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...succession to the British throne, has an excellent wartime record (Grenadier Guards), an elegant estate at Leeds, a lively interest in music, and is chairman of some very prestigious committees. The late Queen Mary, King George VI and Queen Mother Elizabeth all attended his 1949 wedding to talented Pianist Maria Stein, who subsequently bore him three sons...
Seven years ago, the Ford Foundation gave Pianist Jacob Lateiner a $5,000 grant to commission a new work. "Being very lazy by nature," he explains, "I did not want to spend time learning a new piece that I could only play a few times because of its novelty. I wanted to strive for something, no matter how difficult it might be, that would be valuable decades from now." So Lateiner asked Elliott Carter, one of modern music's most original and complex composers, to write a piano concerto...
Carter completed the piece only a year ago, and then Lateiner, a deeply cerebral pianist (TIME, Aug. 19), worked on it doggedly for nine months. He postponed last fall's scheduled première for two months so that he could practice it some more, at one point holed up in the Steinway warehouse in Boston for six hours a day. Finally, last week Carter's concerto was given its world premiere, with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony. Lateiner's homework paid off. He played with a flair and a command that are rare in such...
...attended rehearsals, chatted with visitors in three languages, and finally paraded ecstatically through congratulatory mobs in Spoleto's town square on the night of his birthday. Musically, the program equaled anything that Bell was ever able to do in the studio, with Sviatoslav Richter as the pianist in the Shostakovich Quintet and Zubin Mehta conducting the Verdi Requiem and a stunning new production of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande...
...Pianist Van Cliburn played at Michigan's Interlochen National Music Camp, recorded two Chopin sonatas in a New York studio, packed the Hollywood Bowl for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, and ate a folksy dinner with his parents and friends at their home in Shreveport, La. In between times, he mused about himself, his fame and his music: "The role of a concert artist in a concert hall will never be eclipsed...