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...onetime avant-garde pianist who has been performing for many years. Among other new works, I introduced Bartók's Second Piano Concerto in New York City as early as 1947.1 always felt I was one step ahead of my time. Yet, I was horrified to read your glowing account of Maestro Pierre Boulez's newest "creation" that was recently performed in France [Dec. 28]. Repons is certainly not the answer to this listener's prayer. Compositions made with the aid of a computer negate everything that music stands for. Andor Foldes Herrliberg, Switzerland
...catching the public's ear in 1931 with his first hit, Star Dust. The more than 50 standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening. He also played a laconic, streetwise piano player in a handful of movies, including To Have and Have Not and Young Man with a Horn...
...from "Running," and the guitarist's name follows the tradition of the Police's Sting. Their respective riffs and even bass line give away U2's origins, nowhere else but New Wave. Yet, the drums Larry beats so maniacally in "I threw a brick" echo, and Adam Clayton's piano filters through indistinctly in the "October" intro. These effects make the music fuller and subtler than the whinings of New Wave groups, striving for a minimal instrumental texture...
...TIME from the San Francisco Examiner, where he was music critic for 3½ years and won a 1980 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music criticism. A 1971 graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., where he studied composition and musicology, Walsh has written a piano sonata and a string quartet. Says he: "Only someone who has gone through the agony of putting notes on paper to form a coherent musical structure can know what a tremendous achievement a good piece of music is." He is also an accomplished pianist. In the mid-1970s he gave...
...comparison of the trio--which, unfortunately for Lenin, was published in 1908--with the Tchaikovsky piano concertos and piano trio will reveal striking similarities in form and style...