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...such he is a priceless antidote to the prevailing vogue in pianism for note-perfect but dry interpretations. Along with the Bach and the Chopin, Cherkassky plays at least one modern piece on each program, and often the most startling revelations occur in these works. Ives' Three-Page Sonata or Stockhausen's Klavierstuck IX are rinsed in his effervescent Romanticism, and concertgoers find formidable works exciting. Cherkassky's birthday bash is Dec. 2 at Carnegie Hall; several other dates, including St. Louis, Cleveland, London and Rome will follow...
...PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS. Bumbling burglars, wiseacre kids, nasty adults, guilty secrets: this spook sonata sounds like a forced merger of Home Alone and Arsenic and Old Lace. The movie is all setup and little payoff, but writer-director Wes Craven (the first Nightmare on Elm Street) and a good cast make it fun. Sometimes the best part of a horror movie is waiting to be scared...
Pianist Patrick O'Byrne-performs a solo recital at MIT as part of the Artist-in-Residence Series. The program will include Lilburn's Chaconne for Piano, Beethoven's Sonata, op. 53 in C Major, Ravel's Miroirs and Enrique Granados' Goyescas. Free, in MIT's Killian Hall. Wednesday...
Pianist Judith Gordon--performs SONATA by Harbison and 24 PRELUDES by Chopin at Lehman Hall. Call...
EMIL GILELS: PROKOFIEV & KABALEVSKI (harmonia mundi). Gilels was magisterial in both Prokofiev's brilliantly fertile Concerto No. 3 and his Second Sonata, but the exuberant, captivatingly melodic Piano Concerto No. 3, with composer Dmitri Kabalevski conducting, makes this reissue irresistible...