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Mozart: Piano Concerto in C, K. 246; Haydn: Piano Concerto in D (AnaMaria Vera pianist, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart conductor, Philips). Another up-and-coming pianist is Ana-Maria Vera of Washington, D.C. The joyous innocence with which she attacks these lighthearted concertos is at once admirable and touching. So is her sparkling technique and rapport with Maestro De Waart, the Dutchman who is succeeding Seiji Ozawa at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony. Ana-Maria, born in 1965. was eleven when this recording was made...
Beethoven: Sonata No. 21 in C (Waldstein), Eroica Variations (Pianist Emanuel Ax, RCA). Since winning the Artur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel in 1974, Emanuel Ax has devoted himself on records primarily to Chopin, and expertly so. Here he turns to Beethoven with a dream technique that more than meets the virtuoso demands of both works. But unlike many a prizewinner, he has much more than dexterity going for him. Ax controls the music completely, not it him. Such ease, logic and warmth suggest that he is a Beethoven pianist to keep...
...middle-aged ex-concert pianist and civic engineer, Sampson has worked with hypnosis in conjunction with psychologists and therapists for more than 25 years. For the last 15 years he has received clients in his modest Brookline apartment. In a series of five lessons, Sampson teaches his students "self-hypnosis", which is what he calls his hypnosis program. After the lessons Sampson says each client can hypnotize himself to achieve "self-embetterment...
Carter traces his fondness for the arts, and particularly music, to an influential schoolteacher he had in Plains and an Annapolis roommate who was an accomplished pianist. He and Wife Rosalynn once took a correspondence course in great operas (she complained that he played the records too loud). After two months in the White House, he has made three visits to Kennedy Center -for a Washington Opera Society production of Madame Butterfly, Hal Hoibrook's Mark Twain Tonight! and a New York City Ballet Company performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream...
Brings Tears. Carter has not entirely done away with the usual White House practice of reaching to Hollywood or Broadway for entertainment at black-tie evenings, but he has managed to import classical stars like Pianist Rudolf Serkin, who played at the state dinner for Mexican President Lopez Portillo, and the Juilliard String Quartet, which played during Inaugural festivities in the East Room. After the guests had departed. Carter apologized to the quartet for not being able to give his full attention to the music and asked if they would perform an encore. Following a stirring rendition of a movement...