Word: symphonicment
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When Conductor Leopold Stokowski turned 84 in April, the members of his American Symphony Orchestra presented him with a sapling to be planted on his small farm in New York State, where he spends each weekend tending his groves of trees. It was only appropriate, for Stokowski is something like...
Tree of Sound. The Boston Symphony has hit upon a likely solution. As in every orchestra, many of the Boston musicians have tried to balance their heavy symphonic diet with doses of chamber music, slipping off like addicts in need of a fix to play where and however they can...
Rubinstein's feats of memory are legendary. In 1903 he caused a sensation in Warsaw by performing Paderewski's Sonata in E Flat Minor the day after it was published; he learned Cesar Franck's complex Symphonic Variations on the train en route to a concert hall in Madrid. He...
Denied a hearing, Alkan's music remained virtually unplayed for more than a century. Part of the reason pianists steered clear of him was that his works were so fiendishly difficult to play. A frustrated orchestral composer, he favored great chordal eruptions of thick, textured sound. In his imaginative...
Vigil's End. In the withering preliminary rounds, the first to be weeded out were the conductors who, like a child walking a Great Dane, were unable to hold a tight rein on the Orchestra of America. In the semifinals, which none of a ten-man U.S. contingent was...