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...Valerie Lee ’07, handled the opening chords with panache and provided a consistent foundation for the remainder of the concert.However, when the woodwinds entered soon after, intonation issues soured the tonal contrast, and were not completely eradicated until an emergency between-movement tuning during the Schumann. It was the brass, though, which were primarily responsible for the textural imbalances. The trumpets consistently overpowered the strings and woodwinds, even overblowing during the Overture’s final melodic peak—although the brass represented the victorious Dutch, the Spanish couldn’t have been quite that...
...down and become a teacher,” Gorzhevskaya says of her ward. It’s clear that, despite the stress of competing, Nadzhafova loves to perform. Nadzhafova has prepared a diverse program for Sunday’s concert at Sanders, with works by Sergei Tanyev, Schumann, and Prokofiev. Ilya Petrov, 21, the other performer, expresses the same enthusiasm about music as Nadzhafova. Faced with similar financial and citizenship problems, Petrov hopes to tour as a pianist, playing his favorite composer’s works in the Liszt Piano Competitions. He has prepared an all-Liszt program for Sunday?...
...clear that Kogan is a rare combination; he is a Harvard- (he graduated medical school in 1981) and Cornell-educated psychiatrist as well as an accomplished pianist who studied at Juilliard. He has starred in a DVD about the life and work of tormented musical genius Robert Schumann. But he is also a practicing and high-profile psychiatrist. To possess such a chimerical skill set is remarkable, but Kogan’s ability to meld such disparate disciplines in one lecture is what keeps his audiences riveted. Kogan argues in an interview that the combination of music and medicine should...
...great Gothic Cathedral just south of Duesseldorf. It is nearly impossible to discern if the fourth movement is the deepest expression of sorrow or joy, but the extremities of joy and sorrow can often seem indistinguishable due to the profundity of feelings involved. In the fifth movement, Schumann views his solemn experience in the interior of the cathedral from the outside, using many of the same themes and figures he used in the fourth movement...
...Schumann Fantasy Pieces