indiana University. He keeps an active schedule of engagements with such orchestras as the Cleveland, the Philadelphia, and the New York Philharmonic. He has also appeared with such ensembles as the Julliard...
Neither is shocked to learn that a brilliant young pianist has killed himself out of unrequited love for Genia, or that Friedrich has been gallivanting with the wife of a mutual friend. Each is slightly chagrined by the booby traps set by their own hearts and in the hearts of others...