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...months of the year, will give more than 100 concerts this year alone. Although he is a superb performer of the German-Austrian repertoire, he is also a first-rate player of the moderns, for whom he changes the height of his adjustable piano bench-two inches higher for Prokofiev than for Beethoven-because he believes a high bench helps him produce some of the percussive effects of modern music. Little is left to chance. Everywhere he goes on tour, Browning carries a small black book-its pages crammed with the serial numbers of melodious pianos located in the towns...
...test of time. Paris-born Maestro Pierre Monteux, 86, flatly replied: ''I don't see any, except perhaps Stravinsky." In a tart catalogue of inadequacies, the peppery new conductor of the London Symphony went on: "Mahler, he won't live; he's an imitator. Prokofiev, I don't think so. Shostakovich, no. Hindemith, no inspiration. Bartok: I give him ten years...
...past year, Cliburn has crisscrossed the U.S., visited Mexico and made his second triumphant tour of Russia, rarely playing to anything but sellouts. Cliburn is something of a prisoner of his success: a man whose temperament and talent favors the romantic, he has recorded Schumann. MacDowell, Prokofiev and Beethoven. But his audiences often demand Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. What he clearly needs to do now is learn the trick-invaluable to any artist-of occasionally saying no to the fans...
...Common Room this Saturday from 3-5 p.m. will be Moussorgsky's A Night on Bare Mountain and Khovanshhina (selections); Borodin's Quartet no. 2 in D major and In the Steppes of Central Asia; Rimsky-Korakov's Russina Easter Overture; Gliere's Red Poppy and Russian Sailors' Dance, Prokofiev's Symphony no. 6, Opus 111; and Pakhmutova's Concerto for trumpet in E flat minor...
Along with Anderson, the general run of "contemporary" (post-1900) composers come off remarkably well in the B.M.I. survey; they wrote almost two-thirds of the works played by U.S. orchestras last season. Serge Prokofiev was the most-played contemporary, and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite was the most-played contemporary composition. But that still left Serge, Igor and Leroy Anderson several long leagues behind the perennial alltime favorite: Ludwig van Beethoven. Music lovers could take some comfort from the fact that last season Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto was played just 40.3 times as often as Anderson...