Word: serkin
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Coincidentally, two pieces inspired by Joyce's last novel, Finnegans Wake, were premiered a week apart and had practically the same name. Toru Takemitsu's rippling Riverrun (1984) was given its first performance by Pianist Peter Serkin and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Conductor Simon Rattle. Stephen Albert's ambitious RiverRun debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, under Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with the National Symphony. In Manhattan, Violinist Gidon Kremer played the U.S. premiere of Soviet Composer Sofia Gubaidulina's knotty Offertorium with the New York Philharmonic, while across the East River, the Brooklyn Philharmonic presented the first indoor...
...They do things I wouldn't begin to attempt. But when they come onstage, they might as well be soda jerks." Even among the surviving major pianists of his own generation, however, he was unsurpassed. Vladimir Horowitz, 78, may have a flashier, more dazzling technique; Rudolf Serkin, 79, may have a more intense emotional identification with the German classics; Claudio Arrau, 79, may have an even wider repertoire. But Rubinstein had everything: in his playing, consummate virtuosity and a pellucid tone were at the service of a natural musical storyteller...
...capital. The some 2,000 guests who attended this year's event witnessed the presentation of lifetime-achievement awards in the performing arts to an august quintet: Actor Cary Grant, 77, Actress Helen Hayes, 81, Jazzman Count Basie, 75, Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin, 78. The gala will be broadcast by CBS on Dec. 26. Said a pleased Hayes, "Us old-timers were like kids who were graduating magna cum laude-we were really sailing above the earth...
...Haydn concerto. Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern were on hand too, the picture of collegial conviviality in a Vivaldi double concerto. Soprano Leontyne Price, the diva di tutte le dive, sang arias by Verdi, Richard Strauss and Puccini with resplendent warmth and freshness. And there was Pianist Rudolf Serkin, happily singing along as he performed in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy. At the end, Isaac Stern struck up Happy Birthday, and 2,600 fashionably dressed folk in Symphony Hall joined...
...music. He started with piano lessons when he was four. In junior high, he won the Griffith Foundation New York-area piano competition; in high school, after his third attempt, he won the New New York Times/WQXR piano competition. Judges for the latter competition included Horowitz, Rubinstein and Serkin, Krieger recalls, "and if I don't remember which one judged the contest, I can tell you this: they all had blue eyes...