Word: instrumentalist
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Just a Hobby. Scherbaum sailed through the Brandenburg No. 2 last week as if it were as simple as Au Clair de la Lune. Nonchalantly placing his weight on one leg, the egg-shaped instrumentalist blew through the intricacies of the high coloratura with characteristic ease; he blasted a final, full-volume flourish that brought an audible gasp from the audience. Chances are that he could have gone through the whole piece with his eyes shut: he has recorded the concerto for 14 different labels, has become so thoroughly identified with it that in Western and Eastern Europe alike...
...other composers whose New Music was performed included the German, Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose recent Zyklus for one percussionist appeared on the first half of the program. Designed to combine "the elements of free and determinate performances," Stock-hausen has given his instrumentalist sixteen pages of music which he may play in any order he chooses. Not having heard the work before, I found it difficult to determine whether the choice of the percussionist, Alain Jacquet, was a felicitous one. Zyklus was followed by Bruno Moderna's Musica su duo dimenzione, a dialogue for flute and stereo tape. The tape inedium...
...stubby little man stood firmly on the stage, drawing music with shaking, clenched fists from the choirs ranged on either side of a horseshoe balcony. Later, he picked up a three-string vielle (old-style fiddle) and joined two other instrumentalists and a singer in an expert per" formance of four songs by Guillaume de Machaut (circa 1300-77). Then he sat down and. listened to the world premiere of his own new work-Motets for Tenor and Piano. Thus in a single evening last week, during the Berlin Festival, Paul Hindemith, 64, got a rare chance to wear...
...Frager started playing the piano at four, was giving recitals when he was six, has appeared with most front-rank U.S. orchestras. Last week, against a field of twelve finalists, Frager walked off with the $3,000 first prize in Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours, becoming the first instrumentalist to win the two toughest competitions in music...
Richter's Beethoven seemed to have a ' nervous, compulsive energy lacking in any other pianist. Wrote one critic: "It is strange that a Communist country should produce the most arrogantly individual instrumentalist...