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...Shostakovich’s “Piano Trio N.2 in E Minor.”Gutman writes in a translated e-mail that in her Harvard recital she wants to “show and compare the Romanticism of Russian composer Arensky, pupil of Tchaikovsky, who is not well known and rarely performed, with the Romanticism of the well-known German composer Brahms.” “Shostakovich is one of my favorite composers to perform,” she writes, calling Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 “one of his most remarkable...
...said he was “shocked at the level of defensiveness” in the remarks of Walser and others, and called the defensiveness “indicative of the lack of confidence in our school system.” Although Cambridge spends around $6,000 more per pupil than most Massachusetts school systems, its public schools have recently experienced mixed success. In 2003, an accreditation group placed Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, the city’s only public high school, on probation, though it lifted that status earlier this year. —BRENDAN R. LINN
Although a reluctant pupil to fame, Murakami never sounds resentful of—merely surprised by—the attention he receives...
...didn’t forge friendships any more easily than he lured ladies. In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna to study under the aging composer Joseph Haydn in an all-star match-up of historical heavyweights akin to Alexander and Aristotle, or Rocky and Tommy Gunn. The teacher and pupil never clicked though, and Beethoven was soon free to pursue his own devices. His skills were a key to the world of the privileged, and he picked up many friends among the aristocracy. By the age of 25, he had performed before the king of Prussia...
...began his apprenticeship with a painter of religious scenes and former pupil of Titian, in Milan. Why did he choose art? Why did he abruptly leave Milan for Rome in 1592, in what would be the first episode of a long series of abrupt departures? Little is known of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, for he did not like to write; he did not even draw, or sketch. Or, if he did, he destroyed all traces, as if he had been afraid of someone following him, trying to figure...