Word: planist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was somewhat the case at Sanders last night as planist Robert Helps, violinist Isadore Cohen and 'cellist Charles McCracken teamed up to perform the well-known and beloved work. By professional strandards, it was a fairly sloppy performance. The strings, especially the 'cello, suffered periodic spates of bad intonation; phrasing in the piano seemed to lack contour and direction; and on the whole the three sounded as if they had not much time to play together...
David Hathaway '67, the piano accompanist for one contestant, complained that these standards were too high. "The HRO is not a professional orchestra," he said, "and I resent their making such a condescending decision." Another Planist also complained that no practice room was provided. He added that the contestants had not been informed in advance of the manner in which the contest would be conducted. The same contestant felt that the contest should have been better advertised, so that the participants would "at least have had the experience of playing before an audience...
...program, to be conducted by Victor Manusevitch, will include the first local performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 47: Mo-zart's Piano Concerto in B-Flat, K. 456, with Israeli planist David Barillan as soloist: and Mendelssohn's rarely heard Symphony No. 1 in C-Minor...
...Quincy-Holmes Arts Festival will present Priya Nath Mehta, Indian guitarist and planist, in a concert of Indian classical and folk music at 8:20 p.m. tonight in the Quincy dining hall...
...Planist Ruth Laredo and violinist Jaime Laredo will present a concert in Sanders Theater Monday...