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...some fine instrumentalists, among them flautist Doriot Anthony Dwyer, clarinetist Harold Wright, trumpeter Armando Ghitalla, and horn player James Stagliano. The programs, decided on co-operatively by the entire group, are diverse: this Sunday, the group will do a Rossini Quartet for Strings, Piston's Woodwind Quintet, and the Schubert Octet...
...Chamber Players give their concerts on the side, in addition to their orchestra duties. In order to get the experience of performing chamber works on a regular basis, they give up hugh chunks of their time. "For the Schubert Octet, we will probably have had twenty-five hours of rehearsal," Silverstein says. A similar amount of time spent on every work on the program would amount to almost eighty hours of preparation for a single concert, over and above regular BSO rehearsals...
...written 15 songs for the poems of Hans Christian Andersen," he shyly admits. Cries Nordraak, eagerly: "Has Hans heard these?" Later, Grieg's wife Nina (Florence Henderson) sighs: "How do you suppose the others managed?" Replies a piano salesman played by Edward G. Robinson: "You mean Schubert and Liszt, for example?" When Grieg enters the Scandinavian Club in Rome, the clerk informs him, "A countryman of yours was asking for you." Grieg asks, "Who's that?" Replies the clerk: "Mr. Ibsen...
...many insights into the minds of the great composers which Rosemary Brown has afforded us in the liner notes of her new record. She also tells us that Debussy dresses like "what you'd call a hippy type," that she doesn't care for Bach's music, and that Schubert has played the ending of the Unfinished Symphony for her. Rosemary Brown claims that the spirits of the great composers use her as a medium to continue their musical careers after death. They...
...definitely not inspired, in any sense of the word. Pedestrian is a more apt description. The pieces Katin plays are somewhat boring: a "Beethoven" Bayatelle which is just that, a piece of little interest revolving around an absurdly simple little figure; a pensive, delicate, yet only mildly competent "Schubert" Moment Musicale; a "Chopin" Impromptu in F Minor which is rather heavy and plodding; and so on through Lizst, Debussy, and Brahms, and over to the second side on which Mrs. Brown gives us an inspirational message before commencing what sounds like a series of second-year piano drills...