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...beginning, Thorpe had insisted that he was innocent both of the criminal charges and of any sexual relationship with Scott. In a written statement at the end of the trial, Thorpe called the verdict "totally fair, just and a complete vindication." Then he embraced his wife, a former concert pianist, and his mother, both of whom had attended the trial, and climbed into his old black Humber. He said he intended to take a short rest with his family, away from the glare of publicity...
Solti studied in Budapest with Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, and Ernst von Dohnanyi. Originally a pianist, he has since conducted virtually every major orchestra in the West. He became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1969, and was knighted in 1971, when he left the Royal Opera House...
...mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth last week, what could be more fitting than for Pianist and Gottschalk Fancier Eugene List to take over Carnegie Hall for a "monster concert" in the master's manner? 40 PIANISTS! 400 FINGERS! 880 PIANO KEYS! said the posters. Actually, there were 41 pianists, all current or former students of List's in his more staid guise as a teacher (first at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, now at New York University). Following a sort of platoon system, the performers came and went...
What finer homage to Pianist Arthur Rubinstein on reaching 92? For 17 hours Radio France broadcast Rubinstein's greatest performances, followed by a live concert at Paris' Theatre des Champs Élysées programmed by the maestro himself. Age and approaching blindness apart, Rubinstein was well up to the celebration. "Composing a concert is like composing a menu," he announced, explaining his choices of Debussy, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Schubert. "I believe in musical digestion. If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with...
...other was Pianist Liu Shikun, who performed the Liszt Concerto No. 1 in E-flat. The two Lius were startlingly different in temperament. The pipa player is a genial fellow who entertained the Boston members backstage with Home on the Range ("I learned it for Kissinger's sixth visit"). The pianist, who spent most of the Gang of Four reign in jail, is a man of seething intensity. He came onstage with shaking hands, and shot through the Liszt with authority but blinding speed. At rehearsal, Ozawa had tried without success to slow Liu down. Finally, he said...