Word: piano
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GARY GRAFFMAN: PROKOFIEV PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 1 AND 3 (Columbia). Some performers create, some dominate, some execute and others merely recite. Gary Graffman executes, and Prokofiev is his perfect victim. Dazzling fireworks abound in this recording of two percussive concertos, and connoisseurs of pyrotechnics will find nothing missing in Graffman's display; others may hunger for heart in this admittedly impressive recording...
...Last week the Ballet Theater showed off Jerome Robbins' dazzling choreography for it in a vigorous, soulful ensemble tour de force. The Americans also drew 17 curtain calls when they unveiled Eliot Feld's Harbinger, a lively and neatly dovetailed abstraction set to Prokofiev's Fifth Piano Concerto. It was a week of delightful dilemmas for the audiences, but nobody had more fun with it than the dancers themselves...
Expansion plans also include a new study carrels, piano practice rooms, and listening rooms. Paine Hall will be soundproofed, Pirrotta said, since it is often impossible to hold classes in adjacent rooms...
Marty slumps on the back of the platform. Grace sets a fresh stick of incense on the electric piano's music stand. The other three players tune and warm...
...Syracuse concert-in which the two pianos were tuned a quarter tone apart-was a repeat of a program put on by the Contemporary Music Society at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, where it was such a success that Columbia Records decided to record it. Three young New York composers-Teo Macero, Calvin Hampton and Donald Lybbert-wrote new scores for the occasion in which colliding lines sometimes sent out strangely affecting shivers of dissonance. But the most musical mo- ments were heard in three piano pieces by the late eccentric genius of 20th century American music, Charles Ives...