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Show Watts to play piano Tuesday rector of Lectures and Concerts, whose office is co-sponsoring the' concert, "Students who miss his concert will be making the musical mistake of a lifetime." The concert is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 10 at Highland High School Auditorium, 8:15 p.m. Tickets for the concert sell for $4 general admission. U students stu-dents with I.D. need pay only $1. Tickets are on sale at the Lectures and Concerts office, Annex 1 199, and at the door. Andre Watts is scheduled to play at Highland High School Tuesday. Watts, a 23-year-old black pianist, will be sponsored by the Artists & Speakers-Civic Music Association. Watts made his national debut on the piano on Leonard Bernstein's Bern-stein's Young People's Concert series when he was 16. On that occasion, Bernstein described him as "a genius." Watts was born in Nurnberg, Germany, and is the son of an American G.I. and a Hungarian music teacher. Although he grew up around Army posts in Europe, if he was reared as an American. When he was young, his family moved to Philadelphia where he was enrolled in the Philadelphia Music Academy. At the age of nine, he won first place in competition compe-tition with 40 young pianists and was rewarded with a concert appearance ap-pearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He says that "much of today's music is reaction against the 'schmaltz' which marked some of J the bad artistry of the 40's and 50's. For this reason, he only plays piano compositions from the romantic era of music. According to Paul Cracroft, di- |
