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DIED. Emil Gilels, 68, burly Soviet pianist of powerhouse virtuosity and delicate nuance who with his 1955 U.S. debut reinaugurated a performers' parade of cultural exchanges between the superpowers that had ended before World War II; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow. A prodigy who gave his first public performance at 13, he was a Communist Party member from 1942 on, and his concerts in the West frequently drew pickets as well as enthusiastic audiences. In an attempt to defuse the protests, Gilels once confessed to Western reporters that, yes, he had played for Nikita Khrushchev--but on an American piano...
Joseph Schwartz: pianist, Sanders Theatre, Harvard...
Robert Taub: pianist, Edward Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, Saturday...
...meeting at Ma Maison restaurant in Los Angeles early in 1983. Something about her encyclopedic knowledge of his life, combined with her gushing admiration, persuaded him to keep talking. Welles recounted his weird childhood. His father was a failed inventor who became an alcoholic, his mother a failed pianist who died when he was nine, and his older brother a schizophrenic. At 18 months, Orson was "discovered" by Dr. Maurice Bernstein, a family friend, who pronounced the tot a genius and supplied him with a violin, paints and a puppet theater, while ardently courting the genius' mother...
Donna Stoering, pianist debut: Friday at Edward Pickman Hall of the Longy School of Music (1 Follen Street, Cambridge), 8 pm, fon ticket info. call...