Bruce Brubaker on all things piano
William Kapell, Van Cliburn, Glenn Gould, Leon Fleisher, Gary Graffman, Jacob Lateiner, Eugene Istomin. These were among post-World-War-II American piano ambassadors. In the 1930s and '40s, so many artists, scientists, and intellectuals came to America. Then, in the '50s, these American-trained, fresh faces went into the world to reread the Classical music canon, part of the accidental urban-renewal of European culture. What happened next? To … [Read more...]
I was surprised when I mentioned James Rosenquist to a composer, a bright, musically informed musician. "Who's that?" the composer said. I'm skeptical of artists who don't know about their field. But what about other fields? Do musicians need to know about painting? Or dance? Or writing? Politics? Physics? A prospective doctoral student at Juilliard told the interviewing committee his favorite symphony by Beethoven was the Ninth. "Is … [Read more...]
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