Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BARTOK: SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS AND PERCUSSION; BRAHMS: "HAYDN" VARIATIONS (CBS). Conductor Georg Solti hits the keyboard, joining Pianist Murray Perahia in a rousing pair of masterworks for two pianos...
...exclaims, sitting in an empty Midwestern concert hall listening to the first rehearsal of his new Violin Concerto by the Kansas City Symphony. "I know I wrote slurs over those eighth notes, but they're all jumbled together. They sound like mush." Davis jumps up and heads toward the conductor, score in hand. "We need to hear each one separately," he says. "Dig-a-da-dum!" he scats, his right hand punching the air in emphasis. All at once, something that had been mumbled turns articulate as the strings bite into their parts...
...certain dynamism," said Chairman of the Orchestra's Board of Trustees, Leslie J. Garfield. "In view of his youth, tremendous enthusiasm, his knowledge of music, and the way he related to orchestra members and they to he, he emerged as the leading conductor...
Thus far, Wong has been a guest conductor of the New England of Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, assistant conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and a conducting fellow of the Aspen Music Festival...
Lately, Mutter has been performing frequently with Cellist and Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, both as a soloist with Rostropovich's National Symphony Orchestra in Washington and as two-thirds of a string trio that includes Violist Bruno Giuranna. Speaking as one for whom the violinistic legerdemain of the two Prokofiev concertos holds no terrors, Mutter observes of her new mentor: "He is the only one who knows what was going on with Prokofiev when he wrote that music...