Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student of famed Hungarian-born Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where, recalls Milstein, the young Heifetz was already established as "the Prince of Wales of fiddlers." A post-conservatory concert success in Russia, Milstein left for Paris in 1925, gave concerts with an old Russian friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. It was not until after World War II, when he married and settled down in Manhattan, that he began to build a reputation as something more than an extraordinarily gifted virtuoso. Milstein is still a master of the bravura composers-Max Bruch, Sarasate-but he has found...
...performance that called forth a classic exchange. Violinist Mischa Elman: "It's hot in here." Pianist Leopold Godowsky: "Not for pianists...
Music for Sing to Me Through Open Windows was composed by Thomas G. Beveridge '59, who was chosen "class odist." He is also the writer of a one-act opera which was produced here and later shown on WGBH-TV. While at Harvard, Beveridge was pianist for the Glee Club...
...scatter a few deer. Then, turning from riding breeches to a white satin sheath skirt, a black overblouse and diamond earrings, Jackie was hostess at another of the White House parties she has initiated for performers of the fine arts. The guest of honor: famed Composer and occasional Pianist Igor Stravinsky, 79, a native of Russia who has been a U.S. citizen since 1946. The guests, including New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Chicago Merchant and Publisher Marshall Field Jr., and Jackie's sister Princess Radziwill, met in the Kennedys' private apartment for dinner and cocktails. Said...
Weary from Washington rehearsals of his opera Oedipus Rex, Stravinsky excused himself at 11 p.m. In an evening devoted to music, no one had performed, so the First Lady pointed her baton to a pianist-gone-wrong, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. Salinger, who at one time was considered a sort of musical prodigy, obligingly sat at the piano, ripped off a composition he had written himself...