Word: recitalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last summer. Pianist de Groot was a two-handed recitalist of solid international reputation. Then, during a recording session, he felt a sudden cramp in his right hand, was barely able to finish playing Liszt's Melancholy Waltz. Although X rays disclosed no abnormality in the hand, neither cortisone nor treatment by a neurologist was able to restore full use to De Groot's fingers. He set about learning what left-hand compositions he could find, soon decided that there were not enough to keep a concert career going...
Sheldon Lubow '60, a student of Claudio Arrau, will be the recitalist this Saturday at 2:45 p.m. in a concert at the Gardiner Museum. His program will include a Bach Prelude and Fugue, Chopin's "Funeral March" Sonata, and the last movement from the Samuel Barber Sonata...
...Last week's music noticeably differed, however, from the songs the siren sang in The Little Show and Three's a Crowd; her present program-some of it suggesting what might be termed musical American primitives-sets her where the nightclub singer merges (or clashes) with the recitalist...
...Zabaleta is too well established to suffer from the silence of the Manhattan press. Basque-born (he now makes his home in Puerto Rico) Zabaleta has been a student of the harp since seven, a recitalist since 22. After early successes in Europe, he turned to Latin America, and has made more than 1,000 appearances there, but only after an interval of bad luck: he had barely started when he caught a fungus infection in his fingers. For four years he was limited to teaching (in the Caracas conservatory). But "I do not have the teacher's mentality...