Word: rachmaninoff
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...Rachmaninoff reputedly said of his Third Piano Concerto that he "wrote it for elephants." You may agree or disagree after hearing the Boston University Symphony Orchestra's performance Friday night at Symphony Hall, Boston. Joseph Silverstein conducts and Anthony di Bonaventura is at the keyboard for this work, which Rachmaninoff completed before his first American tour in 1909, and which Mahler conducted in New York. The concert, including other works, is at 8 p.m. Tickets are $2.50 and information...
Lydia Artymiw, pianist, plays Beethoven, Schumann, Ravel and Rachmaninoff. At Cabot Hall, South House...
Alexis Weissenberg and Boston Symphony play Rachmaninoff and Ravel in open rehearsal at Symphony Hall...
...interesting variety of nineteenth and twentieth century works is being offered this week in concerts in Cambridge and Boston. The invariable tendency to stress the classical and baroque workhorses gives way to an emphasis on Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Ravel and Beethoven. Concerts at Harvard this week also include Schumann, Debussy and plenty of Brahms...
Boston's Symphony Hall offers an outstanding opportunity for good music next Wednesday. The BSO is presenting open rehearsals for the twentieth consecutive year, and the second of the season is February 22 at 7:30. Pianist Alexis Weissenberg performs Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Seiji Ozawa conducting; also on the program are Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales and his La Valse. This rehearsal promises to be exciting and enjoyable, and it should not be missed. Weissenberg is one of the premier technicians and artists of the day and Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto one of the most...