Word: horszowski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record their sounds-"truthful witnesses of early musical culture," Curator Emanuel Winternitz calls them-and pipe them into headphones for visitors. To start a series of recitals in the museum's auditorium in which professional musicians will demonstrate the capacities of rare items in the collection, Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski has already played the oldest piano in existence, a 1721 creation by the Florentine Bartolommeo Cristofori...
Alert and active as ever, Cellist Pablo Casals celebrated his 94th birthday in San Juan, P.R., by joining Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski in a performance of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor. Rhapsodized Schneider: "Don Pablo played it as beautifully as he did ten years ago-no, 40 years ago." Later, at the official mansion of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Ferre, it was Casals' turn to hear other musicians give a recital in his honor. "It was all wonderful music," he said. Casals was eminently qualified to be a critic; included in the selections...