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Because Paul Horowitz has always loved gadgets, and because he had always wondered how much arsenic was on the skin of unwashed apples, he didn't notice the two graduate students talking as he leaned over his newest creation, the proton microscope. They were impatient to try their own more traditional experiments--analyses of ancient pottery shards--and they had driven from MIT to Lincoln Laboratories in Lexington earlier that morning expecting that Horowitz would not be there, that his new gadget would be free. Horowitz, who had come on impulse from his home three minutes away, did not seem...
...Horowitz was concentrating on a helium-filled acrylic box connected by a series of pipes to an enormous Van de Graaf generator. The generator was splitting hydrogen molecules to produce protons, which were accelerated down the pipes and into the box. There the stream smashed into the apple skin, turning the helium in its path an eerie purple. The apple skin was browning and curling up under the bombardment. "Wow," Horowitz said. "This baby is taking quite a beating...
...Sonata No. 32, Op. 111 (Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy; London, $6.98). There is no halfway point in attitudes toward late Beethoven. For performers and listeners alike, it is either the ultimate in communicative art or too personal and troubled to share with a large audience. Rubinstein and Horowitz subscribe to the latter view and avoid both the music and the problem. Even a comparative youngster like Cliburn has kept his interpretive thoughts on the matter largely to himself. Fortunately there is Ashkenazy, the finest all-round pianist in music today, a man who is possessed of Schnabel's heart...
...time has been spent negotiating for a new one. His deal with Columbia Records expired about 18 months ago. Columbia had reportedly been giving him a $50,000 guarantee per recital LP. That is a moneymaking proposition only if the album sells like a rock record. Unfortunately, not even Horowitz sells that well consistently, although he is convinced that he would, if given more promotional and advertising backing. Also, limiting himself to solo performances, he has not made a concerto recording in more than 20 years. One from him now could well become, as the trade puts...
Records have been Horowitz's principal and often his only link with his public for years. It is part of musical legend that in 1953, at the peak of his career, Horowitz retired from the concert scene for twelve years. He returned in triumph in 1965 at Carnegie Hall-that album did sell like a rock record-then once again quit the stage in 1969. Explaining his sabbaticals, Horowitz talks in terms of the need for emotional and artistic refueling. "To make a break does purify," he says. It also starts rumormongers talking, as Horowitz is well aware. "People...