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...Great Lover. Here and there, a bit of the old good Saroyan peeps through. In a lengthy meditation on the personality of numbers: "3,000 hasn't got that little extra something that is the difference between a great piano player like Richter, for instance, and a poor piano player like my cousin Hoosik, who is actually a lawyer." Or: "You are never under any circumstance to speak discourteously to your mother, as that is not only unAmerican, it is un-Chinese." But the old, pure, wonderfully hammy love for all humanity is lacking. And there...
...then, maybe your Aunt Edna doesn't really like Christmas at all, and you'd better confine your choice to something extra cathedral. Like, perhaps, Sviatoslav Richter, three of whose recordings have recently been released by American firms. Columbia has hit upon the dubious practice of recording concert performances: Richter's Carnegie Hall recital of five Beethoven sonatas last year, and a performance in Sofia, Bulgaria of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Mr. Richter's playing is not enchanced by an impromptu counterpoint of mid-winter colds, thumping tape-recorders, passing BMT trains (in the Carnegie Hall record...
Happily, RCA Victor has issued a studio recording of two of the Beethoven sonatas--the "Funeral March" and the "Appassionata" (LM 2545). Not so happily, Richter's studio performance is but a flabby facsimile of his live...
...freshman team also defeated M.I.T., by a moer decisive 21-15 score. Louis Richter, Larry Christy, and John Hoffman all pinned their opponents while Al Keck and John Mamans gained decisions over their M.I.T. adversaries...
...four men are as different in their relationship to the public as they are in their approach to the piano. While Rubinstein strides the stage with old-fashioned exuberance and verve, Serkin is more nearly the scholar, Horowitz the prophet, and Richter the mystic. At 16, Rubinstein's vision of the good life was "to sit next to a lovely woman in a concert hall and hold her hand and listen to Tchaikovsky"; with a gusto born of love, he has been clutching the hand of the public ever since. And although he has long since banished Tchaikovsky from...