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Bach, Mozart, Ravel and Chopin, and to absorbing Italian verse during hours of relaxation. During his teens, Michelangeli lived in a monastery for one year during a bout with tuberculosis, still withdraws there when the world presses too close...
...competition moved toward the finals last week, a battle shaped up between Poland's Witold Dobrzynski, who startled the audience with a dynamic, expert performance of Beauty and the Beast from Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, and Denmark's Paul Jorgensen, who became an early favorite with his Victor Borge-like humor, which puzzled spectators but intrigued the judges. Wearing a perpetual wry grin, the Dane began his performance by tapping on the rack to silence not the musicians but the judges themselves. For all his humor, he was adept at dodging errors, at one point marched...
...JACK KENNEDY, a faithful Guest Conductor listener (whose father Joe, the family's No.11 music buff, listens to Beethoven records by the hour), detailed his choice in a long letter written by Wife Jackie: Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun, Ravel's La Valse, Berlioz' overture to Benvenuto Cellini, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and dances from Borodin's Prince Igor...
...Wednesday, a concert will be given by Shirley Suddock, soprano, Rowland Sturges, plano, Mary Fraley Johnson, violoncello, and Howard Brown, flute. The program includes lieder by Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf; Fetes Glantes, set I, of Debussy and Chanson Madecasses by Maurice Ravel...
...tour was less successful : because they decided to take their families ("It's the best insurance against divorce"), the players paid out $25,000, took in only $15,000. But they had no regrets as they closed out their tour last week. Said Second Violinist Loft: "We played Ravel in France, Beethoven in Germany, Holmboe in Copenhagen, and everywhere threw in some American modern. We went into the lion's den and came out unscathed. Now I hope Europeans realize Americans can play chamber music even if they are from Chicago...