Word: vosgerchian
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...What a generation gap," says Miss Vosgerchian. "A generation and she didn't know...
...Miss Vosgerchian went to Paris in 1949 to study with Mlle. Boulanger. Since her return to the United States in 1956, she has reduced her Symphony work to teach with fewer interruptions at Harvard. When she does perform, she plays more often at college concerts. "I'm not a Horowitz," she says. "But on the university level I can make available a repertoire that students otherwise wouldn't hear...
Years of playing have not overcome all of Miss Vosgerchian's reserve, despite her usual ebulliance. Monday lectures in Music 51 still make her nervous, she says. And when she last played at Dartmouth's Hopkins Center, "You know they wanted so many interviews and photographs!" She makes a face...
MUSIC 51 is run on one apparent principle: that practical facility is as important as theory. Each student accordingly has two small keyboard sections after the Monday lecture. Miss Vosgerchian believes that to "understand" a technique of harmony means little. The mind and ear must be drilled until they can handle it facilely. Only then is a student inclined not to settle for the first harmonization he thinks of. He will be able to choose the best of several...
...pushing each student to try the uncomfortable, unorthodox use of a technique that Miss Vosgerchian's vehemence has brilliance. She sits by a student's shoulder at the piano, questioning, wheedling, soothing, demanding that he try an exercise one more way. "You don't think I'm going to let you be comfortable, do you?" she said to a student. "All you can do is to be up against something and use it for what it offers...