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...Lewis M. Horowitz, co-chairman of the coalition of residents opposed to the power plant, said yesterday the protest march and the "people's injunction" were an attempt to convince Harvard to voluntarily stop constructing the plant...
...invitation to play in the Carter White House came soon after the Inauguration, but Pianist Vladimir Horowitz took a rain check. For his second stint at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (he first played there in 1931 for Herbert Hoover), the maestro wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his U.S. debut. And so he did, last week, thundering out fortissimi to an audience packed with the likes of Isaac Stern, Andrés Segovia and Mstislav Rostropovich. Carter, recalling the cherished Horowitz recording he had as a midshipman, said of his guest artist: "A true national treasure...
Beautiful sound and color are what Horowitz is really all about. Form and a unifying tempo matter less to him, and there were dallyings and wanderings in the second and third movements that would have been considered eccentric in any other pianist. The performance was marvelously spontaneous and without calculation. It was markedly freer than the way Horowitz used to play the work, but in its own way it was breathtaking, certifying that one of the most unpredictable musicians of our time is still not set in his musical habits. Probably he never will...
...guru to such American composers as Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson was correct about Schuyler Chapin. She was also right when she suggested that he might do well in music management. Chapin became road manager for Violinist Jascha Heifetz. He held Vladimir Horowitz's hand when the volatile pianist returned to the recording studios in 1962, and to the concert stage in 1965. For three turbulent years he occupied the most prestigious chair in opera, general manager of the Metropolitan...
...trip. After this you will pay for your own." Later, as an executive for Columbia Records, Chapin proudly sent off a $20,000 royalty fee to Igor Stravinsky. The maestro showed up and slapped the check down on Chapin's desk. "Thank you for my tip!" he sneered. Horowitz might still be shuddering in the wings of Carnegie Hall, were it not for his representative's ministrations. "I took him gently by the shoulders and turned him 180 degrees, put my hand on his back, and gently propelled...