Word: rachmaninoff
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...still shares with his mother and first teacher, Rildia Bee Cliburn, now 97. He re-emerged in 1987 for a few tantalizing concerto performances. Now, at 60, Cliburn has embarked on his first national tour in 16 years with a program featuring two piano concertos, Tchaikovsky's First and Rachmaninoff's Third, as well as an orchestral performance of Copland's Lincoln Portrait with himself as narrator. He is accompanied by the Moscow Philharmonic...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. 266-1492. Perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 on Thursday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m.; Friday, Nov. 19 at 1:30 p.m.; and Saturday, Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. Performs Hadyn's Symphony No. 92 and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Symphony No. 28 on Wednesday...
...colleagues, Chris Porterfield is an editor whose specialty is everything. Our music writers know him as a lapidary of words whose subtle touch gives luster to subjects as diverse as Rachmaninoff and rap. ("He polishes each sentence so it shines in such a way that you say, 'Yes! That's what I meant to say,' " says Janice Simpson, our New York bureau chief.) Our art critics think of Chris as a paradigm of catholic sensibilities to whom no work of merit, from this century or any other, is unfamiliar. ("Scrupulous. Sympathetic. Measured," says Robert Hughes, whom Porterfield persuaded to come...
...busy concert schedule, an $80,000-a-year teaching job at the State University of New York at New Paltz and a recording contract with Sony Classical. The recording contract, however, turned out to be a Faustian bargain: the pianist was expected to concentrate on the powerhouse Russian composers -- Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev -- rather than the Germans who were closer to his soul. Feltsman's constant chafing at the Russian fare, compounded by disappointing record sales, led Sony to drop his contract after two years...
...RACHMANINOFF, 24 PRELUDES (Arabesque Recordings). Though usually performed in small groupings or as encores, these two dozen pieces -- covering each of the major and minor keys -- become sovereign microworlds in the hands of piano virtuoso Ian Hobson...