Word: fleisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leogene Graffteiner is really four pianists: Gary Graffman, Leon Fleisher, Eugene Istomin and Jacob Lateiner. The first three are close friends, and all share an extravagant admiration for an ancient Steinway concert grand known as "Old 199." Because they pass it from one to another while touring in the U.S., they refer to its current player by a composite name. Graffman & Co. today are in the forefront of a group of young U.S. pianists who have recently made the perilous leap from prodigy to professional artist...
...following were appointed assistant managers: John Fleisher '59, of Lowell House and West Orange, N.J.; Daniel M. Fox '59, of Leverett House and New York City; Lawrence D. Lavers '59, of Adams House and Stamford, Conn.; and Allan S. Novins '59, of Lowell House and Rochester...
...Dunster: Michael F. Butler, Walter H. Caulfield, Jr., Lawrence R. Fleisher, A. Ronald Grimm, and Grey Hodnett...
Boston Symphony (Mon. 8:15 p.m., NBC). With Pianist Leon Fleisher...
With a $3,000 prize in his pocket and a series of European concerts lined up, the winner was in no great hurry to flash the Dempsey punch on U.S. keyboards. Said Leon Fleisher, who has been playing quietly in Europe for two years: "Music in America is becoming a rat race. What all the towns . . . want these days on one program is a team of four pianos, a fiddler, a ballet dancer, and a juggler...