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...highlight is a performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor by expert pianist Roy Kogan. Finished in 1845 and premiered by the composer's wife (one of the best pianists of her day), this concerto is at once exciting and poignant. It is also a sample of Schumann's style of piano composition at its finest. Rounding out the concert are Respighi's "Ancient Airs and Dances" Suite No. 1 and Mozart's Symphony No. 38, "Prague." The concert is in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. and tickets are available at Holyoke Center Ticket Office...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum continues this afternoon. This is an excellent and accessible series of weekly concerts, usually for organ, in a very congenial atmosphere. Max Muller plays works for organ today at 12:15; information is at 495-2317. And on Sunday, Lowell House Music Society presents pianist John Nichols and flautist Cathy Hodgeman in works of Bach and Handel. That's at Lowell House...
Dorothy Donegan, jazz pianist--at Lulu White, 3 Appleton...
...circle began in the dusty hamlet of Abbott, Texas, where Willie and his sister Bobbie, now the pianist in his band, were raised by gospel-singing grandparents; their parents had drifted off in opposite directions shortly after Willie was born. Willie was five when he got a guitar and a few rudimentary lessons from his grandfather, a blacksmith who had taken mail-order music courses. Soon Willie was pressing his ear against an old wooden Philco radio to hear Grand Ole Opry. At 13 he formed his own band-with his father, then living in a town 40 miles away...
...across the U.S. He can now command $3,000-$1,000 more than his precompetition rate. As for Rosen, he may be able to support himself as a soloist. Says he: "It is much more difficult for a cellist to have a soloist career than it is for a pianist or a violinist. It would be a fantastic achievement if I could do even a small thing to advance the cause of cellists...