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...Horowitz taught some half a dozen students between 1944 and the early '60s. It was not always a happy experience for the students. Horowitz would sometimes cancel lessons without warning if he was not in the mood. "It had its negative aspects," says Alexander Fiorillo, a professor of piano at Temple University who studied with Horowitz between 1960 and 1962. "He is callous to people's emotions and their feelings. I almost had a nervous breakdown." Yet Coleman Blumfield, whose lessons came to a summary end in 1958 for reasons he never completely understood, declares, "It was a privilege...
Elaine S. Fiorillo, Dept. of Sociology Boston State College...
...House is less interested in training professional musicians than in teaching music as an avocation. But it is proud-just as Chicago's Hull House is of Benny Goodman and Manhattan's Music School Settlement is of Pianist Ray Lev-of having produced one professional comer: Dante Fiorillo, Pulitzer and Guggenheim-winning (four times) composer...
...marriage took place in the barred cubicle of Warden Merritt's office at the Yonkers jail. Justice of the Peace Albert Fiorillo officiated. Miss Spero was tastefully dressed in a black tailored ensemble and wore a corsage of gardenias. Mr. Slavickas wore the customary striped trousers, the stripes running horizontally instead of vertically...
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