Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the whopping cash prize went various other rewards: a recital in Carnegie Hall, a concert in London's Royal Festival Hall, a European tour, an S. Hurok-sponsored tour of the U.S., Canada and Latin America. For a time, Pianist Votapek did not know whether he could accept any of them: he was scheduled to be drafted, did not learn until week's end that he had been deferred for a year...
When Vladimir Horowitz walked from the Carnegie Hall stage into retirement nine years ago, he continued to talk for a while with his audience through recordings. Then, because of differences with RCA Victor, the recordings also stopped, and the pianist's worshipful fans were left to guess the results of the painstaking restudy of piano literature that he had undertaken. Part of the answer is on a new Columbia LP. Officially released last week on the occasion of Horowitz' 58th birthday, it stirred such interest that it had sold some 15,000 copies by week...
...them Horowitz triumphantly demonstrates that whatever it is that keeps him from the concert stage, it is surely not failing artistic power. The glittering, steely technique is still there; Horowitz can play the piano with a strength and a seething air of controlled violence that no other pianist can match. But he also seems less concerned with surfaces, more concerned with the simplicities that lie beneath them for a reflective...
...there was the spectacular opening of Manhattan's new Philharmonic Hall; then off to Washington for the premiere of Irving Berlin's new musical, Mr. President; then back to town and the Maisonette Room of the St. Regis for something on the cool side-the debut of Pianist Peter Duchin, 25, son of the late Eddy Duchin, whose soft-toned renderings of pop classics were the rage with the last generation's carriage trade. Among those on hand to launch the new chip were Peter's godparents, former New York Governor and Mrs. Averell Harriman...
Born. To Ingmar Bergman, 44, Sweden's master of metaphysical cinema, and his fourth wife, Kabi Laretei. 40, an Estonian-born pianist: their first child (his sixth), a son; in Stockholm...