Word: rosalyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fanciers of Johann Sebastian Bach are a disputatious lot given to occult probings into the spirit of the Master. Some like their Bach feathery and ice-edged; some like him broad and deliberate. The undisputed queen of the "broad" Bach school is Chicago-born Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, who for the past five years has been building an impressive reputation in Europe's concert halls (TIME, July 29, 1957). Last week the New York Philharmonic provided J.S.B.'s Manhattan fans with a rare treat: an all-Bach program at which Pianist Tureck appeared as the first female conductor...
Also chosen were Penelope Parkman of Moors Hall and Boston, in Classics; Susan Silberman of Barnard Hall and N.Y., in Fine Arts, and Mrs. Rosalyn L. Kalodny of Brooklyn, N.Y., concentrating in the field of Mathematics...
Such response is routine for U.S.-born Pianist Rosalyn Tureck-in Europe. Although Tureck's name is only vaguely known to most U.S. concertgoers, to European audiences it is fast becoming the word for some of the most authoritative Bach interpretation to be found...
Ever since she went to London four years ago, critics have fallen over themselves in praise. Said the London Times: "It is not possible to exaggerate the artistic value of her performance. When Miss Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach, all talk about the necessity of having a harpsichord to recapture Bach's style seems little short of nonsense." The Tablet: "Without doubt, the greatest Bach pianist of today." After last week's performance, Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad said: "One could exhaust oneself in expressions of praise . . . Her interpretation sets a new norm, a standard for the style...
Piano Preferred. Nobody is more surprised by her spectacular success in Europe than 42-year-old Rosalyn Tureck herself. Born in Chicago of Turkish-Ukrainian parents, she was giving all-Bach recitals by the time she was 15. At 16, as an applicant for a scholarship at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, she staggered the judges by offering to ripple off 16 Bach preludes and fugues. In her second year at Juilliard she learned the Goldberg Variations in five weeks, was later told by the president that it was impossible to play the Variations (unmodified) on a piano...