Word: piano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BARBARA (Philips). France's most popular new chanteuse has an intimate night-clubby voice that seems never to breathe. She plays her own piano, writes her own songs, including, on this LP, Göttingen, her greatest...
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JOHN CAGE: VARIATIONS IV (Everest). Composer Cage arranges a curious counterpoint to the playing of David Tudor by splicing a variety of noises into the staccato piano theme: the sound of traffic on the street outside, a patrician English girl chattering nervously, a chanteuse, a coloratura, a boy soprano, Florence Foster Jenkins murdering high D at the end of the Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute. Oddly but irresistibly, they add up to a cry from the heart...
...from being a grind, Daisy sings in a Lutheran church choir, takes lessons in both voice and piano. Her father, who died in 1964, was a composer, conductor and pianist. Her mother teaches piano, and her brother Walter topped his class at Columbia University in 1962. Mrs. Hilse says, not immodestly, that Daisy's scholarship "just comes naturally...
...period of 24 days, shuttling between Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem like a rush-hour commuter. Under Mehta's spirited attack, the orchestra's strings have bloomed into full brilliancy. Though staunchly rooted in the classics, the Israeli audiences received his reading of Bartok's First Piano Concerto, with Israeli Pianist Daniel Barenboim, as enthusiastically as they do their Brahms. Mehta was equally successful with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé Suites, a piece that, until a few years ago, the orchestra could barely manage, owing to a marked deficiency in the brass and woodwinds sections...