Word: leningraders
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...artists satisfy our nostalgia for that lost phoenix of Modernist desire, an art that was both experimental and politically effective. To this day, one can't look at the Constructivist designs for agitprop events -- the red panels of Natan Altman's bold transformation of the huge Palace Square in Leningrad for the first birthday of the October Revolution, or the steel-truss tribune designed by Lissitzky to carry Lenin forward like a high diver over the heads of a crowd -- without a feeling of exhilaration: this, not the bureaucratic and murderous reality of institutional Marxism, is what it was meant...
When Heinrich Neuhaus, the great piano teacher of Gilels and Richter, heard Ugorski play at the age of 17 he said, "Not talented as a pupil, does not absorb influences. But a gifted pianist." Ugorski worked his way up to an appointment as a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory. He worked there until 1990, when he finally emigrated to Germany...
...Leningrad-born Anatol Ugorski has emerged from the eclipse of his motherland's shadow. He has signed his first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, recording works by Beethoven (Diabelli Variations), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), and Stravinsky (Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka...
Ugorski, born in 1942, spent all of his life until 1990 in Leningrad, where he was assigned the piano as his instrument by the examining board of the music school for children. Ugorski wonders even today whether it was only by chance that he came into contact with the instrument. His talent was imminent, but his creativity with regard to technique drew heavy criticism...
When Heinrich Neuhaus the great piano teacher of Gilels and Richter, heard Ugorski play at the age of 17 he said, "Not talented as a pupil, does not absorb influences. But a gifted pianist." Ugorski worked his way up to an appointment as a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory. He worked there until 1990, when he finally emigrated to Germany...