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...remarkable series of concerts in Petrograd, Russia, in 1913, it will, by comparison, illuminate the defects and virtues of the men who stand with Rubinstein as the greatest living players of the piano. The list is not long; it includes only three more: Rudolf Serkin, Vladimir Horowitz and Sviatoslav Richter...
...espresso joint on Third Street, or on the faculty of East South Dakota A. & M." Last week, U.S. book publishers took cognizance of O'Hara's benediction for professionalism and tapped three veteran writers for the $1,000 National Book Awards. Honored were Novelist Conrad Richter, 70, for his tenth novel, The Waters of Kronos (TIME, April 18, 1960), an old man's fevered attempt to distill the lessons of his forgotten youth; Journalist William L. Shirer, 57, for his massive (1,245 PP) study of Hitler's Germany, The Rise and Fall of the Third...
...lucky few who bought tickets weeks ago, the coming week will include what will probably be two of the most memorable events of the Boston concert season: two piano recitals by Sviatoslav Richter...
Brahms: Concerto No. 2 (Sviatoslav Richter, piano; the Chicago Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor). In this first Richter recording made in the U.S., the great Russian pianist gives a performance as taut as a bent bow. At the end of the session, Richter turned to Conductor Leinsdorf and said: "Please explain to the orchestra that I could do no better." Nor could anyone...
...Richter's Prokofiev was so strikingly different from that of other pianists that it seemed at first like the revelation of a new musical personality. A longtime friend of the Soviet composer, Richter managed to illuminate the lyric qualities usually obscured by the percussive Prokofiev style. Even in the most frenzied and violent passages-notably during Sonata No. 6, when he flailed the keyboard with a clenched fist-Richter drew forth a tone that was warm instead of strident, as full of shadings as a guttering candle flame. Later in the week Richter offered programs including Haydn, Schumann, Debussy...