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Pianists Teicher. 31, and Ferrante, 34, have played together so long that friends think they are beginning to look like each other, tend to communicate with each other through keyboard tones rather than spoken words. First as students, then as instructors at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, they experimented with piano sound by placing all kinds of objects among the strings, a method pioneered by Composer John Cage, who called it "prepared piano." In 1948 they succeeded in producing a thudding drum effect (by shoving pieces of rubber between the strings) and used it in their version...
...includes 40 hymns, responses, prayers, glorias and amens, all composed by 41-year-old Composer-Pianist Vincent Persichetti. to fit verses by more than a dozen poets, including famed versifier Anon. A teacher at Manhattan's Juilliard...
Pantaloon, by Manhattan's Robert Ward, 39, assistant to the president of Juilliard School of Music. The plot adapted from He Who Gets Slapped by Russian Symbolist Leonid Andreyev, concerns a disturbed fellow who joins a circus as a clown for deep-seated reasons of his own. Composer Ward's music resembles Mascagni's, with thick textures sweeping strings and sweet harmonies and thus Pantaloon has the makings of a successful theater piece. Unfortunately, the drama does not need, or benefit from, the addition of music...
...Laszlo. in her U.S. debut, sang solos in Dallapiccola's song trilogy, An Mathilde; its rich-hued. profoundly melancholy finale had to be repeated after a storm of applause. And Schoenberg's freewheeling arrangement of a Handel concerto grosso, Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (featuring the Juilliard Quartet), was just puzzling enough to make a satisfying finale...
Jean Madeira (nee Browning), 37, got her first urge to sing the part when she heard the opera as a child in St. Louis. She started out, however, as a piano student with her piano-teacher mother. She wanted to continue her studies at Manhattan's Juilliard School, but a Juilliard piano teacher told her: "If I had a voice like that I would go into opera-you can always play the piano." Jean took the advice, and eight years later was hired by the Met. Once she sang Carmen from the Met stage, but only in a student...