Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vosgerchian makes an effort to get to know all her students personally, even in her large lectures. She says she knew every one of the 185 students in her fall semester 19th century piano music course. But sometimes getting close to students can produce out-of-classroom benefits...
Glass learned to play the piano by listening to his older brother and sister taking their lessons and imitating them. The son of a Baltimore record store owner, he began studying the flute at the age of eight at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Precocious academically as well as musically, Glass entered the University of Chicago at 15 and graduated with a degree in mathematics and philosophy. He studied music too, working his way through the Beethoven quartets and teaching himself the twelve-tone system...
...flute line from the second scene into Gandhi's eloquent apostrophe to freedom at the end, Glass created one of the most powerful moments in modern opera. The melody is simplicity itself -- a scale consisting of the tones from E to E on the white notes of a piano, repeated 36 times -- but the purity of its calm resolve has the effect of an emotional tidal wave...
...STUFF. My father made everyone in our family take a musical instrument and go to lessons every day. I took piano lessons but I hated them. Finally, I convinced my father to let me take dance lessons at one of those schools where you get ballet, jazz, tap and baton twirling. Anyway, the dance school was really like a place for hyperactive young girls. I was pretty rambunctious...
...Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 13 in C Major, K. 415, and 15 in B-Flat Major, K. 450. Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, with John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists; Archiv. Having started with the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the original-instruments movement has now worked its way through the baroque to classicism and early romanticism in an effort to discover what the music of these eras sounded like to the people of the time. Bilson is a leading exponent of the fortepiano, the gentler forerunner of the modern piano; together with Conductor Gardiner, he makes...