Word: iturbi
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...Forest Hills, N.Y., Violinist Stephan Hero, having settled his two children in his own folks' home, asked for and got police protection against "possible acts of reprisal." He had flown them from the Beverly Hills (Calif.) home of his father-in-law, Pianist Jose Iturbi, who used to fight him for the children's custody. (Mrs. Hero committed suicide last year.) Pianist Iturbi, in far-off Paris at the moment, had nothing to say to the press. Sighed his manager: "Mr. Iturbi is always haunted by his son-in-law's stories...
...pianists who rank with Rubinstein in the estimation of critics don't get around much any more (the great Josef Hofmann is 71, and in semiretirement; Artur Schnabel, 65, unexcelled at Beethoven, plays only a few concerts a year). And Vladimir Horowitz and Jose Iturbi, who ring the cash register as loudly as Rubinstein in individual concerts, don't make the long tours he does...
...Schubert wrote at 31), Le Sacre du Printemps, which Stravinsky wrote at 30. It was the first time that 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky had ever let a guest conduct his Boston Orchestra for a whole concert in New York. Carnegie Hall was so packed that even Pianist Jose Iturbi had to stand...
What gave M-G-M an even hungrier feeling was the sensational sale (some 800,000) of Pianist Jose Iturbi's recording of Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat from A Song To Remember. But most of the gravy from this platter went to RCA, which made it. M-G-M decided to cash in itself on recordings by its stars...
Holiday in Mexico--at Loew's State and Orpheum--All the ingredients of a mediocre musical in this Iturbi-Pidgeon-McDowell opus and it turns out to be just that. Jane Powell lifts the level just a little...