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British composer, pianist and music educator (1886-1967)
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- composer, pianist, music teacher
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Whatever happened to...Rebecca Clarke?
[…] lot with our old friends Jelly d'Arányi and Adila Fachiri. She was a founder member in 1927 of the English Ensemble. However, her composition began to take a back seat.7. World War II: she returned to America, lived with her brothers and took a post as a nanny. But - was her creativity drying up? Nope. The Duo Concertante dated from about 1941.8. She married an old friend from her RCM days, the pianist James Friskin, who was on the faculty at the Juilliard School in New York.9. As late as her nineties, she returned to some of her old pieces and reworked them. She died in 1979 aged 93.10. Despite increasing recognition of her work at long last, much of her music remains unpublished. Several works were issued in 1998-9. More remains. In fact she wrote more than 100 compositions. In her lifetime, only 20 were published.Here's hoping that […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-04-12 21:58:53
Violist’s Bravery Rewarded
[…] technical, musical (to bring out its expressive qualities over the technical requirements), and as stagecraft (“it remains for the deceptively similar [but always different] repetitions of earlier phrases to be committed to memory without error”). Despite the fact that Enescu was Romanian, and was firmly settled in Paris and at that time under French compositional influences, the sound of the opening section of this work strikes us as strangely English, possibly Delian or even James Friskin-ish. It is lush, reveling in fat viola sounds (interestingly, considering that Enescu was one of the great violinists of his age, the only available recording of him in this piece has him playing the piano, not the viola; we take it as a sign of great professional respect). As in the Mozart, and with even more opportunities, Murrath communicated those sonorities splendidly, and allowed the upper registers to ring out, and in both the […]
2015-04-21 17:31:33
[…] technical study and fluency: *** Here’s annother Halford selected gem (a Menuetto) that was rendered on my formerly owned Baldwin Hamilton grand piano (known as the “blind date” beauty) To be sure, it had a brighter timbre which proves that each piano has its own unique character. (I’m definitely enjoying my new Baldwin 165 model grand with its more mellow character) *** Not contained in Halford’s collection, but snatched from James Friskin’s edition, is the celebrated C Major Sonata L. 159 that my late teacher, Lillian Freundlich gave me to study decades ago when I first began lessons with her. (At the time, I was about 13, enrolled at the New York City High School of Performing Arts) This certainly poses a challenge in the universe of trills, providing an ample practice opportunity for a student needing such focus. LINK: Scarlatti’s LIFE, CAREER, and […]
2014-01-25 14:46:35
Husband and wife pianists I have known and their legacy
[…] Finally, a musical retrospective that’s framed with Rosina Lhevinne’s inspiring words. “…discover the world through study, kindness, imagination, and through the integrity of your own quest.” *** About Lillian and Irwin Freundlich Irwin and Lillian Freundlich Collection http://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/irwin-and-lillian-freundlich “Irwin Freundlich (1908 – 1977) was an internationally recognized piano educator who taught at the Juilliard School in New York for more than 40 years. “He studied piano with James Friskin and Edward Steuermann at the Institute of Musical Art (parent school of the present Juilliard), and took further studies in musicology with Paul Henry Lang and Erich Hertzmann at Columbia University. “In 1935, he became a member of the faculty at Juilliard and continued to maintain a heavy teaching schedule there in the piano department. He was the co-author with James Friskin of “Music For Piano: A Handbook of Teaching and Concert Material,” published […]
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