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American comedian, composer, pianist and actor (1906-1972)
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2022-10-04 13:12:00
Wigmore Hall Chopin: Nocturne in C minor, op.48 no.1, Ballade no.1 in G minor, op.23, Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, op.58 Tristan Murail: Impression, soleil Levant Beethoven: Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor, op.111 François-Frédéric Guy (piano) In this Wigmore Hall recital, François-Frédéric Guy took a fresh look at well-known piano masterpieces, and presented a work new this year, written for him by Tristan Murail. Dedicated to the memory of two close friends, Nicholas Angelich and Lars Vogt, it was an interesting concert in the best sense, with nothing taken as read and much to have one think. The first half was dedicated to Chopin, opening with the C minor Nocturne, op.48 no.1. Guy married harmony to rhythm in its first section, immediately conveying a sense of the inexorable. Dignified, never remotely sentimental, it both prepared the way for and necessitated contrast in an ever-broadening middle […]
2022-10-03 14:16:11
Arnold Schoenberg, part IV, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: October 2, 2022. Schoenberg, Part IV, In America. This is the fourth, and – we promise – last installment of our notes on the great Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg. He arrived in the United States on October 31st of 1933 and spent the first year in Boston. He probably would’ve stayed longer but Boston’s weather made his asthma worse, and in September of 1934 Schoenberg moved to Los Angeles. He wrote to his friend, the conductor Fritz Stiedry, who was then working in the Soviet Union: "We are going to California for the climate and because it is cheaper (sic!)". He eventually settled in Brentwood and lived there for the rest of his life. To support himself, he gave private lessons (Oscar Levant was one of his students), but soon was invited to lecture at the University of Southern California. In 1936 he was made a […]
2022-06-29 00:29:02
Nearby are Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Oscar Levant, Gregor Piatigorsky, Helen Traubel, and Frank Zappa, not to mention Billy Wilder, Josef von Sternberg, and Marilyn Monroe. Previously: Lubitsch, Korngold, Salieri, Bruckner, Liszt, Georg Trakl, Willa Cather and Edith Lewis, Thomas Mann, Bach,...
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