Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last month 59 young, healthy pianists from 20 countries turned up to compete for world renown. By last week a dozen enervated ghosts were left to ache up to the piano and venture the stipulated "transcendental difficulties" of the Concours finals (TIME, June 6. 1955). The requirements: one short solo piece, one undesignated concerto and-to assure transcendental difficulty-a modern, unpublished concerto by Brussels' Rene Defossez. The finalists were bundled into the comfortable Chapelle Musicale and told they had a week in which to learn the strange new work...
Night falls, and Pierrot sits alone in the deserted marketplace. The folded tents of the merchants stand tall and sad as cypresses. The lady and her lover appear, and dance together a sensuous adagio. Sombert is lovely in this lyric piece, and Youskevitch is starkly splendid in his solo dance. The clown, mad with jealousy, climbs to the wire. He will prove, though he dies, that he is a man, and die he does. He lies broken in his lady's scarlet mantle, like a white bird in a pool of blood...
Died. Hortense Monath, 51, topflight concert pianist, program director and co-founder (in 1936) of Manhattan's famed New Friends of Music, first American woman pianist to solo with the NBC Symphony (1941); in Manhattan...
Last week Suzanne Valadon (as she signed her work) was gaining posthumous recognition with her first solo show in the U.S.A collection of 60 prints and drawings at Manhattan's Peter H. Deitsch Gallery left little doubt that, within the narrow limits she set herself, she had succeeded brilliantly in creating what she wished, not "beautiful drawings designed to be framed, but good drawings, which capture a moment of life in movement-all intensity...
...concert. The novelty on the program was Wenzel Matiegka's charming if uninspired trio for flute, viola and guitar, with 'cello part added by Schubert; ensemble a bit ragged, but guitarist Richard Zaffron contributed delightfully quaint twanging and strumming. Flutist Karl Kraber ended concert by deftly tossing off virtuoso solo part in Telemann's sturdy A-Minor suite for flute, strings and continuo...