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Producer Michael Cuscuna tried to include only tunes "where Nat is on piano, the trio style is evident and hopefully there is some jazz content." Even such a flexible standard becomes a little restrictive by the early '50s, < when Cole turned more and more toward often wonderfully arranged orchestrations by Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Pete Rugolo and others. One of the Mosaic set's standout cuts is Cole's benchmark version, arranged by Rugolo, of Billy Strayhorn's great ballad of fantasy, loneliness and longing, Lush Life. There is also Nature Boy -- no getting away from that -- and such toothsome...
Boston Symphony Orchestra--with conductor Seiji Ozawa and pianist Maria Tipo performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467 and Strauss's "An Alpine Symphony." in Boston's Symphony Hall. Thursday, Dec. 12 at 10:30 a.m. (open rehearsal) and 8 p.m. and Friday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. For tickets and ticket information call Symphony Charge...
RACHMANINOFF, 24 PRELUDES (Arabesque Recordings). Though usually performed in small groupings or as encores, these two dozen pieces -- covering each of the major and minor keys -- become sovereign microworlds in the hands of piano virtuoso Ian Hobson...
Music, sound and lighting effects add significantly to the desperation of Hamlet's world. Claire van Kampen's score of trumpets, strings, percussion and piano-coordinated with sounds of wind, sea and rain-compliments the mood of accompanying scenes. The thundering chords, lighting and unearthly chanting of "Sanctus Spiritus" heighten the horror of the Ghost scenes. Strains of piano and strings underlying loving scenes between Claudius and Gertrude and later among Laertes, Ophelia and Polonius reveal the fragility of those moments...
Professor of Geology Raymond Siever, who teaches Science A-37, "The Changing Surface of the Earth," says he plays an hour or two of piano before coming to work every...