Word: f-sharp
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...concert to come," he explains). Horowitz has been known to be stiff early in a recital. "In the beginning, the fingers are cold. Warm water doesn't work. I have to warm up from inside." His crisp, classically elegant way with the opening work, the Sonata in F-Sharp Minor by Muzio Clementi, a contemporary of Beethoven's, made it clear that Horowitz was warm all over...
...piece should last longer than ten minutes, he stuck by his determination "not to play down to the public, but not to be too esoteric either." His program is a shrewd sampling of nine works from his recent recitals, including the noble pathos of Chopin's Polonaise in F-Sharp Minor, the lapidary classicism of two Scarlatti sonatas, and the flashy fireworks of his own Variations on a Gypsy Song from Bizet's "Carmen...
...Giovanni, probably the greatest opera ever written, the Don, to judge from the text alone, could be just a playboy or an obsessive lecher. What gives him nobility and heroism, what defines him as not simply a lecher but a rebel against God, is Mozart's music. "An F-sharp doesn't have to be considered in the mind; it scores a direct hit," Leonard Bernstein points out. "Think of King Lear in an opera. He'd be raging as no Lear could ever rage in a spoken play: in a great bass voice, with a frantic...
...beer, offset by such additional items as Comin' Through the Rye and The Last Rose of Summer. Presenting a little-known song from an opera called Clari, she immortalized Home, Sweet Home. Her voice spanned nearly three octaves, top ping out at G above high C. Her high F-sharp was pure enough to split a ray of light, and she had an incredible ability to sing very softly at that altitude. No one could match her messa di voce-the technique of holding a single note while in creasing and diminishing its volume...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Paris Symphony, Copland's Corral Nocturne and Hoe Down, Dohnányi's Suite in F-sharp Minor. Conductor: Milton Katims (see Music...