![]() He first performed with the Orchestra on subscription concerts in in Orchestra Hall on February 3, 4, and 5, 1994, in Berg’s Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Thirteen Wind Instruments with Daniel Barenboim conducting. He was seventy-two.įor more than fifty years, Serkin was a frequent soloist with the Orchestra, both at the Ravinia Festival and in Orchestra Hall.Īt the age of seventeen, Serkin made his debut with the Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival on June 27, 1965, as soloist in Bartok’s Third Piano Concerto with Seiji Ozawa conducting. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra family joins the music world in mourning the passing of the remarkable American pianist Peter Serkin, who died earlier today at his home in Red Hook, New York following a long illness. GERSHWIN Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra STRAUSS Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra in D Minor January 4, 1965, Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee November 5, 1962, Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee November 4, 1962, Edgewater Beach Hotel (WGN Great Music from Chicago television broadcast) ![]() November 1, 2, and 3, 1962, Orchestra Hall RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 2 (The Age of Anxiety)įritz Reiner and Byron Janis in Orchestra Hall TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto in B-flat Minor, Op. A complete list of his appearances is below.īEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. Reiner and the Orchestra gave superb collaboration, part Russian song, part Russian bear.”įor more than twenty years, Byron Janis was a regular visitor, as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and as a recitalist in Orchestra Hall. his Tchaikovsky was big, beautiful and dynamic, yet with all its tensions it sensed the relaxed sweep of the grand style. It comes out in the explosions of the double octaves, in the instinctive sensing of the crest of a phrase. “He has temperament and fire and he wants, perhaps more than anything in the world, to play the piano. Janis does,” wrote Claudia Cassidy in the Chicago Tribune. Janis played a performance of the Tchaikovsky concerto uncommonly beautiful for what it was, and uncommonly exciting for what it can be. On March 4, 1954, Janis made his debut with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall. Whatever he touched he made significant and fascinating by the most legitimate and expressive means.” On October 29, 1948, Janis made his Carnegie Hall debut, and Olin Downes in the New York Times wrote, “Not for a long time had this writer heard such a talent allied with the musicianship, the feeling, the intelligence and artistic balance shown by the twenty-year-old pianist, Byron Janis. The following year, he was chosen by Vladimir Horowitz as his first student, and at eighteen, he became the youngest artist signed to a contract by RCA Victor Records. Janis made his professional debut at the age of fifteen in 1943, performing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra family wishes the legendary American pianist Byron Janis a very happy ninety-fifth birthday!
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