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Victory. For two months, from the time he was accepted until he left for Moscow, Van shut himself away in his tiny Manhattan apartment on 57th Street across from Carnegie Hall and spent six to eight hours a day at his quilt-covered Steinway practicing the staggering repertory each entrant was expected to master. Plagued with colitis, he dutifully went in for dieting and rigorous physical conditioning, boosted his strength with massive doses of vitamins and six packages of Knox gelatin a day. Sundays he checked his progress with Mme. Lhevinne, or gave small private recitals for groups of friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The All-American Virtuoso | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...Says 57th Street Dealer Sidney Janis: "We've got something they don't have. The first thing the Europeans talk about is the vitality of the new art in America." Gallery Owner Rose Fried put it another way: "The French can cook up a better cuisine, but right now we've got the more vigorous stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boom on Canvas | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...where he studied under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher studied under Artur Schnabel in Manhattan, got his biggest professional boost five years ago when he won Belgium's International Concours. Nowadays when the three are in Manhattan together, they reserve Steinway's basement on 57th Street every free evening and test new pianos ("We are always on the lookout for pianos that are good for Mozart and also Prokofiev") and play for one another until midnight. When one of the trio is playing well, there is nothing but the sound of the piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Post-Prodigies | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Although he calls many of his contemporaries who show their works "the frustrated Bob Hopes of 57th Street," Still rates high in abstract artists' circles. Art Critic Clement Greenberg calls him "the most original painter alive"; Manhattan's Modern Museum places him among the top four U.S. abstractionists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: HOME FOR MODERNS | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...summers ago Perry Miller suggested that Madison Avenue be razed from 42nd to 57th Streets. This would eliminate most of the great advertising agencies, decimate the radio and television networks, and destroy the headquarters (at 44th Street) of the legendary Gray Flannel Suit...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Idiot Box | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

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