sch201
My Contact Information (Optional)
- Name
- steve
- E-Mail
- sch201@comcast.net
My Favorites (Optional)
- Favorite Work
- Too many to name, but have a special interest in 20th-century classical music.
- Favorite Composer
- Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartók, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Messiaen, Scriabin, Enescu, Berg, Schoenberg, Webern, Mompou, Falla, many U.S. & Latin American composers past and present.
- Favorite Performer
- Piano: Richter, Moravec, Rachmaninoff, Gieseking, Tatum, Monk, Elllington. Strings: Heifetz, Kashkashian, Starker. Trumpet: Herseth, Armstrong, Beiderbecke.
- Favorite Venue
- Symphony Hall, Boston (too bad I live in Evanston!).
- Favorite Conductor
- Reiner, Martinon, Munch, Ancerl, C. Davis, Toscanini, Furtwängler, Abbado, Mravinsky, Boulez, Désormière, Szell, C. Kleiber, E. Kleiber, van Beinum, Haitink, et alia
My Music (Optional)
- Affiliations
- Working on a full-length biography of Jean Martinon. Former president of the (now defunct) Fritz Reiner Society.
History
- Member for
- 1 year 29 weeks
