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...midafternoon, Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy sounded the final chord of a recital at New York's 92nd Street Y.M. & Y.W.H.A. Holding up his watch and resolutely waving off all requests for encores, he declared, "You have been most gracious, but I must go to hear Vladimir Horowitz...
Everyone, or so it seemed, felt the same way. At 70, the unpredictable Ukrainian-born pianist was staging another "historic return"-his first New York performance in six years and the first classical recital ever presented in the eight-year-old Metropolitan Opera House. Jackie Onassis, Peter Falk and Mikhail Baryshnikov were there. So were Conductor Herbert von Karajan and many other noted musicians like Isaac Stern, Daniel Barenboim and Eugene Istomin...
Hard as it may be to believe, the legendary pianist is currently without a recording contract. Much of his time has been spent negotiating for a new one. His deal with Columbia Records expired about 18 months ago. Columbia had reportedly been giving him a $50,000 guarantee per recital LP. That is a moneymaking proposition only if the album sells like a rock record. Unfortunately, not even Horowitz sells that well consistently, although he is convinced that he would, if given more promotional and advertising backing. Also, limiting himself to solo performances, he has not made a concerto recording...
...Kyung-Wha had studied at Juilliard and was a pupil of Ivan Galamian, and Myung-Wha was a pupil of first Leonard Rose and then Gregor Piatigorsky. Myung-Whun was attracted by the more personal, less competitive atmosphere of the smaller Marines College of Music and apprenticed himself to Pianist Nadia Reisenberg and recently also to Conductor Carl Bamberger...
...Rivalry. For the next several years, the three Chungs played together in recital and separately. With the pianist-brother's recent success, however, the consanguineous harmonies of the trio will no longer be heard. In the future, each member will concentrate on independent solo careers...