Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JASCHA HEIFETZ grandly and brilliantly plays the third and biggest of Brahms's three romantic sonatas for violin and piano (reissued by RCA Victor). Such virtuosity would overshadow an ordinary pianist but not the late William Kapell, who with equal ease is first sensitive accompanist, then forceful protagonist. It was on his way to California to complete recording the Brahms triptych with Heifetz that the 31-year-old Kapell was killed in a plane crash twelve years...
...Luee" disagreed, and a year later he landed a job with the Press by offering to work for a week without pay. He moved up fast. By 17, he felt secure enough to marry Marion, whom he had discovered playing a piano in a silent-movie house (Marion, however, had to put up the 750 for a marriage license). By 19, Seltzer had become the paper's city editor...
Orin Grossman '67 of Dudley House and Cambridge, last night won the annual Concerto Contest with his recital of Beethoven's fourth piano concerto...
David Hathaway '67, the piano accompanist for one contestant, complained that these standards were too high. "The HRO is not a professional orchestra," he said, "and I resent their making such a condescending decision." Another Planist also complained that no practice room was provided. He added that the contestants had not been informed in advance of the manner in which the contest would be conducted. The same contestant felt that the contest should have been better advertised, so that the participants would "at least have had the experience of playing before an audience...
...Antiseptic Vaults. Lewis began his musical career pounding out the piano accompaniment for the choir of Chicago's Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, moved on to the Chicago Musical College, with aspirations of becoming a concert pianist. But he got married at 18 and quit college to take a job as a clerk in a record shop. Soon he shelved the classics to form a jazz trio with a pair of high school chums-Bassist Eldee Young and Drummer Isaac ("Red") Holt. For the next ten years, the trio roamed the outskirts of success as virtuosos of the expectable...