Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...salon is modeled after a room in a 15th century Italian palace. Carved cherubs adorn the ceiling. The walls are decorated with brocade and wood panels. A black Steinway grand piano sits next to tall windows overlooking Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Within this setting, Author Shere Hite is a slight, willowy figure, resembling nothing so much as a fey, reclusive maiden on leave from a Renaissance fair. It is an exquisitely crafted image, graceful, faintly otherworldly, eccentric. The $1.5 million, four-room duplex apartment is a monument to the success of her two earlier Hite Reports...
Literature & Arts B-59, "Piano Music of the19th Century: The Shorter Forms," finished astrong fifth in the ratings with 390 studentsenrolled...
...SECOND in-house selection was by Dunster's own composer-in-residence, Charles Kletzsch, whose enthusiasm and talent have long fired the house music program. It was titled 'Sonata for Piano No. 3, in F# Major', and was actually penned nearly 25 years...
...recital's final in-house work was 'Six Preludes', by James Romeo, Dunster's house music tutor. Romeo wrote these preludes as simpler pieces for his piano students at Harvard, but in their simplicity they display the composer's talent for the pleasingly lyrical. The first of the preludes uses the sustain pedal to allow harp-like tones to reverberate within the piano, creating a sort of water-color of sound reminiscent of Debussy...
Fuerzeig ended the program with a very jazzy taste of Gershwin, in honor of what would have been the composer's 89th birthday this week. These short selections, the 'Preludes for Piano' and 'I Got Rhythm', were played with the same technical confidence and attention to detail which marked the entire program...