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After he swings out of the Tiffany this week, Oscar will return to his family in Montreal. There he will spend four to seven hours a day practicing the classics. Why the classics? "I play Chopin because he gives you the reach. Scarlatti gives you the close fingering. Ravel and Debussy help you on those pretty, lush harmonics. Bach gives you the counterpoint...
...sophomore elected is Roger C. Ravel of Kirkland. The other members-elect, all juniors, are: Arthur Tallas, Dudley; Geoffrey N. Ball, Dunster; William E. Bridges, Eliot; Paul Donovan, Leverett; Garr Cranney, Lowell; Stephen L. Reynolds, Winthrop and Joseph D. Murphy of Adams...
...prosperous Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. (which controls the catalogues of H.M.V. and British Columbia) to invade the U.S. market. With a wide-ranging selection of classical and modern music priced to meet U.S. list prices, Angel is offering its first imports this week. Among them: Ravel's Concerto in G, played by Pianist Marguerite Long (to whom Ravel dedicated it) and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, played by London's crack Philharmonia Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan, and four Beethoven sonatas, played by Pianist Walter Gieseking...
Died. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, 89, the nation's No. 1 patroness of chamber music; in Cambridge, Mass. She commissioned countless works by established composers (e.g., Bartok, Ravel, Copland) and struggling newcomers, gave a $94,000 concert hall to the Library of Congress (plus a $600,000 endowment), contributed $200,000 to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's pension fund...
...concerti dating from the early 19th century--not to mention the violin part in the Brandenburg 4th--still make formidable demands upon today's soloists. But (excepting Mozart) it is to this century that woodwind players must turn for the greatest display of their virtuosity, to Stravinsky and to Ravel...