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DIED. EUGENE ISTOMIN, 77, classical pianist; of liver cancer; in Washington. A renowned soloist, he won national acclaim at 17 after debuts in the same week with both the New York and the Philadelphia philharmonic orchestras. He was also celebrated for his later work in a trio with violinist Isaac Stern and cellist Leonard Rose...
...chamber music is also a Circe. For soloists like Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose and Eugene Istomin, it offers a vacation from the old warhorses. For amateurs, there is the simple appeal of playing the pieces, not just listening to them. The Amateur Chamber Music Players, Inc., a group founded in 1946 that promotes evenings of devoted playing, has grown to about 7,000 members. Its directories list names of eager players in almost every state and 60 foreign countries...
...first New York performance in six years and the first classical recital ever presented in the eight-year-old Metropolitan Opera House. Jackie Onassis, Peter Falk and Mikhail Baryshnikov were there. So were Conductor Herbert von Karajan and many other noted musicians like Isaac Stern, Daniel Barenboim and Eugene Istomin...
...first prize includes a series of solo engagements with such orchestras as the Cleveland, Chicago and New York Philharmonic, so it is no wonder that the piano and violin competitions sponsored by Manhattan's Edgar M. Leventritt Foundation have helped launch many an illustrious career. Pianists Eugene Istomin, Gary Graffman and Van Cliburn and Violinists David Nadien and Itzhak Perlman are among the performers who got an early boost from the award. Since the stakes and standards are so high, the judges occasionally pick no winner when they feel that the candidates are not ripe for major concert appearances...
...terribly emo tional about their instruments (which the manufacturers lend out for concert use in exchange for the prestige that the pianists bring). Glenn Gould always played Steinway's No. 174; when it collapsed some years back, he was thrown into a deep depression. Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Jacob Lateiner and Leon Fleisher at one time all craved Old 199, and they passed it around among themselves so that each could have it for major concerts. Dame Myra Hess used to think of her pianos as so many husbands, once cabled Steinway...