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...Marlboro Music Festival, where Pianist Rudolf Serkin plays host to 85 musicians from around the world for the best sessions of chamber music on the summer circuit. The concerts, with such as Cellist Pablo Casals, are held in a 630-seat theater at Marlboro...
Pressed Flowers. After Jane Marsh, the one American who created the greatest fascination and furor was California Pianist Misha Dichter, 20, who placed second to a remarkable young 17-year-old Soviet, Grigori Sokolov. The slight, baby-faced teen-ager played so brilliantly that the jury took the unprecedented step of awarding its compliments not only to him, but to his teacher, Professor L. I. Seligman of Leningrad...
Brilliant as Sokolov was, some judges felt that Dichter was incomparable. During the second round, he played the Schubert Sonata in A Major and Stravinsky's Petrushka in a dazzling bravura style that prompted Soviet Pianist Lev Vlasenko (who ran second to Cliburn in 1958) to cheer him as "the best musician among the piano finalists...
...Lucie Bigelow Rosen. A sprightly woman in her late 70s, she is the widow of Walter Rosen, a multimillionaire investment banker who built Caramoor (from the Italian for "dear love") in 1930 and spent the rest of his life filling it with art treasures. He was an amateur pianist, and she made music on the theremin (an electronic instrument that is played by waving the hands over a magnetic field to produce strange, mellifluous wailings...
...intimations of psychological complexity stop right there. Having long since abandoned a famous erotic poet on grounds that he gave too much of himself to his stanzas, Gertrud is about to leave her husband (Bendt Rothe), a lawyer with Cabinet-level aspirations. Briefly, she tries a flighty playboy-pianist who decides that "the complete absorption of one another" as the sine qua non of sensual pleasure is not for him. Life ends, for Gertrud, in white-haired seclusion, though she still declares her credo to be love above...