Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra is celebrating Seiji Ozawa's 25th anniversary this year, opening its season with Petrassi's Concerto for Orchestra No. 5, SaintSaens Piano Concerto No. 2 and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3. First Nights' matriculators will enjoy an upscale evening which calls for discriminating musical analysis. Pricey but classy, a romantic evening accompanied by the strains of the BSO is a surefire way to impress a dating prospect. 8 p.m., Symphony Hall, 301 Mass...
...promptly left all the mops in our suite, assuring us he'd return them the following day. The next morning, at 7 a.m., we received a phone call from an irate dorm crew captain. "Return the stuff or he's fired," she said. Since my roommate was practicing the piano in Paine Hall (more on that in a minute), I had to trudge over to Weld--through the snow--to return the mops...
Hamelin is a throwback to golden age piano virtuosos--wizards like Ignaz Friedman, Josef Hofmann and Leopold Godowsky--whose keyboard pyrotechnics lit up concert halls during the first 40 years of this century. He is fascinated by the piano's expressive range, its ability to produce almost orchestral varieties of sounds and colors, seemingly bound only by the performer's own limitations. These varied works--by Rachmaninoff, Alkan, Busoni, Godowsky and others--are wickedly difficult, yet Hamelin plays them, often at dazzling speeds, with color, power, a long line and unfailing elan. He also performs three of his own witty...
...acknowledgement of the individual, in fact, was an important motif throughout the talk. As Piano noted, much of architecture lies in the invisible, in the memories and social life generated by the use of the space. What one sees--the physical architecture--is merely the tip of the iceberg. He expanded on this idea of "immateriality" in the last half-hour of the speech, presenting slides of his other works. Piano's work has consistently stressed the importance of space and transparency, or, as he put it, "lightness". The glass of Kansai Airport seems to show the open possibilities that...
...Meier's Los Angeles Getty Musuem, Frank Gehry's Bilboa Guggenheim--these are the seats of present-day architectural spectacle and wonder. This year's winner of the Pritzker Prize (architecture's highest award) demonstrated his own ability to generate that sense of wonder. It was, indeed, a grand Piano performance...