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Word: raveled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EVENING CONCERT. Haydn, Symphony 103 (drum roll); Rachmaninoff, 'Cello Sonata; Vivaldi, Concerto in D for viola d'amore; Beethoen, Sonata 25 for piano, opus 79; Mendelssohn, Quartet no. 4; Ravel, Pavanne pour une Infante Defunte...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Programs for the Week | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

...water-skiing and plays the piano with the aplomb of a seasoned virtuoso. Word about Lorin has been spreading in the musical world since the evening, three years ago, when he sat down with Manhattan's Little Orchestra Society as a last-minute substitute soloist and dashed off Ravel's tortuous Concerto in G Major as if he owned it. Last week, impassive as ever, Lorin appeared on the Telephone Hour (NBCTV) playing Chopin's Waltz in C-Sharp Minor and an excerpt from Saint-Saën's Fifth Piano Concerto for a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Teen-Age Virtuoso | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Charles Munch, music director. Direct from Symphony Hall. Program: KHRENIKOV, Suite from incidental music to Much Ado About Nothing; AMIROV, Mugams; KABALEVSKY, Piano Concerto; MOUSSORGSKY-RAVEL. Pictures at an Exhibition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WGBH Programs For The Week | 11/10/1959 | See Source »

...piano literature for one hand can pretty well be numbered on the fingers of two. Scriabin, Brahms. Ravel and Strauss all took a shot at it, along with such moderns as Benjamin Britten and Leos Janacek.* The rest of the left-hand repertory is pretty much what the trade calls "knitting music." But a platoon of composers in Holland last week was hard at work on some new and surprisingly engaging left-hand pieces to be played by a recent recruit to the field: 45-year-old Dutch Pianist Cor de Groot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With the Left Hand | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...written by handicapped pianists, e.g., Hungary's famed Geza Zichy (1849-1924), who lost his arm in a hunting accident, but developed into such a virtuoso that he played three-hand recitals with Liszt; Vienna-born Paul Wittgenstein, who lost an arm in World War I, and commissioned Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, two works by Richard Strauss, Britten's Diversions on a Theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With the Left Hand | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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