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Igor Kipnis
entertainer, not musician
by Sara Schwieder
He sits in front of his gold and red
lacquered $10,000 harpsichord,' talking to
the audience, gesturing, the smoke from his
cigarette curling up around his fingers.
Delicate tingles of sound brush across the
packed room like foam across a wave.
Igor Kipnis considers himself less of a
classical musician and more of an
entertainer.
"I try to stress informality-to get rid of
formalities like coat and taib-and take it to
tha kids. There is no earthly reason why
classical music should ba the domain of a
few cultured people. One doesn't have to
learn that much about it to like it," Kipnis
said.
Kipnis is down-home, he cats with the
audience, answers questions, cracks jokes
and explaines the music he plays. The
audience sits on the floor or sprawls in
chairs-and thoroughly enjoy themselves.
Kipnis has given five workshops and one
lecture since he arrived in Lincoln Tuesday
and will end his visit here by giving a free
concert tonight in the Nebraska Union
ballroom at 8 p.ra
About 209 people sat for an hour
listening to Kipnis' verbal and musical
cavortings Wednesday night in Selieck
Quadrana cafeteria.
It presented a strange picture: ugly neon
lights, Selleck's distinct institutional flavor,
the room packed with a crowd that ranged
from footballers to classical music majors,
hips, straights, old and young people-all
transfixed by the music flitting around the
room. The crowds are always attentive. .
when Kipnis plays, everybody listens.
But when he talks, everybody relaxes and
has a good time.
He played a wide range of classical pieces
from all periods. Mozart, Bach, Scarlotti,
English folk songs, French composers,
Handel. He frequently called for requests
from the audience, giving off-the-cuff
answers to questions. Kipnis covered
harpsichord technique, the construction of
the instrument and even rattled off an
impromptu history lesson.
"I started talking to audiences by
accident," Kipnis said. "People don't expect
you to talk at a darned music concert, but I
just did it once, and everyone liked it so
much that I've done it ever since."
Kipnis has been performing in
dormitories and in lounges where students
live-in order to better facilitate his informal
approach and to "bring classical music to the
people that count-the younger generation."
- "There are a lot of ordinary people that,
if exposed to classical music, could be good
audiences. College kids stay away unless one
makes a special effort to accomodate them."
he said. Harpsichord is an art form, just like
the movies.
Kipnis played piano for years, but finds it
difficult to play both instruments because
the keys are further apart on the piano, and
the piano has a completely different touch
than the harpsichord.
"I leave the piano alone. I still like the
piano but I don't recognize its existence," he
said.
Kipnis is the son of a famous singer,
Atocandar Kipnis, and his grandfather vees
composer. He studied piano many years
without tiwarfparforndnp professkMisPy,
and graduated from Harvard with a tSsfpva in
social relations. He said he played the
harpsichord occasionally in coiitfa, hut
didn't become a professional until several
years after he graduated.
Kipnis worked in broadcasting for several
years programming classical music, and he
was art and editorial director for
Westminster Records for five years. Later he
wrote reviews for the New York
Herald-Tribune.
He made records with groups for a while,
then made his solo debut in 1962. His first
solo record came out in 1934 and hahas 16
solo LP's now, with two to be recorded in
May.
"I was nominated for a Grammy Award
this year; they announced the winners a
couple of days ago, but there is so little
interest fat classical music that they didn't
even announce the classical music winners. I
don't know if I won it or not," Kipnis said.
Kipnis is professor of music at Fairfield
University. He travels five weeks per term
and has toured Europe three times, twica on
a Rockefeller- Foundation grant and once
on his owa He spent November and
December touring Australia.
"I can't convince everyone that classical
music is good, but it is just a matter of
exposure The more they hear it, the more
they like ft," Kipnis liid
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