Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also honored were: William G. Bowen, the president of Princeton University; Rudolf Serkin, the concert pianist, Masao Maruyama; a Japanese historian; and Lloyd C. Elam, a nationally known psychiatrist...
Rudolf Serkin, the concert pianist and recording artist, received the only Doctor of Music awarded today. His citation: "A many-sided artist--teacher, interpreter, performer; his deep knowledge and passionate devotion to his calling encompass the generations and happily affect both listeners and learners...
LEANDRO ACONCHA: One day at his home in Fuengirola, Spain, when he was three, Leandro heard a tune on TV and asked his father to teach it to him. Papa Roberto, an ex-concert pianist from Colombia who had moved to Spain to go into real estate, led the boy to the piano, picked out the melody, and stood amazed as Leandro repeated it perfectly...
...late supper: buxom Emmy Destinn, one of the greatest operatic dramatic sopranos of the time (1907), and the slender young Polish pianist and boulevardier Arthur Rubinstein. Rubinstein gallantly began to discuss music...
Morgan offended the pianist-not just because "one of the richest men in the world" came late to a dinner-recital party but because he did not pay a cent to hear Rubinstein play. Arthur was then penniless. What Rubinstein remembers today is the financier's nose...