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...Ankara, Turkey, he is remembered for still another quality. Playing for a packed house, Katchen was nonplused to see the whole crowd get up and walk out, but he improvised for several minutes until everybody returned. Absorbed...
...Brahms, Katchen had not noticed that the chandeliers had been swaying. Reported Turkish headlines next day: HERO PIANIST REMAINS CALM DURING EARTHQUAKE. AVERTS PANIC...
After eight years abroad, Julius Katchen is convincing European audiences that he is not merely one of the best of young American pianists but, more simply, that he is one of the best of all pianists living today. Last month, after listening to him in a program of Beethoven, including the difficult 55-minute "Diabelli" Variations, the London Times granted him the full range of pianistic talents: "Demoniac violence . . . ethereal cantabile . . . the phenomenal technique of a virtuoso and the vision of a seer." Amsterdam's Het Parool called his playing "sublime ... an overwhelming experience...
Philosophy First. Although he has successfully stormed Europe's capitals, Julius Katchen is little known in his own country. The son of a pianist-mother and amateur-violinist father, he made his debut as an eleven-year-old prodigy with the Philadelphia Orchestra and played with the best U.S. orchestras and in solo recitals until...
...that point, Katchen père put his foot down on the budding concert career, sent the boy to high school and Haverford College. Julius buckled down to his studies, majored in philosophy and literature, became a Phi Beta Kappa and won the scholarship (awarded by the French government) that took him to Paris. In 1946 he played at the first UNESCO Festival and, with a pocketful of fine notices, set off on the rounds of European and Near Eastern music centers...