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...hour. Last week both were back at Carnegie Hall, along with the New York Philharmonic and a contingent of famous colleagues, for a fund-raising gala to celebrate the hall's 85th anniversary. Among the performers: Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who had come to play at his first nighttime concert in 35 years. The program, which cost up to $ 1,000 per ticket and inspired $1.2 million in contributions to the impoverished performance center, included compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Tchaikovsky-the latter having conducted at Carnegie Hall...
...Pianist Ruth Pergament performs selections by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt and Schumann. Winthrop Junior Common Room...
David Evans, pianist, appears in recital. Holmes Hall, North House...
Funky Spirit. It is an unusual place to look for truth, but Bob Rafelson makes movies (Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens) in which that search is always eccentric, the conclusion indefinite. Like Bobby Dupea, the runaway pianist of Five Easy Pieces, Craig is spiritually disenfranchised, in flagrant rebellion against his class. Craig revels in the funky spirit at the Olympic, and Rafelson, with his offbeat sense of humor, his knack for visual surprise, turns the spa into a suitably shabby field of honor. Joe Santo trains for the Mr. Universe competition by pressing weights in a Batman...
...sustain the richness of the first half, the concert will close with the grandiloquent Brahms Second Piano Concerto, with Richard Kogan '77 appearing as solo pianist. The composition is considered one of the most difficult works in the piano literature, not only from a technical standpoint, but more importantly, because of its musical demands...