Word: soloists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...featured soloist was pianist Findlay Cockrell '57, winner of Pierian Sodality's Concerto Contest this year. His interpretation of the Liszt E-Flat Piano Concerto was refreshing in two respects. He brought to it a brashness and fluency of approach with which his technical prowess was fully capable of coping; and he avoided even the slightest hint of those mannerisms whose abuse has made this work seem hackneyed to many...
...sell advertising time to the merchants. "I remember one show we put on in Sycamore, Illinois," he says. "I was the announcer. The local township orchestra was directed by a girl named Florence Wollensock, and I made the mistake of calling her 'Cot-tonsock' several times. The soloist on the same show was a girl named Lulu Clutter, and the accordionist was Charlie Pittlecow. If that wasn't an announcer's nightmare...
...musical setting must heighten, not dwarf the spirit of the poetry. Finally, there is the language--the cool, stark quality of Latin in this case--to render beautiful, Mr. Bonvalot's settings fulfilled these qualifications to a remarkable dgree. The power and intelligence with which Mr. Bonvalot, one soloist, conveyed both the dramatic and musical aspects of the work further contributed to their overwhelming impression upon...
Luise Vosgerschian, prominent Boston pianist, will be the featured soloist in the Music Club's Christmas concert tonight in the Fogg Museum Courtyard...
...soloist possesses to a supreme degree one of the chief requirements for playing Romantic works with freedom and yet clarity; a sense of rhythmic propulsion. One can only be free of a strict meter when one controls it absolutely; Mr. Berman did. The innumerable arpeggios were not merely a blur of sound but a powerfully directed line...