Word: piano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Komm, Jesu, komm" was especially impressive. This motet calls for a double chorus, which was composed of those same 26 singers, who nonetheless filled Sanders with sound. In "Komm, Jesu" the contrast between full choral forte and delicate choral piano was most effective; Collins and the chorus surpassed all that they had done previously. The instrumental ensemble (strings, oboes, and harpsichord), which did not seem to be technically quite up to the level of the chorus and soloists, also came into its own and played its best in this piece...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A peek into the on-and off-stage life of Concert Pianist Robert Casadesus, his wife Gaby and their eldest son Jean, in "Casadesus: First Family of the Piano...
...DELIUS: PIANO CONCERTO (Decca). As a young man, Delius weny out from England to spend a year managing his father's plantation in Florida, and snatches of Negro spirituals seem to echo in the dreamy sequences of his only piano concerto. Playing with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra under William Strickland, Marjorie Mitchell gives a full-blooded performance of the seldom-heard romantic work...
Tame Lion. Offstage, no project or gimmick was too daring, too dangerous or too absurd for her. She took up sculpture and painting, the piano and writing, pistol shooting and fishing, ballooning and alligator hunting. She went down into a Pennsylvania coal mine, kept a tame lion in her house, and-though she claimed vehemently that she opposed capital punishment-attended a hanging in London, a garroting in Madrid and two beheadings in France. "If there's anything more remarkable than watching Sarah act," observed one admirer, "it's watching her live...
...retired to Aberdeen, her birthplace, and after giving away her piano and her collection of scores, never sang again, "not even to myself." She spent her last years as a kind of talent scout, holding auditions in her studio, admonishing young hopefuls to "stop studying and start singing." Though she helped the careers of dozens of singers, including Soprano Grace Moore, she sadly remarked a few years ago that she "had not found another Mary Garden." Nor has anyone else...