Word: violiniste
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...same name. Toru Takemitsu's rippling Riverrun (1984) was given its first performance by Pianist Peter Serkin and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Conductor Simon Rattle. Stephen Albert's ambitious RiverRun debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, under Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with the National Symphony. In Manhattan, Violinist Gidon Kremer played the U.S. premiere of Soviet Composer Sofia Gubaidulina's knotty Offertorium with the New York Philharmonic, while across the East River, the Brooklyn Philharmonic presented the first indoor performance of Tobias Picker's frisky Keys to the City, written in 1983 to celebrate the Brooklyn Bridge's centenary...
...just before you start down you know that that is the very top of where you are going." Comic Actor Kaye, 71, shared the pinnacle moment last week in Washington with Singer Lena Home, 67, Opera Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, 73, Playwright Arthur Miller, 69, and Violinist Isaac Stern, 64. The quintet were receiving this year's Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in the arts. They join a select company of only 30 other recipients...
Renata Scotto, 49, opera singer whose husband Lorenzo Anselmi abandoned his work as a violinist after they were married 24 years ago: "The biggest decision a man can make is to give up his own career to dedicate himself to his wife...
...native land after an absence of 17 years. In New Delhi, the eleventh stop of the orchestra's eight-nation Asian tour, all seemed fine as two elephants tromboned a welcome, but then his musicians began raising a cacophony of complaints about the hotel accommodations. "Unbearable," screeched a violinist. "There are bugs in the bed," one musician whined. "And cockroaches," chimed in another. Mehta quieted the sour-note chorus by allowing a move to a more hospitable hostelry. In the end, though, the conductor heard the sweet sounds he had come for: the concert was greeted with thunderous applause...
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Violinist Gidon Kremer, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner, conductor; Philips). Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Pianist Ivo Pogorelich, Chicago Symphony, Claudio Abbado, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). These concertos, featuring two electrifying performers, are of unusual interest. Pogorelich has technique and temperament in equal measure; right from the piano's cascading entry, this is hot-blooded, Russian-style Chopin, more than a continent removed from the genteel salons of 19th century Paris. The Kremer-Marriner partnership in the Beethoven results in an elegant performance deliberately at odds with the customarily virtuosic way of viewing...