Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortunately, Papa Horowitz has plenty of rubles. Vladimir is sent to the Kiev Conservatory to prepare for a leisurely musical career - so leisurely that when he graduates the family makes plans for him to study another ten years before contemplating concert work...
...revolution comes, Papa's bank account, position, all go into the Red. The family must eat; Vladimir, the hothouse flower, protected and indulged during his first 17 years, blossoms into a full-time professional pianist at 18. Only 200 people -most of them admitted free - attend his first concert. At the second, there are more paying customers. The third is a sellout. The career and the reputation gather velocity but not money. Vladimir is paid with bread, sausages, clothing; he is, literally, the family breadwinner...
Largo. Occasionally Horowitz finds himself seized with a sickening stage fright. He asks the manager of one concert hall to tell the audience that Mr. Horowitz cannot appear. Tell them yourself, says the miffed manager. Horowitz tries: he goes to center stage, looks out over the blob of faces, opens his mouth-and then dashes for the safe harbor of his grand piano...
...same unique informal spirit pervaded the folk concert Wednesday night in Quincy. Although the program was being taped for WHRB rebroacast, students and their dates sat in chairs and on tables around the crowded dining hall...
...overall programming, too is aimed at an audience seriously interested in music. They strive for "variety and balance" says Erlanger. The "Afternoon Concert," "Music of the Renaissance," or "Great Chamber Music" shows are balanced by the popular trad jazz show "Here Comes the Hot Tamale Man" (Barry Hilton '66), the daily "jazz Entree," or the Baladeers" and "Hillbilly at Harvard." There are also documentaries, and weekly broadcasts of the Ford Hall Forum and the Mem Church Sunday service, although much less time is given to non-musical...