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Liszt: Concerto No. 1, Les Preludes (New York Philharmonic. Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Andre Watts, pianist; Columbia) confirms the astonishing first impression that 16-year-old Pianist Watts made in his New York debut in January. Watts and Bernstein are in rapport in a fluent and subtle performance...
...CLAUDIO ABBADO. 29. from Milan, had by far the most flair. He stood with feet planted as on a rolling deck, and with great sweeps of the arms drew a rich and textured sound from the orchestra. A pianist. Abbado had none of the usual percussive tastes of the pianistic conductor: instead, he even trusted the beaters and blowers in the orchestra to come in without cues while he painted tones in the violin section. Abbado studied at the Mozarteum and the Vienna Academy of Music, and in 1958 he won the Koussevitzky Prize for conductors at Tanglewood...
...Charles is the popularizer of soul jazz, the intellectual leaders of the movement is Horace Silver, a slight, 35-year-old pianist and composer from (of all places) Norwalk, Conn. Silver, came to New York with Stan Getz in 1950, played with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for a few years, and finally formed his own quintet...
Died. Alec Templeton, 52. blind Welsh-born concert pianist whose dry sense of humor led him to improvise satires of the old masters (he once fooled London critics into praising his hoked-up version of It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as an unknown work of Mozart), after which he traveled to the U.S. in 1935, where he was such a hit that he stayed to become a citizen in 1941 and the radio idol of 6,000,000 weekly listeners in the days when Jack Benny and the late Fred Allen provided the competition; of cancer...
Equally interesting musically was the trio of pianist Pete Loeb. Loeb, who operates on the frontiers of, jazz, sounds a little like Thelonius Monk but is really his own man. He attacks a tune from all sides, alternating carefully spaced dissonances with tantalizing, full-handed chords. His bassist, John Voigt, provided a beautiful, sustained solo on Misty...