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...time it took her to realize that in turning down Yale for Harvard she had made a serious mistake. Almost too late, she discovered that the Music Department here had neither the facilities nor the attitude to help further her life's ambition: to become a concert pianist...
...Mayo Tsuzuki is majoring in Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the hours she once spent at the piano she now spends in the basement of the Science Center disentangling the mysteries of A.M. 110. She insists she gave up any ideas about becoming a concert pianist before she came to Harvard. But her almost wistful ambivalence about that decision, her commitment to future performing, and even the mementos that crowd her Canaday room, all speak of regret that she cannot at least continue to practice regularly. She admits that if she had arrived here last September resolved on pursuing...
Kenneth Bookstein spent most of his summer at Interlochen Music Festival breaking into the women's dormitory. His motives were really quite innocent, however--he simply wanted to practice on the building's nine-foot grand. Now one Harvard pianist ponders Bookstein's reputed eight-hour practicing binges here: "He must have made some sort of deal with the department secretary who controls the keys...
...ultimate decision to defect was made while Orchestra Conductor Maxim Shostakovich, 42, and his son Dmitri, 19, a concert pianist, were on tour with the U.S.S.R. Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra in West Germany. Though Maxim Shostakovich seemed emotionally strained as he conducted a composition by his father, few if any in the audience the Bavarian city of Fürth suspected what was afoot. During a post-concert dinner party in a nearby Nuremberg hotel, the Shostakoviches eluded the Soviet functionaries guarding the exits and slipped away to the local police station. There Maxim announced their intention to stay...
Egger bankrolled, Eicher produced, and in 1970 the first record on ECM was pressed: Free at Last by the superb pianist Mai Waldron. Only 500 copies of the record were originally turned out, but 14,300 eventually sold. Now an initial ECM pressing averages 10,000 albums for its established acts and 6,000 for the three or four unknowns it introduces every year...