Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual with the HRO, the second half of the performance was much better than the first. Ursula Oppens is really incredible. Despite an orchestra accompaniment that--well, about which it is perhaps kindest to say nothing--she made the performance of Brahm's first piano concerto a singularly exciting experience. She managed the big octave crescendos in the first movement without any of the woodenness of tone that frequently accompanies dynamics of that magnitude. She handled the rapid accompanying passages with facility and grace. She may have flubbed a few chords, but her communication of the pounding rhythms and building...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra performs at 8:30 tonight in Sanders Theatre. The program will consist of Vivaldi's "Concerto for Flute and Strings," Karen Monson, soloist; Webern's "Symphony Opus 21," William Conable, guest conductor; Brahm's "Piano Concerto #1," Ursula Oppens...
RUBBER SOUL (Capitol). Ringo playing an organ? George plunking a sitar? Paul crooning in French? George Martin rattling off baroque piano riffs? The Beatles are becoming more sophisticated as they concentrate on soul music, and their eleventh album is selling even better than the other...
...Athenee Palace Hotel, violins sob Wien, Wien, Nur Du Allein with a sentimentality unmatched since Grand Hotel. More than 300,000 Westerners made Hungary their destination; there they dined on goose liver sautéed in butter at Gundel's, or listened to an Eddy Duchin-like piano at the Pipacs (pronounced Peapatch) nightclub, whose pianist resembles Peter Lorre. Some 620,000 swarmed into Czechoslovakia, to shop the ancient guild houses of Prague, one of the few cities in Europe untouched by the war, or listen to ragtime at such clubs as the Viola...
...surface of the film, they interfere with each other in strange patterns of bright and dark areas that are recorded on the film. "In the hologram," says Electrical Engineer Stroke, "the light waves are stored in a manner similar to the way a musical tone is stored in a piano string. It is there, but it is not released until the string is plucked...