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Withdrawing to a mansion in Arezzo with his pianist wife, he established a renowned year-round school for some 40 hand-picked students, including Argentina's Martha Argerich, who this year won Poland's prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition (TIME, March 26). More like a Renaissance patron than a schoolmaster, Michelangeli also instructed his students in the selection of fine wines and gourmet foods ("I cannot teach if I cannot also teach the art of living and cooking...
...over 30 years he was constantly on stage, playing Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Chopin so often that he could no longer hear the notes, even while his fingers gave virtuoso performances. He grew ever more fearful of the audiences that forever insisted he encore with his tour-de-force arrangement of Stars and Stripes Forever. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz began to feel like a stunt man, and even worse, to doubt his own artistic integrity. In 1953, aged 48, he stopped performing. Last week, after twelve years of deeply melancholic self-exile, Horowitz returned to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. A supremely...
Other nights he spends at the movies, laughing convulsively at the cartoons. His one abiding passion besides dancing is music. He has a collection of more than 4,000 records-Chopin, Bach, Callas arias, Scriabin, and every album Peggy Lee ever put out. He never travels anywhere without his portable phonograph. He plays the piano, can listen to almost any classical recording and tell who is conducting...
...Winner Argerich the ordeal was withering. Midway in a concert last week, a doctor was summoned backstage for Argerich, who was suffering from insomnia and near exhaustion. Nevertheless, she came onstage and swept through Chopin's Scherzo in C-Sharp Minor with a fleet and fiery abandon that left the audience gasping. Though a slight, delicate girl, she played with an almost masculine power and assertiveness. For more introspective passages, she tempered her mercurial attack with a limpid, poetic tone and subtlety of phrasing that won her the added honor as best interpreter of Chopin's mazurkas...
Peripatetic Life. The somber, tense, darkly attractive Argentine seems especially attuned to the melancholy moods of Chopin. Throughout most of the contest and even on the day of her triumph, she wore only black. Both her parents are officers in the Argentine diplomatic corps, and their peripatetic existence during her early years afforded her the opportunity of studying with a variety of noted teachers. After winning two international competitions, making a highly successful tour of Europe and an excellent first recording, she curiously retired from playing in public and all but gave up practicing. She resumed her career just...