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Wednesday, August 15: 8 p.m. Theatre - Chamber Music Concert Nova Arte Trio with Graffman & Dwyer. Prokofiev: Flute Sonata, Op. 94 - Mozart: Divertimento K. 563 - Brahms: Piano Quartet...
Saturday, August 18: 10 a.m. Shed - BSO Open Rehearsal 8 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Eugene Ormandy - Prokofiev: Classical Symphony - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Istomin...
...opening concert of Janis' second Russian tour were both judges and contestants from the Tchaikovsky Competition, plus Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson. For the occasion, Janis attempted a staggering tour de force: three major concertos in a single concert. While rehearsing the Rachmaninoff First and the Schumann and Prokofiev Thirds with Conductor Kiril Kondrashin and the Moscow Philharmonic, Janis felt "like a race horse trying for the Triple Crown." Conductor Kondrashin was confident: "I have now heard a pianist who can play three utterly different concertos with a perfect sense of style -one of the greatest pianists of this...
Limp with exhaustion when he finally withdrew backstage, Janis was congratulated by Prokofiev's widow. Said Tchaikovsky Prizewinner Vladimir Ashkenazy: "I have never heard Prokofiev played so brilliantly." As for the fans waiting for autographs at the stage door, they seemed to be struck by Janis' remarkable resemblance to the young Chopin, and by the fact, as one of them put it, that "one can tell by his face that he suffers while he plays...
Although he is a masterly performer of Beethoven and Brahms. Stern, 41. is the only topflight violinist who regularly plays the modern masters-Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok, Berg. Each performance is a marriage of technique with the temper of the music. "I don't want to be known only as a violinist," Stern once said. "I want to be a player of music-one whose instrument just happens to be the violin." His ambition is snared by his peers...