Word: horowitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Radio Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Sanderling; Monitor). Thanks to skillful transfer of technically mediocre Soviet tapes to high-quality American matrices, this record stands out as the best yet released in America of fabled Sviatoslav Richter (TIME, June 16), probably the most versatile, widest-ranged pianist alive. Equaling Horowitz's technique, Rubinstein's poetry, Serkin's sensitivity, he makes even Saint Saens' Piano Concerto No. 5, on the other side, seem vivid and important...
...bussed him soundly on both cheeks. To Composer Aram Khachaturian, Van was "better than Rachmaninoff; you find a virtuoso like this only once or twice in a century." France's Marquis de Gontaut-Biron, a frequent judge of piano contests, found that Van had "almost the technique of Horowitz during his prime, and he has everything Horowitz always lacked." Raved Britain's Sir Arthur Bliss: "He plays with fire and poetry, and gives vitality to every phrase." More cautious, U.S. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos feels that Van "could rise to Rubinstein's stature, but at the moment...
...given him the freedom to play as little or as much as he pleases, and to pick his repertory. But at the same time it has cast him in a unique musical role. "He may be the first man in history," says a friend, "to be a Horowitz, Liberace and Presley all rolled into one." What some friends worry about is that in the easy flush of success Van might be tempted to keep on repeating himself in the showy, romantic repertory he handles so well, neglecting his powers to develop. Says Juilliard Dean Mark Schubart: "He needs to learn...
Marriage Revealed. Jed Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz), 57, box-jawed, brilliant, longtime Broadway director-producer (The Front Page, Our Town, The Crucible); and Beatrice ("Bebe") Allen. 29, lynx-eyed ballet dancer; he for the third time, she for the second; on April 1, in Las Vegas...
...artists could ignore a manager who had such inviting connections. The contracts that piled up in his combine's safes bore the signatures of such eminent names as Menuhin, Heifetz, Elman, Horowitz, Pons, Gigli. Eventually, his ever-spreading ventures were bitterly opposed by such musicians as Leopold Stokowski, who reportedly maneuvered Judson's resignation from the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934, and by the U.S. Government itself, which won an antitrust suit against Columbia Artists and an affiliate last year...