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Author Toklas, who is now 85, and still living in Paris, grew up in "necessary luxury" in a wealthy Jewish family in San Francisco. She dabbled in the arts, and for a time considered a career as a concert pianist. But in her late 205, she met Michael Stein, older brother of Gertrude, and swiftly learned from him about cultural activity in Paris; she sailed for France in 1907. Within a few days of her arrival in Paris she met Gertrude and knew immediately that she was in the presence of a genius...
...Monday night Ursula Oppens '65 and Geoffrey T. Hellman '65 will take part in a demonstration class taught by pianist Leonard Shure. Afterwards, Shure, who has performed with major orchestras including the Boston Symphony, will play Beethoven's Sonata Opus...
Only now and then, as Pianist Louis Kentner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed the Scherzo's British premiere last week, could Bartok fans find hints of the more familiar dissonances and pounding rhythms of the composer's later career. This was vintage stuff, dating back to Bartok's early romantic period. And after a long orchestral introduction, Kentner opened a floodgate of lush, big-fisted chords...
...death, in 1945, the Scherzo was found among his papers by his son Bela in Budapest. Today, like all of Bartok's music, it is embroiled in a discordant legal hassle between his heirs and the Manhattan lawyer who is executor of the estate and who has given Pianist Kentner exclusive performance rights to the Scherzo for the next two years...
...modern music. Said Colin Mason of the Guardian: "Although it is not likely ever to find a place in the repertory, we should hear it a few more times yet to savor its humor and originality before putting it on the shelf as an immature work." As for Pianist Kentner, he thinks the Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra is uneven, but, says: "The best part is certainly the last part, where we get to something like the real Bartok...