Word: rachmaninov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bennett has since gone on to perform over 400 concerts, win 50 national and international competitions and become one of the youngest musicians ever to perform Rachmaninov's 3rd concerto. His favorite memory was performing privately for the President of Poland, Lech Walesa, at the age of 17. "He is someone I grew up idolizing. He freed Poland from the Communist government. I had always grown up admiring his strength of character and to get to play a program of all Polish music (Chopin), there was something kind of magical about the whole thing," he stated...
...worth it to ignore section work tonight. The Boston Conservatory is trotting out the big guns to tickle the ivories with the second installment of the "Piano Masters in Recital" series. Acclaimed Greek pianist Dimitri Toufexis will perform works by Debussy, Chopin, Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Gershwin. 8 p.m. Seully Hall, 8 The Fenway, Boston. 912-9122. FREE...
...well as offering majestic and emotional interpretations of the great Russian and German concerti--Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Brahms--Cliburn has always had a special affinity for solo piano works. His recording of Chopin have matched those of the late Artur Rubinstein and Claudio Arrau in popularity. Sunday's concert will feature Chopin's C-Sharp Minor Scherzo as well as pieces by Debussy and Szymanowski...
Cliburn may have lost a step or two in his more than half-a-century (he first played publicity at age 4) of concertizing. The removal of Rachmaninov's monumental Third Concerto from the planned program for Sunday night may have resulted from a memory loss in an earlier tour stop. However, similar doubts followed Cliburn's almost ten-year hiatus from public playing from 1978 until 1987; they were dispelled upon his return...
...Like Rachmaninov, the stubborn composer who used 19th-century models for his music, Sontag is a willful anachronism and has never been accepted by critics and academics. Unlike Rachmaninov, however, it is doubtful that Sontag's Volcano Lover Work will be embraced by the general public. Now the novelty, the taboo topics have vanished from Sontag's art; a shadow of the pioneer of the '60s has settled into his book...