Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking about Cleo-she was talking about Mrs. Norman ("Buff") Chandler, 61, wife of the president of the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co. To raise money for her pet project, a new L.A. Music Center, Buff peddled premiere tickets at $250 apiece, raised $1,094,403, bringing her virtuoso fund-raising performance to a queenly total of some $15 million...
...York, Solal's music turned out to be every bit as good as the echoes from Paris had suggested. He is an amazingly adept virtuoso, and he never lets his virtuosity run away with his musicianship. Instead, he pursues unconventional harmonic flights, exploring the full reach of the keyboard with a fanciful right hand and a strong and steady bass line. In improvisation, his imagination is rich to the point of bursting, and he punctuates his own ideas with ironic mockeries of the pianists he has learned something from-Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Art Tatum...
Dello Joio: Fantasy and Variations (Lorin Hollander, pianist; Boston Symphony Orchestra; RCA Victor) is here given an appropriately spirited performance by the young pianist who played its world première last year. It is music for a virtuoso pianist and a game orchestra. So is the cheerful Ravel Concerto in G on the other side...
Songs at Sunset (Virgil Fox; Capitol) features a great virtuoso and a great instrument (the 10,000-pipe organ at Manhattan's Riverside Church) pitted against the banalities of such music as Ich Liebe Dich and The Lost Chord...
Handel: Four Favorite Organ Concertos (E. Power Biggs; Columbia) features another great virtuoso and a great instrument (designed by Handel, it is now in St. James's Church, Packington, England). The best of the four concertos is the grand and glorious No. 16 in F Major, which Biggs plays with immense symphonic richness and excitement...