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Critic Cassidy has often taken off a performer's hide with such vigor that some victims, including Actor Maurice Evans and Pianist Eugene Istomin, have vowed never to appear in Chicago again. But she has worked even harder to put over shows she liked, e.g., The Glass Menagerie, whose merit she was one of the first to spot...
...Tall, pretty U.S. Cellist Madeleine Foley was canceling most of her engagements in order to remain. Said she: "Why should I go home and play when he may die some day? I'm going to stay here as long as I can borrow the money." Young Pianist Eugene Istomin was renting a villa so that he could study with Casals until next December...
Perhaps Together. Veteran Violinist Alexander Schneider, who arranged the festival (and the recording of it by Columbia), could not explain exactly how Casals had done it-"A million words are of no use." Young Pianist Eugene Istomin was more articulate. His admiration did not stem from "the musical facts I may learn from Casals. It is the reinforcement of an attitude that is so inspiring. He stands for everything that is noble and sublime in music, and you feel unafraid to express it yourself after you have met this...
...coat pocket. Along with Bohemian-born Rudolf Serkin, he is in the middle generation of top pianists, a step below such artistic and box office champions as Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Artur Rubinstein, and a step above such youngsters as Eugene List, William Kapell and Eugene Istomin. He is one of the most tireless of them...