Death of a UK Schoenberg pioneer
mainThe British pianist Kyla Greenbaum, who has died at 95, gave the UK premieres of Arnold Schoenberg’s piano concerto at the BBC Proms in August 1945, and of his Fantasia, with the violinist Tibor Varga.
Her showpiece was Constant Lambert’s Rio Grande, an exotic work that barely outlasted its composer.
Kyla was a lively London character in the 1960s, fading from the limelight when she accompanied her psychiatrist husband, Andrew Crowcroft, to a posting in Canada.
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