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...spare time, Peterson says he enjoys surfing on the Internate and playing the piano, but he says his two small children, ages one and three, keep him active enough...
Though the publication of Nietzsche's complete scores in 1976 brought his music to the attention of scholars, two fine CDs from Newport Classic should introduce it to a wider audience. In Piano Music of Friedrich Nietzsche, John Bell Young plays 14 solo works and is joined by Constance Keene in two pieces for four hands. In The Music of Friedrich Nietzsche, Young is again the pianist, joined at times by violin and a second piano, as well as by the excellent lyric tenor John Aler for 16 songs...
Most of the works for solo piano are brief (between one and two minutes), and were composed in 1862, when Nietzsche was only 17. His lack of formal training shows, but the pieces require no apology and display a true melodic gift, reminiscent of Schubert and Schumann. Paradoxically, this heroic visionary was most at home in such small-scale works; his more ambitious pieces for two pianos (written in 1871 and '73) owe much in vocabulary and gesture to Liszt and Wagner. But the seams show, and the intended grandeur is painfully strained. On the other hand, a charming violin...
Boston Conservatory. 536-6340 or 536-3063. The Boston Conservatory Theater is lacated at 31 Hemenway Street, Boston. Seully Hall is located at 8 The Fenway, Boston. The First and Second Church is located at 66 Marlborough St., Boston. Patricia McCarty, viola, and Martin Amlin, piano, perform works by Carter, Liebermann, George Wilson and Boston compsoers Martin Amlin and Karen Campbell. Thursday, April 20, Boston Conservatory Theatre Concert Room, 8 p.m. Free...
...first week at the lab, it turned out that a longtime post-doctoral fellow was leaving. We had the obligatory dinner in Chinatown and then made our way to a local piano bar. Not just any piano bar, mind you, but the one that advertised on almost every bus station bench in the city--two duelling pianos, four painists, "Great Balls of Fire" and the like. High publicity equals high security, I thought as I began to sweat...