Word: pianists
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...ever to be the managing editor of three Time Inc. publications--PEOPLE, LIFE and TIME--makes him uniquely suited to oversee a wide variety of magazines as well as to advance Time Inc.'s growing interest in television. A man of many interests, Gaines is an accomplished classical pianist, the father of three (soon to be four) children, the author of one book (Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table) and the editor of another (The Lives of the Piano...
DIED. SHURA CHERKASSKY, 84, classical concert pianist; in London. The Odessa-born prodigy brought emotional fire and interpretive panache to the Romantic repertoire of Chopin and Rachmaninoff...
...ERNESTO LECUONA The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 (Bis). Everybody knows Lecuona's most famous composition, Malaguena. But there's much more than that to the prolific Cuban composer, who died in 1963. Fingers ablaze, pianist Thomas Tirino eloquently makes the case...
...foundation on which much classical music was originally made. Over the past 175 years, a dashing, Byronic image was eagerly sought after by many of the important figures in composition and performance. Franz Liszt, devastatingly handsome, was the most famous lover in Europe as well the greatest pianist; women fought over the cigar butts he left on the piano after a concert. Leopold Stokowski, the great conductor who shook Mickey Mouse's hand in Fantasia, used to ensure that the lighting at his concerts highlighted his aquiline countenance and halo of long hair. In short, sex has always sold. What...
Female musicians with a cannily erotic appeal could always be found--in the movies. Think of Ingrid Bergman, who played the femme fatale pianist who broke up Leslie Howard's marriage in the 1939 movie Intermezzo, or Amy Irving, who went mano a mano on the ivories with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980's The Competition. Prominent women instrumentalists have been much rarer in real life. During the first half of the 20th century, the severely beautiful Erica Morini, who died last month at 91, was one of the few who could lay claim to first-rank status. And Morini bristled...