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Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. 266-1492. Performs Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, Foss' Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" on Friday, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. and Tuesday...
Longy School of Music. Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St., Cambridge. 876-0956, ext. 120. Master class with Nico Castel, tenor on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 1 p.m. Master class with Anton Kuerti, piano on Sunday...
Thoughts upon meeting Billy Joel last October: I had the terrible fear that I would somehow crush his hand and that he would never pay the piano again, not that I've ever crushed anyone's hands before...
Schedrin's lazy, impotent score is loutish when it is not downright sullen. The finale-in which the degenerate playwright Quilty scrambles around his mansion in a drugged stupor, stopping to pound out a few chords on his piano before Humbert Humbert (Per-Arne Wahlgren) shoots him-is a scene worthy of Shostakovich in his manic, trumpets-and-snare-drums mode, but all Schedrin can muster is forced-march noodlings. As for the vulgar libretto, Schedrin wrote it himself but neglected to secure rights from the Nabokov estate. The copyright problems were eventually sorted out with the stipulation that...
...lesser-known musical talents include singing and the ability to whistle one melodic line, hum another, and (sometimes) play a piano score at the same time.. a veritable one-man trio. "I didn't learn to whistle until about six years ago," he remembers. "Once I learned how to whistle to begin with, it wasn't that much harder [to hum at the same time]." Elkies explains that as a pianist, he was already accustomed to controlling several different musical lines at once...