Word: lorin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lorin Hollander is a poised, redheaded 15-year-old who collects tropical fish, loves water-skiing and plays the piano with the aplomb of a seasoned virtuoso. Word about Lorin has been spreading in the musical world since the evening, three years ago, when he sat down with Manhattan's Little Orchestra Society as a last-minute substitute soloist and dashed off Ravel's tortuous Concerto in G Major as if he owned it. Last week, impassive as ever, Lorin appeared on the Telephone Hour (NBCTV) playing Chopin's Waltz in C-Sharp Minor and an excerpt...
When he walks to the piano, with his shambling, coltish stride, and peers owl-eyed at the audience, Lorin looks like anything but the image of a dashing musician. But his technique is close to faultless, his articulation razor-sharp, his attack bold and secure. Moreover, he can shape individual musical ideas out of a kind of interior logic without the bolstering of exaggerated tempos or showy dynamics. Last week he made both his Saint-Saëns and Chopin sound beautifully and inevitably correct...
Some of his musical maturity Lorin gets from growing up with the sound of a violin in his ear: his father is a violinist, a former assistant concertmaster for Toscanini with the NBC Symphony. Lorin got his first violin when he was three ("I smashed it"), went on to the piano when he was five, and in his first day at the keyboard went through an entire book of beginner's exercises. By the time he was ten, Lorin was playing recitals, and he has been hard at it ever since. He scored his second big recital triumph last...
...Hollander home at Hollis, L.I., Lorin practices up to seven hours a day, somnolently watched by a cat named Cello that "especially likes Schumann." A student at Manhattan's Professional Children's School, Lorin takes his lessons with him when he is touring. Some day, he thinks, he would like to be a "wellrounded" musician on the order of Leonard Bernstein, whom he idolizes "except for his popular music-I can't appreciate that." Meantime, the problem in the Hollander family is to find a house with an extra room: father and son find they cannot practice...
...world's best-known batons were wagging last week. Besangon's annual International Music Festival had invited conducting stars such as Pierre Monteux and Andre Cluytens. But the attention of most festival goers was focused on a tanned, tense young newcomer: 28-year-old American Conductor Lorin Maazel...