Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned out to hear some Britten music played by the composer himself. As accompanist for English Tenor Peter Pears, who created the leading roles in all of Britten's major operas, "Benjy" proved himself as astute on the platform at the piano as he is in his parlor with a pen. When the nicely varied and nicely performed program of original Brittens, Britten-arranged Purcell and English folk songs was over, the welcoming audience showed its appreciation...
...little worried too about the conducting he would have to do in California next month. At the University of Southern California he will lead a performance of his cantata St. Nicolas for tenor, mixed voices, string orchestra, piano and percussion, and preside over a production of his opera Albert Herring. Although he has conducted some performances of his English Opera Group in the last two years, he still feels uneasy with a baton. "I never seem to know whether to move my arms to the right or left, or up or down . . ." But he was happy about going west...
...occasions it could be heard all so much. During the rondo movement of the Sonata G minor and the last movement of the Sonata in A major it went distinctly flat. The general impression created was that Mr. Brown was nowhere near up to the technical standards that the piano was setting. He played too quietly and lacked the precise timing necessary in the fast movements...
Beethoven write very few sonatas for the piano and cello, probably because it is so difficult to coordinate the widely varying sounds of these instruments. But the sonatas nevertheless did succeed in mastering the difficulties of composition imposed by the two instruments...
...great difficulty with the actual performance of these works was that the men frequently destroyed this masterly. Beethoven made the cello part the more important occasionally, made the two parts equal the rest of the time, and almost never put the piano into prominence. Unfortunately, Wednesday night the cello part was only occasionally equal to that of the piano and frequently less prominent...