Word: piano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...program was ambitious, a no-compromise mixture of the new, the old and the damnably difficult. In Schoenberg's slow, brooding Five Piano Pieces, he stretched and examined each phrase with all the intense care and concentration of a surgeon. In Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, an awesome challenge to pianists twice his age, he impetuously jiggered tempos and juggled rhythms without catching the full depth and breadth of the music. In Mozart's Sonata in F Major, he was all lucidity and logic, rippling through the trickiest passages with an almost playful ease. His interpretations were introspective...
Recordings, of course, are something else. Peter has already produced Bach's Goldberg Variations, Schubert's Sonata in G and Bartok's first and third piano concertos for RCA Victor. Beginning this fall, he plans to give up concertizing altogether for at least a year so that he can devote more time to recording and study. Says his father: "Peter is developing by himself-certainly intellectually. I have no fears for his future. He has guts...
...Victor). "Popular" refers not only to the Duke but in this instance to these compositions that will forever be the background music of the '20s, '30s and '40s-classics like Sophisticated Lady, Solitude, I Got It Bad and Take the "A" Train. The Duke's piano is smoothly articulate and the new performances by his virtuoso orchestra are moody and melting...
...came to his own band from Ray Charles's, specializes in the blues, but he goes after them so vigorously that he turns them into outbursts of affirmation. His instrument for these determined attacks is usually the alto sax, although he can also operate very effectively with the piano. Half the pieces are his own, but most of the others, like Lonely Avenue, also burst with swinging good spirits...