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Oates' sharpest focus is on Daughter Enid, 15, a model student, talented pianist and promising gymnast. On page one, the girl locks herself in the bathroom and swallows 47 aspirins. The reason is a recent sexual encounter with an uncle. Felix Stevick is an ex-prizefighter, a local hero with enough low animal cunning to trade in real estate and keep a dirty secret. Incest later turns into a full-blown affair, documented in harsh and steamy detail...
Then the red ON THE AIR sign winks on, and Pianist Rich Dworsky whacks out a couple of yards of barrelhouse. Keillor swings into his theme song, the old Hank Snow tune Hello Love: "Well, look who's comin' through that door/ I think we've met somewhere before...
...field, the firm employs technicians, musicians and other professionals, but the heart of the company is a 25-year- old creative and financial partnership between two men -- Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli -- that is highly unusual, if not unique, in the world of business. Gaudio, 46, is a composer, pianist, arranger and producer who has worked on records with Sinatra, Ross, Diamond, Michael Jackson and Barry Manilow. Valli, 53, is the veteran pop singer whose high-pitched voice (a critic once likened it to an air-raid siren) still packs in audiences at basketball arenas, concert halls, nightclubs and casinos...
Arthur Rubinstein, the late pianist, made dozens of superb Chopin and Schumann recordings, and the very much alive pianist Jorge Bolet has recently come out with an already legendary series of Liszt records. Violinist Itzhak Perlman has demonstrated his mastery over his instrument's repertoire...
...ultimately Horowitz, who wrote a critically-acclaimed book recording his conversations with Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau, focuses not so much on Toscanini as a man or musician as on the millions of Americans who canonized him, taking it as an article of faith that Toscanini was the "greatest conductor of all time...