Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allegro. He is born on Musikalnyi Peruelok - Music Street - in Kiev. His uncle is a music critic, his mother a brilliant amateur pianist. At the age of ten he memorizes the piano scores of Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Parsifal. Clearly, little Vladimir is a musical prodigy...
Married. Maria Cooper, 28, willowy daughter of the late Gary Cooper; and Byron Janis, 38, Pittsburgh pianist lionized by the Russians during 1960 and 1962 tours; he for the second time; in Woodbridge, Conn...
Today he lives in London. "It is not a question of systems," he explains. "It is a question of family. I am still a Soviet citizen and I love my country, but my wife [an Icelandic pianist whom he had met in Moscow] prefers to live in England." Nevertheless, Ashkenazy has not been back to Russia since 1963. His parents have not seen their oldest grandchild, Vladimir Jr., 41, in three years; they have never seen their infant granddaughter Nadya. Still, alone of all the Soviet artists who prefer the Western side of the Iron Curtain, Ashkenazy refuses to defect...
DENNY ZEITLIN is both a pianist and an M.D. in psychiatric training who likes to analyze his music ("I attempted to build layer upon layer of tension to generate an organic shape"). In Live at the Trident (Columbia), he plays standards and some pieces of his own in a wide variety of moods and forms. Although he pays allegiance to Ornette Coleman as the most significant jazzman of the decade, Zeitlin himself plays it much safer and at times seems to be simply entertaining at the cocktail hour...
...performed for Queen Elizabeth II while he was special assistant (from 1958 to 1960) to his cousin, John Hay Whitney, then Ambassador to Britain. When the Symingtons went to Washington, he began entertaining foreign visitors at informal songfests, usually in duet with his petite, chestnut-haired wife. An accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, Sylvia Symington has worked as a volunteer music teacher to Washington slum children, in 1960 organized a group of women to help wives of African diplomats overcome their awe of bustling Washington. Proficient in French, she even accompanied her wards to the dentist's office to relay...