Monthly Archives: October 2008

LEON ALIVE

October 28, 2008

THE PAST IMPERFECT
Who doesn’t remember Leon Levich? If there are three of you in a room, Leon tuned two of your pianos, and hocked you a chainick all afternoon about his own music and why it never gets played. Anyhow, he was at the latest “Chamber Music in Historic Sites” last Sunday, at the Wilshire [...]

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ANTONY & THE PIANISTS

October 19, 2008

TOO HOT TO HANDLE?
My editors at Bloomberg News had suggested weeks ago that the following item would be worth my attention. I never asked why. I fulfilled my obligation last Tuesday with my usual celerity and dispatch. On Wednesday I was informed that my article – honorable though it was – was “totally off the [...]

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End of the World?

October 12, 2008

A FURTHER NOTE ON THE UPCOMING WORLD’S END:
URBANA, Ohio (AP) — A defendant had a hard time facing the music
Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical [...]

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The Grim Weeper

October 5, 2008

THE GRIM WEEPER
Joseph Kerman, whose “Opera as Drama” contains the immortal phrase “’Tosca,’ that shabby little shocker,” comes down somewhat more gentl y on  “Madama Butterfly.”  Taking careful note of the opera’s “coarseness of sensitivity,”he concedes brownie points to the one truly poignant scene, in Act Two, as the Consul Sharpless  vainly attempts to read  [...]

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