Conductors Retreat At Medomak piece written by librettist Langston Hughes and stridepianist James P Erie Mills,Lee Luvisi, Christine Brewer, William Warfield, byron janis, Sharon Isbin http://www.conductorsretreat.org/ken.php
Extractions: Conductor Kenneth Kiesler is Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at the School of Music of the University of Michigan. There he has conducted orchestras, choral/orchestral works and opera productions, and headed the orchestral conducting program since 1995. The graduate conducting programs attract applicants world-wide and have been consistently ranked first in the nation by US News and World Report . His former students hold prominent positions with major symphony orchestras, opera companies and educational institutions, and have won major international competitions. Mr. Kiesler regularly leads conductors' master classes for the American Symphony Orchestra League, the Conductors' Guild, the Conductors' Institute, the Manhattan School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, and Oxford University. Kiesler has appeared as guest conductor with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the Chicago Symphony at Orchestra Hall, the Utah, Detroit, New Jersey, Florida, Indianapolis, Memphis, and San Diego Symphonies; the orchestras of Albany, Virginia, Omaha, Fresno, Long Beach, Long Island and Portland, the Texas Chamber Orchestra, the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Festivals of Meadowbrook, Skaneateles, Sewanee, Breckenridge, and Aspen. Kiesler has appeared several times with the Jerusalem Symphony and the Haifa Symphony in Israel, the Osaka Philharmonic in Japan, the Puerto Rico Symphony in San Juan, the New Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the Pusan Symphony among others in Korea.
Extractions: Last March, in these pages [this piece was published in the Los Angeles Times ], Times Music Critic Mark Swed took the highbrow view, in effect declaring the concerto too shallow and too flashy, nothing more than a "popular showpiece" with "sure-to-please gushy melodies." Earlier, Bernard Holland, chief classical music critic of the New York Times, rolled his eyes at Rachmaninoff's "weepy tunes," finally dismissing the Third Concerto as very nearly a musical con game "made to order for virtuosos on the make." And, of course, its popularity (which didn't start with Helfgott) only makes things worse. In 1993, Holland complained, fully five of the six pianists in the finals of the Van Cliburn competition all played the thing. He shuddered: "What a horrifying evening it was." We might ask, of course, whether five renditions of any concerto on a single night wouldn't have been equally hard to take. But there's a larger point to make.
Los Angeles Times J. Browning, 69; Pianist Of Brilliant Chris Pasles, Times Staff Writer John Browning, a pianist whose trademarks includingLeon Fleisher, Malcolm Frager, Gary Graffman and byron janis, Browning was http://www.calendarlive.com/music/classical/cl-me-browning30jan30,0,4010497.stor
Calendar Live - New Competitor At The Bench Vladimir Ashkenazy, firstprize winner in the 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition; Russianpianist Dmitri Bashkirov; American concert pianist byron janis; and pianist http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Calendar-X!ArticleDetail-54072,
Extractions: 1. Byron Janis, Pianist. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, Conductor. RCA Victor Red Seal Living Stereo 62691 (Stereo). Originally released 1957. 2. Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pianist. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor. RCA Victor Red Seal 56659 (Mono). Recorded 4 December 1939 Columbia Masterworks IM-38672 (Digital Stereo). Released 1983. 4. Artur Rubinstein, Pianist. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, Conductor. RCA Victor Red Seal RCD1-4934 (Stereo). Recorded 9 January 1956. 5. Artur Rubinsten, Pianist. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor. RCA Victor Red Seal 63060 (Stereo). Recorded 23 November, 1971. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30.
Extractions: When Falla started working on this composition he gave it the title "Nocturnes" which still indicates the atmosphere of the three sections. Most pianists and conductors play the work in a well structured manner and even sometimes with a certain straightforwardness. Curzon and Jorda however work together in a fine tuned atmospheric recording. Jorda is a conductor from the old school and he takes time for phrasing and subtle dynamic variations and so achieves a sense of sultry and mysteriousness, the air bearing heavy scents. It is a rendition which was hardly experienced before (and after, I must say). This performance shows once more all too clear how crucial the cooperation is of all the musicians involved. A true treasure that was well recorded with the piano well embedded in the orchestra. The liner notes of Westminster WL 5075 deal extensively with the structure and the nature of Beethoven's Op. 111 and Op. 2 No. 2. There are however no data about the pianist Kurt Appelbaum with whom Westminster started a complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas. From six discs produced only the one containing Sonatas Nos. 9 and 24 was well received (WL 5090). Westminster apparently abandoned the project and substituted Appelbaum for Paul Badura-Skoda but Demotte says that the wisdom of this choice was to be questioned because Badura-Skoda was much too young.
NewStandard: 10/29/98 pianist byron janis, who has battled back from arthritis surgery on his thumb,will mark the 50th anniversary of his debut at Carnegie Hall with a Lincoln http://www.s-t.com/daily/10-98/10-29-98/zzzwnppl.htm
News Note #409 control. Face reality. pianist byron janis, 70, can again delightin playing music after an ordeal of physical and mental anguish. http://www.christophers.org/nn409.html
Extractions: Problems and pain, joy and satisfaction are part of every life. Your attitude affects your decisions, actions and feelings. With God's grace, the help of others and your own courage, you can handle life's hurts-the wounds you suffer, those you inflict, and the terrible events beyond human control. Pianist Byron Janis, 70, can again delight in playing music after an ordeal of physical and mental anguish. As a young man, Janis had been an international musical sensation. Even after a 1973 diagnosis of arthritis in both hands, he kept playing despite pain. By 1990, the pianist needed relief and agreed to surgery. This hurt his ability to play, sending him into a serious depression. "Music had been my whole life and I couldn't see any alternative." In time, Janis realized he could write songs and teach. He even became a spokesman for the Arthritis Foundation. Thanks to new treatment, he is performing again "with the same fire." Janis adds, "I have had an extraordinary life. I have suffered a lot and have also had marvelous joy."
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Grover's Recommendations: Classical Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor Piano ConcertoNo. 3 in d minor byron janis, pianist Antal Dorati, conductor. http://www.cris.com/~gproctor/CDs/
Pianists Top Arts Music Instruments Keyboard Piano achievements. janis, byron Internationally renowned concert pianist;includes biography, recordings, reviews, performances. Jarrell http://alchoholism.gowebinfo.com/Top/Arts/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Piani
Scott Dunn, Pianist, Conductor,los Angeles, New York SCOTT DUNN is an acclaimed concert pianist and conductor who, since his 1999 A formerchild prodigy and student of byron janis, Dunn, for eight years quit http://www.scott-dunn.com/main.htm
Extractions: SCOTT DUNN is an acclaimed concert pianist and conductor who, since his 1999 Carnegie Hall debut has appeared repeatedly in major venues and with major orchestras throughout the US and Europe. For his Carnegie Hall debut with Dennis Russell Davies and the American Composers Orchestra , Dunn played the world premiere of his own orchestration of Vernon Duke's "lost " Piano Concerto in C (written in 1923 for Arthur Rubinstein and orchestrated by Dunn in 1998). Dunn made a second Carnegie Hall solo appearance in 2001, again with Davies and the ACO, that time performing The Spellbound Concerto of Rosza. From 1999-2001 he served as associate music director to Maestro Lukas Foss for the Music Festival of the Hamptons . Dunn made his professional conducting debut in Eastern Europe in 2000 and in 2002, Maestro John Mauceri appointed Dunn assistant conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in Los Angeles. A former child prodigy and student of Byron Janis Lukas Foss
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Transsexual Pianist with byron janis and accumulating such a distinguished reputation that he was invitedto join the faculty in 1992. Despite his accomplishments as a pianist, http://www.tgguide.com/soapbox/news/042.htm
Extractions: Star-Telegram Classical Music Critic NEW YORK The face of the woman sitting across the table at a midtown Manhattan restaurant is strikingly familiar. The mouth, nose and eyes she bears a resemblance to David Buechner, a concert pianist who won the 1984 Bachauer Competition, was a finalist in Moscow in 1986, and emerged as a promising contender at the Cliburn in 1985 and 1989.
Extractions: Conductor, harpsichordist, and organist. Director of Music, Alice Millar Chapel; harpsichord instructor; chamber music coordinator. Music director, Cheyenne and Elmhurst Symphony Orchestras, Apollo Chorus. Assistant conductor, Peninsula Music Festival. Former music director, National High School Music Institute Orchestra, Northwestern University. Winner, 2001 Community Orchestra of the Year (Elmhurst) and 1996 Programming of the Year Awards, Illinois Council of Orchestras. Guest conductor across the United States. Performances as harpsichordist and organist with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Baroque Ensemble, Omaha Symphony, and Symphony II. Recordings on Cedille and American Gramaphone. Daniel J. Farris
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Extractions: MSS 55, The Horowitz Papers in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University Title: Register to the Papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz. Dates: Created by: Wladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Call number: MSS 55 Repository: Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University Quantity: 65 linear ft. (132 archival boxes, 33 folio boxes) Abstract: In 9 series as follows: I. Correspondence. II. Programs and Program Notes. III. Photographs. IV. Clippings. V. Scrapbooks. VI. Contracts, Royalty and Box Office Statements, Expenses. VII. Items from the Library of Vladimir Horowitz. VIII. Awards. IX. Miscellaneous Items. Access Restrictions: The Papers are open to qualified researchers by appointment. There are no restricted materials in the collection. Please contact Suzanne Eggleston (telephone: 203-432-0497; E-mail: suzanne.eggleston@yale.edu) or Richard Boursy (telephone: 203-432-7883; E-mail: richard.boursy@yale.edu) to schedule an appointment. Acquisition Information: The Papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz are the generous gift of Mr. and Mrs. Horowitz. The collection was presented to the Music Library in twelve installments: 1986 August 25, 1986 September 14, 1987 February 3, 1988 March 28, 1988 April 12, 1988 September 14, 1988 December 14, 1990 July 5, 1990 October 22, 1991 March 22, 1991 November 7, and 1992 March 6. Inventories of these installments are located in the Horowitz reference files in the Music Library. In view of Mr. Horowitz's ties to Yale - he enjoyed playing at Woolsey Hall and was an Associate Fellow at Silliman College - it is fitting that the Music Library be the repository for this great pianist's papers.
