Russell Sherman died last night at 93. He was the piano guru of the Boston area for over 55 years, having arrived during that revolutionary decade which saw the comings of Gunther Schuller, Michael Steinberg, Victor Rosenbaum, Thomas Dunn, and others. Please also read our reprint of a fascinating interview with Russell Sherman from 2016 HERE. Well, to have been a fly on that wall.”)Sherman’s Boston and soon his New York recital reviews in the 1960s and 1970s were very strong. Soon, in the early 1970s, he made exciting, powerful, clear-eyed recordings of four Beethoven sonatas (the most thoughtful Op.

Source: New York Times October 02, 2023 04:52 UTC