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Extractions: Steve J. Sherman, 1999 Ruth Laredo in 1999 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she performed in the long-running "Concerts With Commentary" series. Ms. Laredo, who played her last concert on May 6 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had cancer and died in her sleep, said her manager, James Murtha. The concert was one of a series she had given for 17 years at the Met called "Concerts With Commentary," in which Ms. Laredo played and spoke engagingly about music. The series had become an important part of the New York concert scene, where she was a frequent presence. Just two days after the attack on the World Trade Center, Ms. Laredo celebrated the 25th anniversary of her Alice Tully Hall debut with a recital there. It was the opening concert of the 2001 Lincoln Center season, and Ms. Laredo addressed the audience beforehand, saying: "It was important for me to play. Great music gives us spiritual sustenance and gives us hope. It is in that spirit that I play tonight."
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Extractions: Ruth Laredo recently took part in Russian Festival "International Week" Pianist Ruth Laredo was invited by the Ministry of Culture of Russia to take part in the Russian Festival "International Week" held by the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after Rimsky-Korsakov from September 20-27, 2004 . This year the Festival was be dedicated to the bicentenary of the great Russian composer, Mikhail Glinka. Ms. Laredo, a 3-time Grammy nominated artist known for her recordings of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, took an active part in the festival program, performing both as soloist and chamber music player and conducting a master class for Russian students. Review of Performance at the Cleveland Museum of Art Pianist summons perfect storm of music "Ruth Laredo, known as 'America's First Lady of the Piano,' is gifted with steely fingers, prodigious technique, a passionate temperament and an affinity for dark and heavy music. In her superb recital Wednesday night at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the renowned artist plunged into pieces by composers who pushed and expanded the expressive powers of the piano. Shrewdly balancing familiar and lesser-known works, she played with ringing tone, intense presence and innate musicianship."
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Extractions: Artist's Biography Ruth Laredo has achieved a reputation as one of the world's foremost pianist. A native of Detroit, Michigan, she studied with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute of Music and made her orchestral debut with Leopold Stokowski and the American Symphony Miss Laredo has appeared with most of the major U.S. orchestras including the New York Philharmonic , the Cleveland Orchestra , the Detroit Symphony , the Boston Symphony , the Philadelphia Orchestra and the National Symphony. Following a sensational debut with Boulez and the New York Philharmonic , she received reviews: "Smashing, sensational" (N.Y. Post). "Astonishing" (N.Y. Times), "Total triumph" (Byron Belt). The Newhouse Newspaper raved that she is "one of today"s dream keyboard artists." After a performance by Miss Laredo one reviewer stated, in the Tulsa Daily World, "Not only is she a concert pianist but she can also be said to be one of the few keyboard orchestrators of our time." Miss Laredo is widely recognized for her recordings of the complete Scriabin Sonatas and Preludes, as well as her the "best of the year,"
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Extractions: And throughout the U.S. F or 16 consecutive sold-out seasons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, distinguished pianist Ruth Laredo has been presented in a unique series that has won her exceptional acclaim for her masterful playing and lively commentary. Her Programs have encompassed a broad range of composers, from Scriabin, Ravel and Rachmaninoff to Clara and Robert Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, and Tchaikovsky. Making use of biographical sketches, musical examples and personal insights, she creates a living portrait of the composer and his music.
Extractions: RUTH LAREDO BIOGRAPHY Hailed as "America's First Lady of the Piano" (N.Y. Daily News), Ruth Laredo has a distinguished worldwide reputation as a leading soloist, recitalist and recording artist. While she is particularly renowned for her pioneering recordings of the complete solo piano music of Rachmaninoff and the complete piano sonatas of Scriabin, her broad repertoire ranges from Beethoven to Barber. For the past 16 seasons, she has created a large and enthusiastic following for her sold-out series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, "Concerts with Commentary." She has won high praise for her masterful playing and discussions of Brahms, Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Her most recent series is on the music of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Shostakovich, in a three-concert series titled "The Russian Spirit" with special guests Courtenay Budd, soprano and the St. Petersburg String Quartet. Her Video, "Live from the Metropolitan Museum", celebrates her unique Rachmaninoff performances. Her latest recording is a 2-CD set of the complete Brahms Piano Quartets with the Shanghai Quartet, recorded on the Arabesque Label. Her recent CD, recorded on an authentic 1893 Bechstein Piano from the Metropolitan Museum's instrument collection is entitled "Such Good Friends", and highlights the personal relationships between Brahms, Mendelssohn, and the Schumanns. Ruth Laredo appeared in the Woody Allen film, "Small Time Crooks", which stars Hugh Grant. In the scene, Hugh Grant tries to impress Tracy Ullman by taking her to an important N.Y. Concert, a piano recital in which Ruth Laredo plays music of Rachmaninoff. Noted for her strong commitment to chamber music, Ms. Laredo frequently collaborates with the Tokyo String Quartet, and was a founding member of the Music from Marlboro concerts. She has appeared with the Guarneri Quartet and the Tokyo Quartet in Lincoln Center's Great Performers series, as well as with the Vermeer, Shanghai, Emerson, Muir and St. Lawrence Quartets. In 1996, she teamed up with jazz greats Marian McPartland and Dick Hyman for a wonderfully inventive evening called "Three Piano Classical / Jazz Crossover" which made its debut at the 92nd St. Y's famed "Jazz in July" series. This combination has become a consistent hit around the country ever since that night. A three-time Grammy award nominee, Ruth Laredo has been widely praised for her recordings. She was the first pianist ever to record Rachmaninoff's complete solo works for CBS Masterworks, which earned her a "Best Keyboard Artist" award from Record World magazine, and a Grammy nomination. These ground-breaking recordings have been re-issued on five CD's by SONY Classical. Her historic Scriabin recordings - the first of the complete sonatas, have been re-issued on two CD's by Nonesuch. She recently recorded Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" and Rachmaninoff's Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos with her colleague, James Tocco, on the Gasparo label. Her all-Barber recording on Nonesuch earned her another Grammy nomination. This season, she recorded Ned Rorem's "Day Music" suite with violinist Philip Setzer for Newport Classics. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress and the White House, and with such prestigious orchestras as the N.Y. Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, and the Detroit Symphony. She has played with the leading chamber orchestras, including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Ms. Laredo made a highly successful tour of the U.S. as soloist with the Warsaw Philharmonic, culminating in a performance of the Rachmaninoff 1st Concerto at Carnegie Hall. Prior to the tour, she appeared with the orchestra in Warsaw for a United Nations Day concert which was televised throughout Europe. Her extensive tour of Russia and Ukraine, highlighted by concerts in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Odessa, formed part of an extraordinary television profile about her on "CBS Sunday Morning". In demand as an eloquent and authoritative commentator on the arts and piano literature, she has been a regular columnist for Piano Today magazine, a frequent guest critic on WQXR's long-running "First Hearing", and a Special Arts Correspondent for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition", and she has hosted "Onstage with Young Concert Artists" on WQXR for the past three years. Ruth Laredo's life and career have made her a role model for women in the arts. Nominated for the "Woman of the Year" award by Ladies Home Journal, she was a guest speaker at the Harvard/Radcliffe Women's Leadership Conference at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. She was recently chosen to give the Commencement Day Address at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts. "The Ruth Laredo Becoming A Musician Book", a guide for aspiring pianists drawn from Ms. Laredo's own experiences is available in bookstores around the country. (Publisher: European American Music Corporation). Her work as editor of the complete Rachmaninoff Preludes for Piano, published by C.F. Peters International, is available worldwide. Born in Detroit, and a longtime resident of New York City, Ruth Laredo studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Rudolf Serkin, made her N.Y. Philharmonic debut with Pierre Boulez, and her Carnegie Hall orchestral debut with Leopold Stokowski and the American Symphony. Her N.Y. Recital debut was presented by Young Concert Artists. She is the proud mother of Jennifer Laredo, who is married and lives with her husband, the cellist Paul Watkins, in London, England.
Extractions: Back Issues ... UM Web site var story_id = 477550; Home Stages Published: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 Ruth Laredo, "America's First Lady of the Piano" (New York Daily News), will perform a recital on Oct. 24 at 8 p.m. in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center's Dekelboum Concert Hall. A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Laredo has established a distinguished worldwide reputation as a leading soloist, recitalist and recording artist. While particularly renowned for her pioneering recordings of the complete solo piano music of Rachmaninoff and the complete piano sonatas of Scriabin, her broad repertoire ranges from Beethoven to Barber. The New York Times declares her "a technical wizard. . . . She can hold her own with any pianist alive." Her Oct. 24 program includes the classics that she performed at her 25th anniversary gala concert at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center in 2001 to celebrate her debut recital there:
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Extractions: -Pianist Hailed as "America's First Lady of the Piano" (N.Y. Daily News), Ruth Laredo has a distinguished worldwide reputation as a leading soloist, recitalist and recording artist. While she is particularly renowned for her pioneering recordings of the complete solo piano music of Rachmaninoff and the complete piano sonatas of Scriabin, her broad repertoire ranges from Beethoven to Barber. For the past 16 seasons, she has created a large and enthusiastic following for her sold-out series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, "Concerts with Commentary." She has won high praise for her masterful playing and discussions of Brahms, Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Her most recent series is on the music of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Shostakovich, in a three-concert series titled "The Russian Spirit" with special guests Courtenay Budd, soprano and the St. Petersburg String Quartet. Her video, "Live from the Metropolitan Museum", celebrates her unique Rachmaninoff performances. Her latest recording is a 2-CD set of the complete Brahms Piano Quartets with the Shanghai Quartet, recorded on the Arabesque Label. Her recent CD, recorded on an authentic 1893 Bechstein Piano from the Metropolitan Museum's instrument collection is entitled "Such Good Friends ", and highlights the personal relationships between Brahms, Mendelssohn, and the Schumanns.
Extractions: March from Peter and the Wolf by Johann D'Souza If you are looking for a "Wow" CD of classical piano virtuostic works - this is not the disc. However, listening to this album does bring back memories for a former piano student like myself. Well, as the programme suggests, it is a nostalgic look at Ruth Laredo's first recital and constitutes works every pianist would have gone through when learning the piano, from earlier works by J.S Bach to Für Elise by Beethoven, with works gradually increasing in difficulty and progressing to modern works like Prokofiev's
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