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Music major Carol Millard '86 says she likes making electronic music because it offers more room for individual creation than other musical fields. "Jazz is too structured," she says. Tcherepnin echoes Millard's attitude. "Electronic music is one of the last remaining frontiers. Fifteen years of violin training in 20 years of life provides no advantage in this medium over pure curiosity...
With his son conducting, Stern will play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. The younger Stern, a music major at Yale University, also will conduct Brahms' German Requiem, and his father will play in the violin section of the orchestra...
...educators save their special scorn for such programs as Suzuki, a music-teaching method that sets two- and three-year-olds to performing on the violin and other instruments, or the Better Baby Institute in Philadelphia, which offers parents a weeklong course called How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence so that the toddler can achieve "encyclopedic knowledge." A & common upshot of such regimens, say critics, is robot virtuosity with little understanding and no lasting gain. The most reliable head start parents can provide, asserts T. Berry Brazelton, professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, in his 1985 book...
...single synthesizer and two male backup singers. Her barrage of instruments included a particularly bizarre vocoder (a synthesizer that alters the sound of human voice), an amplified microphone stand on which she tapped out the beat for "Closed Circuit," and her own technological innovation, the magnetic tape-bow violin...
LALO: Symphonie Espagnole; SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen. Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin, with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Orchestre National de France (Angel; LP or CD). The Symphonie Espagnole is a puzzlement. Neither a symphony nor a concerto, and no more authentically Spanish than Chabrier's Espana or Ravel's Rhapsodie Espagnole, Lalo's five-movement showpiece for violin and orchestra has never won a firm place in the standard repertory. Sometimes in performance, it even has its third movement omitted, for unfathomable reasons. But a high-spirited, sensitive soloist can make it effective, and Mutter, 22, is that ideal performer. A German whose...