Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Murphy, baritone; Donald Gramm and Robert Oliver, basses; Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia). A brightly performed addition to the growing collection of Stravinsky's works conducted by the composer himself. At Stravinsky's own request, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Roger Sessions play the piano parts in Les Noces, and in this and the other works Stravinsky shapes performances of water clarity and rhythmic fire. Ragtime is the album's special treat...
...service that would make the average Southern Baptist feel uncomfortably High Church. Loud Bible readings and spontaneous testimonials are part of every service, punctuated by shouts of "Aleluya" and "Gracias a Dios." The hymns swell over a rhythmic clapping, generally accompanied by a guitar, drums, tambourines, a bass fiddle, piano or small combo...
...maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews) who has a Ponce de Leon complex. From 1 a.m. to dawn, these characters soliloquize, harmonize (around a stage-center piano), and bend the playgoer's ear without touching his heart or prickling his nerves. They all seem to be high on bootleg rhetoric ("You drink a cup of sunlight, you're immortal...
...Fort Worth Piano Teachers' Forum devoted four years of hard work, and hundreds of Fort Worth citizens spent time and money, to put on this international competition and provide this splendid start for a new concert pianist...
...recipient of all these honors had just won the first Van Cliburn International Piano competition, and with it the largest cash prize-$10,000-ever given a performing artist in the U.S. Votapek, a pupil of Cliburn's teacher Rosina Lhevinne, had to beat out 45 contestants from 16 nations, including two fine Soviet pianists who finished second and third. A softspoken, shy young man, he played the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto and the first movement of the Beethoven Fourth, singing his way into their reflective passages and kindling fire from their climaxes with an ease and fluidity that...