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Died. Pierre Luboshutz, 76, concert pianist; in Rockport, Me. Following his graduation' from the Moscow Conservatory in 1912, Luboshutz served as accompanist for such personalities as Gregor Piatigorsky and Isadora Duncan. He also did scores for Stanislavsky productions including Peer Gynt. Luboshutz first came to the U.S. in 1928 and began performing piano duet concerts in 1937 with his wife, Genia Nemenoff. For 30 years they toured the world, winning critical praise and popular success with their subtle interpretations of Mendelssohn, Mozart and Brahms...
After graduating from Harvard in 1956, he went to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger. He was studying composition full-time and had given up the idea of a concert career, yet he somehow found time to tour Holland, Belgium, and France as an accompanist to the singer Robert Gartside. In 1952 Berman returned to Harvard as a graduate student in Music. When Nadia Boulanger visited the United States. Berman impressarioed the concert at the Fogg Art Museum. Shortly afterward he returned to France temporarily resumed accompanying. He came back to Harvard in 1963 and began work...
Mirza's ragas show a clarity that American critics have often found lacking in performances of other Indian musicians. He manages to achieve organic union of his melodic material with the complementary rhythms of his tabla accompanist Faygaz Khan, without sacrificing the hold definition of the raga's theme...
Last summer at Tanglewood he was the chief rehearsal accompanist under Michael Thomas, assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...surprises her even now. It is far more enjoyable, she says, to give a concert in Boston, than in New York. Here she is an "accepted commodity"--in New York you have to break in again each time you play. At a concert recently, Miss Vosgerchain was playing as accompanist to a friend. A tall black woman, the daughter of Roland Hayes, came to her afterwards. "I've never heard of you," she said, "but I simply must have you as my pianist...