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Those with a hankering to hear, say, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony or his Fourth Piano Concerto this summer not only could encounter these works at Ravinia, where Beethoven runs rampant, but could scarcely avoid them elsewhere: in upstate New York at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, played by the Philadelphia Orchestra (during its Beethoven festival); at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony's Berkshire retreat (during an all-Beethoven orchestral weekend); and at the Hollywood Bowl (during the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Beethoven festival). Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles are each playing Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra...
...hardier listeners seeking sustenance for both mind and ear. In California, the Cabrillo Music Festival, observing its 20th anniversary this year, will present world premieres by composers like Conlon Nancarrow, 69, an American expatriate who has lived in Mexico City since 1940 and who writes his music for player piano. On the programs of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, works by living composers like John Harbison, Richard Wernick and Yehudi Wyner coexist peacefully with those of Haydn and Smetana. And for devotees who must have their daily dose of Beethoven, the Minnesota Orchestra is staging an imaginative Sommerfest lasting...
...Halka) and Shostakovich, who was of Polish descent. That program, however, was performed by the visiting Warsaw Philharmonic. At Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony has responsibly programmed two new works it commissioned for its centennial last year. And at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Orchestra performed a piano concerto believed to have been written by Franz Liszt, and orchestrated by Tchaikovsky...
...mother had twelve sisters or so and my father had four or five brothers, and almost all of them played music. My aunts and uncles would always come by and we'd just sit down and jam. At four or five I could play a boogie on the piano...
...show up at work some nights during the '50s wearing a tux and tails with a turtleneck shirt and an Army fatigue cap with a watchband on it. He'd wear white gloves and have a big plate of food like chicken or crayfish put on the piano. While the band warmed up he'd be right on stage, eating. When he was ready to play he'd take off his white gloves, which were all soiled with grease, and make people laugh and have a good time. He was maybe a bigger hero...