Word: piano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BYRON JAN IS: RACHMANINOFF'S CONCERTO NO. 2 and TCHAIKOVSKY'S CONCERTO NO. 1 (Mercury). With a matinee idol's face and a technique that suggests a man breathing on filaments of silk rather than pounding a piano, Janis stands up to his Billboard ratings with these favorites. His gift for phrasing is remarkable and very much his own, and Antal Dorati and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra balance his sweetness with spirited orchestral reading...
Pianist Dichter-who was born in Shanghai midway in his parents' flight from Poland in 1945-also turned on Tanglewood's audiences. He played the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, a risky selection for any young pianist ever since Van Cliburn's powerful, sweeping version of it carried him to victory in the 1958 Moscow competition. But Dichter made the concerto his own, giving it unusual clarity and lightness...
...music teachers and musicians who had come to learn about the revolutionary teaching techniques he has forged for 108 elementary schools in Hungary. Based chiefly on the pentatonic scale that is so prevalent in folk music (for example, the notes sounded by the five black keys on the piano), Kodály's method uses games and pictures to introduce painlessly the basic concepts of musical structure and notation. The result is that thousands of students learn to read com plex scores as easily as a column of figures by the time they reach the eighth grade. Best...
...controlled fire of Lateiner's playing is notable in someone who flared brilliantly at first, then threatened to become a burnt-out case. He was born in Havana of musical Polish-immigrant parents, won a piano scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, then at 18 went to New York in search of "a room some place where I could develop pianistically the way I felt I wanted to." Instead, almost in spite of himself, he appeared as a soloist with the Boston and NBC symphonies, astonished the New York critics with a masterly debut recital at Carnegie Hall...
Michael Tschudin wrote the un-Alban-Bergian but thoroughly appropriate score. He played it on piano and organ, accompanied by a beautiful blonde flute player from Juilliard reputed to be his girlfriend...