A musical winter of discontent Like every critic, The New York Times' Harold C. Schonberg knew that programming has as much to do with impulse, and maybe coin tosses, as deliberate decision. And like every critic, he saw specific pieces pop up in the same time frame with no apparent outside cause.
Eddie Adams: Arthur Rubinstein, New York, 1966, pigment print. Two years before this spar, stylized photograph was taken, pianist Arthur Rubinstein told New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg, "There has to be an element of daring in great music making. These younger ones, they are too cautious." Rubinstein, then 77, was on top of his musical game and still taking chances. This portrait is part of an exhibit of photos of music's greats, many identifiable by a single name -- Judy, Lenny, Miles, Barbra, Frank, and Louis. The Art of Sound is at Monroe Gallery of Photography, 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800. Mark Castator: Cyllene, 2010, steel. "My sculpture is heavily influenced by drawing and Abstract Expressionism: movement and spontaneity," says artist Mark Castator. This richly textur...
Classical music has dominated the life of master pianist Leon Fleisher, now 82 years old, since he was 4, when he took over his older brother's piano lessons. This amazingly informative book tells how it felt to be a musical prodigy, to study with the most accomplished teachers of his day, to win one of the greatest international piano competitions and to play with the best conductors and best orchestras at the top of his profession.
...By Harold C. Schonberg. Simon & Schuster, 1987. From Mozart'...
... the cowboy, a point lamented by the critic Harold Rosenberg, "The Search for Jackson Pollock," Artne.... 83. Duchamp, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, "Creator of Nude Descending Reflects after Half a...
Music examples, index. Because I am a former student of its author, I initially was hesitant to review this collection; the editor's memorable reply changed my mind: "I'm sure you realize that if I eliminated from consideration everyone praised or excoriated by Taruskin, there would be virtually nobody left!" Even if I am an interested party, so is everyone else.
...Taruskin praises critic Harold Schonberg as "a matchless connoisseur of romantic ...
With Leonard Bernstein's wildly diverse, emotionally cathartic "Mass," creating order is paramount, and challenging. uE03F "It's like a huge jigsaw puzzle," said Pam Berlin, the New York-based stage director for this Virginia Arts Festival program being performed today and Saturday at Chrysler Hall.
...One of the nastiest came from Harold Schonberg of The New York Times: "It is a pseudo-s...
The story of violinist Erica Morini, her violin and its disappearance might have made a nice whodunit, says playwright Willy Holtzman. Instead "The Morini Strad" became the tale of a relationship that forms between a former child prodigy and a much younger man whom she hires to repair her valuable Stradivarius violin.
... that newspaper's former chief music critic Harold C. Schonberg once called her "probably the greate...
The story of violinist Erica Morini, her violin and its disappearance might have made a nice whodunit, says playwright Willy Holtzman. Instead "The Morini Strad" became the tale of a relationship that forms between a former child prodigy and a much younger man whom she hires to repair her valuable Stradivarius violin.
... that newspaper's former chief music critic Harold C. Schonberg once called her "probably the greate...
ROME - Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him the most beloved and celebrated tenor since Caruso and one of the few opera singers to win crossover fame as a popular superstar, died today. He was 71. His manager, Terri Robson, told the AP in an e-mailed statement that Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5 a.m. local time. Pavarotti had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and underwent further treatment in August.
... all," the late New York Times music critic Harold Schonberg once said. "He's correspondingly more sp...
ROME -- Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him one of the world's most beloved tenors, has died, his manager told The Associated Press. He was 71. His manager, Terri Robson, told the AP in an e-mail statement that Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5 a.m. local time. Pavarotti had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and underwent further treatment in August.
... all," the late New York Times music critic Harold Schonberg once said. "He's correspondingly more sp...
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