Word: rachmaninoff
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Like most teenagers, Kissin is a romantic at heart, though his still rather narrow repertoire includes Mozart and Haydn as well as Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. In Amsterdam last year he was scheduled to play the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1, even though the piece had by then become boring for him. The day before the performance brought the news that Andrei Sakharov had died. "That changed everything completely," he says. "I used to play the final movement with a lighthearted though sarcastic mood. After the news, it felt as though I had not performed the concerto in 10 years...
...anywhere in the West. In Cluj, the capital of the medieval kingdom of Transylvania in Romania, three decades of Ceausescu misrule have emptied shops and condemned people to a dreary life in ill-lighted, poorly heated apartments. But the Ceausescu era did not kill the arts. At a recent Rachmaninoff concert performed by the Cluj Philharmonic Orchestra, the pianist was superb. Cost: less than...
Gershwin is not the only performer whose works could be computerized. Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Debussy also recorded piano rolls. But it was such keyboard acrobats as Gershwin and Zez Confrey, playing in the florid "novelty" style developed to boost player-piano sales, who were the stars of their day. Says Wodehouse: "This will open up an era of music that has been largely forgotten...
Most likely to bring Elvis back to life. With revolutionary speed, music lovers are replacing their favorite old scratched-up 45s and 33s with shiny compact discs. The complete works of almost all major artists, from Rachmaninoff to the Rolling Stones, are being released in the new format. At up to $18 a pop, CDs are costly, but the tones they produce are astonishingly crisp and clear. Pressed between CDs and cassette tapes, the venerable vinyl long-playing record is being relegated to memory lane...
Late at night a college radio station discourses brilliantly on Rachmaninoff's piano technique. Whole regions, with accents and traditions and communities of their own, come in over the air, echoes of reality in the netherworld...