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Lucy Shelton, soprano and David Abramovitz, planist; songs of Schoenberg, Messiaen, Britten, and Rachmaninoff; Currier SCR; 8:30 p.m.; free...
Mark Holland '71, planist, in recital. Works of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Liszt. Free. Thursday...
Vivan Taylor, pianist, in recital. Works of Schoenberg, Ives, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Liszt. Free. Saturday, April...
...recording by the Philadelphia Orchestra is available with Pines of Rome on RCA #ALL 1-0415.) To capitalist ears the piece sounds vaguely stirring and faintly romantic. A Washington Post critic suggested that "from the sound of it...the principal members of the committee were Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff, with some help from Edvard Grieg...
When the Philadelphia Orchestra finished playing The Yellow River Concerto in Peking last September, Conductor Eugene Ormandy signaled for the composer to share the bows. Out came two men and two women. To a Westerner listening to the work, the four might just as well have been Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Cécile Chaminade and Joan Baez. Actually, they were a committee from the Central Philharmonic Society of the People's Republic of China, perhaps the country's foremost composer. The event was the highlight of the Philadelphia's tour of China, the first such by an American...