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Danny allows himself to be seduced by one of his students in the front seat of her father's Cadillac. Nor does he resist other Western pleasures: an infinity of ice cubes, catsup with French fries and Erroll Garner's piano, the good life, as he sees...
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Violinist Gidon Kremer, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner, conductor; Philips). Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Pianist Ivo Pogorelich, Chicago Symphony, Claudio Abbado, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). These concertos, featuring two electrifying performers, are of unusual interest. Pogorelich has technique and temperament in equal measure; right from the piano's cascading entry, this is hot-blooded, Russian-style Chopin, more than a continent removed from the genteel salons of 19th century Paris. The Kremer-Marriner partnership in the Beethoven results in an elegant performance deliberately at odds with the customarily virtuosic way of viewing...
Dunster House resident Alice Y. Kiang '86 died after a long illness. An Applied Math concentrator who played piano in the Harvard Ensemble Society. Kiang suffered from a rare blood disease that attacked her immune system...
...year that inspired him, but he stresses that he has not taken the conventional approach. "I wasn't so interested in the music department in general--it seemed to require a lot of things I didn't want to study." Although he is an accomplished clarinetist and has studied piano since coming to college, Rothenberg does not consider himself primarily a classically trained musician. He feels he has not had much of the basic standard instruction in performance and music theory, and downplays his proficiency. Rather, he emphasizes the other facets of music he has pursued: jazz, improvisation and composition...
Rothenberg is notorious for his unconventional style. As a freshman, he got into serious trouble for moving a piano in the Union for a performance. And last summer, while working for Let's Go in Scandinavia, he was arrested in Denmark for tampering with his Eurail Pass in order to use it for an extra month. He spent a day in jail and was threated with deportation, but somehow worked his way out of it. While researching in Finland, he received media fame for participating in a music workshop given by John Cage, one of the foremost innovative contemporary composers...