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Having refined the French for the past eight years as Charles de Gaulle's Minister of Cultural Affairs, Andre Malraux is now exporting-in the very domestic form of his wife, Madeleine Malraux. A onetime concert pianist who has been playing only for friends since her husband entered government in 1945, Mme. Malraux will give a concert of 17th and 20th century French compositions next month at the University of Texas...
...Pianist Peter Serkin, musical nirvana is being scrooched up in a recording studio retaping and re-retaping portions of some concerto. Like Glenn Gould, Serkin, 19, is one of the new strain of virtuosos who play beautiful music but in few other ways resemble the traditional concert soloist. He is totally indifferent to audiences, abhors the personality cult, is convinced that performers get in the way of the music, and that the only way to play is in the quiet privacy of the recording studio, where perfection is the only reality. "Listening to music," he says, "should be the most...
...Peter is Pianist Rudolf Serkin's son, but he is out to make it on his own. Since he likes to eat, he does force himself to play a public concert now and then. His recent recital at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall was, typically, a study in reluctance. Even his posture seemed vaguely discontented. Creeping up on the piano keyboard, he curled his bulky 6-ft. 1-in. frame into a question mark, repeatedly dipped his head as if he were literally going to play the music...
...psych has long been essential in the volatile world of music. In this month's High Fidelity Magazine, for example, Pianist Claudio Arrau tells how analysis helped his playing by "clearing my personal psychic jungle," and contends that no musician is ready to stand on his own until he has first stretched out on the analyst's couch and found "selfhood in harmony with the cosmos...
...documentary. Actually, it is one long point of disorder-a poorly edited mélange of Lane's interviews with men and women peripherally involved in the events of the four black days in Dallas. One such witness, for example, is Joseph W. Johnstone Jr., a pianist at Jack Ruby's nightclub...