Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alexander Kelberine, 36, concert pianist; of an overdose of sleeping tablets, while his wife's divorce suit was pending, after a concert characterized by a critic as showing "not lack of musicianship, so much as a psychic turmoil''; in Manhattan...
...winter of 1928 a sallow, jittery, 23-year-old Russian pianist named Vladimir Horowitz made a sensational Manhattan debut at a Carnegie Hall concert under the baton of gouty Sir Thomas Beecham. So steely brilliant and ballistically precise was his performance of Tschaikowsky's B Flat Minor Concerto that Manhattan critics hailed him as "the most successful artist to appear before the American public in a decade." For Pianist Horowitz that success was the first swell of a long crescendo. He was soon one of the biggest box-office draws in U. S. music...
Then, at the height of his career, in 1935, Pianist Horowitz cracked up. Soon after leaving the U. S. for a year's European tour he was laid low by an appendectomy complicated by phlebitis. For months he was unable to touch the piano. For two years he convalesced at his home in Switzerland. Only in 1938 was he able to get back to a concert platform, and then only for a few scattered recitals in European capitals. But last week, on a new U. S. tour, Pianist Horowitz made a comeback at Carnegie Hall. Manhattan concertgoers proved they...
...Said Pianist Horowitz of his hibernation: "I think I really began to live then. For years I had been playing constantly...
Last week in Baltimore Brazilian Pianist Guiomar Novaěs and Conductor Hans Kindler's National Symphony gave one of Villa-Lobos' biggest works its first U. S. hearing. Called Momo Precoce (The Young Momus) after the ancient Greek god of ridicule, the composition depicted the sights & sounds of Brazil's annual, three-day-long "Children's Carnival." After listening to its naïve, childlike jingle themes, half-focused in a turbulent hubbub of flashy orchestration, Baltimoreans rated it one of the most bumptiously original pieces they had heard in a long time...