4 Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 10, 1985 OUTFITTED BY ESPRIT and UNION BAY II A coffee break with Duchable By Neil Galanter TT'S AMAZING how close you can Sget to a person after only an hour of friendly coffee conversation. This is what I decided after talking with I Francois Rene Duchable who is scheduled to perform an all Liszt piano recital this evening at Rackham Auditorium at 8 p.m. Duchable is an affectionate, animated Frenchman who spokes exictedly about his performance here and all of his performances in .x general. "Music is my friend always. At ,k home the piano is my friend, when I play in public, the audience is the friend." says Duchable, in his distinct French accent. According to Duchable one of the most difficult things about being a touring concert pianist is having to constantly readjust to each new piano Qfrom city to city. Every piano is dif- a "Weather can affect the piano a great deal, causing its performance ability to go up and down like a moun- hump on the tablecloth. ~1Duchable, age 33, was born in Fran- ce and received all his training there. By the time he was 13 years old he had already won first prize in piano and made headlines in the France-Soir newspaper. Then, at the age of 16, he won the Queen Elizabeth Competition V in Brussels, Belgium and at age 21, he drew warm admiration from the 330 S. State/Nickels Arcade - 761-6207lendary late pianist Arthur Runin- stein. Tonight, for his second Ann Arbor Francois Rene Duchable's hands were made for Liszt. appearance; Duchable will perform an all Liszt program in honor of the upcoming Liszt Centennital of 1986. He has programmed the heavyweight B Minor Sonata, as well as a group of four transcriptions which he admires 4 greatly. "I only play the pieces that I like, and I don't like all the Liszt transcrip- tions but these I like a lot. There is a good deal of fine music among them," he says, referring to the Paraphrase on Mozart's Don Giovanni, the tran- scription of Berlioz's Symphonie Fan.- tastique (2nd, 3rd, and 4th moveme- ts), and the transcription "of Tchaikovsky's Polonaise of Eugene Onegin, which he will perform this 4 evening. "In Don Giovanni, I like to pretend that I am Don Giovanni himself as i am playing," he says with a gentle smile. Duchale commented on the fact that he will play music from his homeland for his first U.S. orchestra concert. H has played a many recitals and a lot of chamber music here but never as a soloist with an orchestra. He looks forward to doing just that in Miami.,4 Duchable feels the music of Franz Liszt has absolutely everything, and he is naturally pleased to do all-LisZt recitals. "There are elements of pure popular romanticism in his music and there are religious aspects as well," he comments. Tonight's program will feature that pure romantic color, chock and brimming full of emotional warmth and drive, Duchable's performance4 should produce ethereal results, the kind that prompted Ovation Classical Music Magazine to write, "...(Duchabe) is a powerfully ac- curate pianist, posessing th eprover- bial cleark French tone and brilliant technique at its best. In fact, Duchable impresses as a born Liszt player." Tickets are still available for the whole price range, $10-$15 and can be purchased at the Office of the Unvier- sity Musical Society in Burton Tower until 4:30 p.m., or at the box office tonight from 6:30 p.m. until 8p.m. Central Park 'Strawberry 4 Fields' opens (Continued from Page secretary-general. Also represented were Britain, Hungary, Turkey, Peru, Cyprus, Sweden and Australia. Missing was Lennon's son by an earlier marriage, Julian, 22, who ap peared for the ground breaking ii March 1984. Ono announced plans for the park in July 1981 inviting "all countries of the world... to send plants, rocks, and bricks." She said the area of the park was "where John and I took our last walk together." The garden was seen as a testment to world peace. Jordan's fothergilla grows beside Israel's cedar. The Soviet Union set4 river birches, and there are dog woods from the late Princess Graceof Monoco. The United States, which tried to deport Lennon because ~of alleged drug violations, is not represented in the garden. Hundreds of fans gathered outside the park and lined the street to the Dakota. They cheered "We love yo Yoko" and "Happy Birthday, Sean" as the mother and child made the short walk to the ceremonies. Sean stood through much of the ceremony smiling shyly with his thumbs jammed in his front pans pockets. . The park's name comes from thi Beatles' 1967 hit, "Strawberry Fields Forever," which recounts the sim- plicty of Lennon's childhood. 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