Word: raveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubts: "I was worried because a strange conductor always has more pull with the orchestra, and I was just the boy next door they'd known for years." But Lennie and the orchestra hit it off. With programs of Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven, larded with easily digestible Ravel and Gershwin and spiced with occasional contemporary works, the tour was a hit from the start...
Richter is most at home with Liszt and Schubert, also plays Debussy and Ravel occasionally ("They're too beautiful to play very often"). Unlike most Soviet artists, he has a wide command of contemporary Western music, e.g., Bartok, Hindemith. All told, he has a repertory of between 25 and 30 complete recital programs, plus a slew of concertos...
...stopped applauding only so that the orchestra could play another selection: an intense Strauss Don Juan, a powerful Beethoven Seventh Symphony, a rare performance in Russia of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's Quiet City. And they went wild after the orchestra's richly sonorous playing of Mussorgsky-Ravel's Pictures from an Exhibition...
...easy flush of success Van might be tempted to keep on repeating himself in the showy, romantic repertory he handles so well, neglecting his powers to develop. Says Juilliard Dean Mark Schubart: "He needs to learn more Beethoven sonatas; he needs to work on Schubert, Schumann, Debussy and Ravel. This is no reflection on him; no artist that young knows 'em all." Says Sir Arthur Bliss: "If, like fine wine, he can mature slowly and somewhat secretly, he'll be a great artist. But if he's affected by the immense publicity he's gained...
Room assignments will be handled this summer by Roger Ravel 3L, Secretary of the Union. Hoehler indicated that he will work with Ravel during the summer before taking over his parish...