He continued giving song recitals through the end of 1992 and then, on New Year's Day 1993, announced that he would sing onstage no more.
Music and Dance BRISTOL CHAPEL, RIDER UNIVERSITY Westminster Choir College sing-ins, Tuesday and Aug. 3; recitals, Wednesdays through Saturdays through Aug. 6 All performances at 7 30 p.m. Hamilton Avenue and Walnut Lane, Princeton.
Marathon, tomorrow afternoon at 4; other recitals, Monday through Thursday at 1 30 and 4 30 p.m., Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 87 Marshall Street, North Adams, Mass., (413 662-2111.
Mr. Ziporyn, today at 4 30 p.m.; children's concert, tomorrow at 11 a.m.; "Music for Airports," tomorrow night at 8; recitals Monday through Thursday at 1 30 and 4 30 p.m.; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 87 Marshall Street, North Adams, Mass., (413 662-2111.
But the pianist Russell Sherman, who plays there tonight, has been revitalizing the piano recital for decades through his astonishing and provocative artistry.
In his final recital, he banged through some late Brahms but then gave mesmerizing accounts of two of Mr. Stockhausen's pieces, at once airy and compulsive, and found in Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations a whole rainbow of meanings and attitudes to the keyboard, to music, to life.
Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life".
Two members of the board, halfway through this recital, stood up and left the room.
